I bought all my hardware from newegg.com, assembled, powered on, great! Lights, fans, everything works
put in XP install disc and started install, during setup I got an error for this file "usrvpa.dll", it prompted me to retry but I got nothing. Only other option is to skip, and it warns you that if you skip, XP may not run properly. Well I had to do something so I skipped, it finished and installed XP, but...everything seems to be going wrong...
pretty much everwhere i go from there, i have trouble. Tried to install SP1a from a disk and it said it had a corrupt file, tried it a few more times and it finally worked. Stuck my Abit mobo driver disk in...seemed to install everything fine, but sound isn't working, internet connection isn't working.
another strange thing is that i have a 250gb hard drive, but the OS only recognizes 132 gb...what's up with that?
I also tried installing the video driver for my ATI Radeon 2900PRO, again, hit or miss whether things actually install properly. Once i thought I had it installed properly, i tried installing a game. It'll start the install, everything will look good and then all of the sudden the PC boots. I go back into Windows, it allows me to continue the install...then i power up the game after its done and the game gets some error and shuts down within a few minutes.
What's going on? This is a disaster. Is it hardware or XP?
put in XP install disc and started install, during setup I got an error for this file "usrvpa.dll", it prompted me to retry but I got nothing. Only other option is to skip, and it warns you that if you skip, XP may not run properly. Well I had to do something so I skipped, it finished and installed XP, but...everything seems to be going wrong...
pretty much everwhere i go from there, i have trouble. Tried to install SP1a from a disk and it said it had a corrupt file, tried it a few more times and it finally worked. Stuck my Abit mobo driver disk in...seemed to install everything fine, but sound isn't working, internet connection isn't working.
another strange thing is that i have a 250gb hard drive, but the OS only recognizes 132 gb...what's up with that?
I also tried installing the video driver for my ATI Radeon 2900PRO, again, hit or miss whether things actually install properly. Once i thought I had it installed properly, i tried installing a game. It'll start the install, everything will look good and then all of the sudden the PC boots. I go back into Windows, it allows me to continue the install...then i power up the game after its done and the game gets some error and shuts down within a few minutes.
What's going on? This is a disaster. Is it hardware or XP?