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More info?)
As I stated earlier before I saw this post, this board is compatible
with XP. It sounds to me like you may have bad hardware components. I
am leaning toward a bad power supply since it seems the CD-ROM is acting
up, the RAM is acting up, and everything is unstable. What exactly are
the specs of this machine?
Also, this is extremely critical: Do you have everything set up properly
in the BIOS? Make sure your CPU settings are correct, make sure your
drives are set to the proper DMA Setting, etc.
Here is what I would do if I were you. I would go here and download
Bart's PE:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Use this to make a new CD of your XP install CD. What this will do is
make copying the files to the HD more efficient and hopefully the
Install will go better. You can copy all of your XP CD to the harddrive
and install it from there instead of reading off the CD which will make
sure you get a good copy of the files.
It sounds like it wasn't copying the files fast enough from the CD-ROM
drive. What speed is your drive? I have installed XP with a 16x CD ROM
drive and it gives me the same error a few times every 10 minutes or so.
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Nathan McNulty
Joseph wrote:
> Well after I got my PC put togather I was installing XP
> Pro and while installation error messages like such-n-such
> file could not be copied and gave me an option to retry or
> escape to skip the file. This went on for many files.
> Finally when I got XP installed. It was very unstable. So
> I tried to reinstall XP again and it started going to blue
> screen error messages and would not let me install XP. I
> tried 98SE. I had the same kind of problems though they
> were not as sever as XP error messages. 98SE was unstable
> often going to blue screen messages. Then I changed the
> RAM as I have tried changed everything else except RAM.
> This time it seem to be stable with occational hangs. I
> checked the XP hardware compatability list on Microsoft's
> web site and I could not find Abit's VT7 Mobo listed. I
> got disappointed. So I thought Mictosoft might have some
> patches or fixes for this. Could you please suggest me a
> good solution please.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>That board should be XP compatible. What is the problem
>
> that you are having?
>
>>"Joseph" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It has been a very long struggle to load XP-Pro on my
>>>newly assembled PC. I used a Abit VT7 Mobo and a Abit
>>>Radeon 9200SE-DT Video card and a Corsair 512Mb,PC3200,
>>>CL2.5 DDR RAM. I have just found that the Mobo Abit VT7
>
> is
>
>>>not XP compatable. I would really appriciate if some
>
> one
>
>>>can find me a fix to install XP-Pro on my new PC.