My girlfriend has a little problem...
...well her computer does anyway.
I just recently bought her parts to build her a new computer and I'm having a little trouble getting the OS installed. I'm trying to put XP on her machine and this is what happens:
I boot up with the CD, set up my partitions and then format C:\ with NTFS and then it gets to the screen where it says windows is now loading files it needs for setup or whatever. Anyway, everytime it gets to that part at around 18% finished it gives me some error saying that it couldn't load some file and that the disc image is incorrect or something. It asks if I want to either retry to load the file or skip it. I do retry and it continues. Sometimes this happens a second time before finishing. It says that the CD might be bad or that there might be a hardware problem. I know that the CD is ok because I get the same thing when trying to load win2k, so it has to be hardware, but I'm not sure what. So then when it gets to the setup part (When Microsoft tells you about all the new cool "features" of XP) it always either crashes or gives me an error saying windows could not load. When I tried it with win2k I get a BSOD that says something like paging fault error or something like that. Anyone have any ideas?
Here's her hardware:
Celeron 1.1A
Asus TUSI-M with the Sis630 chipset (BIOS version 1011, there is a 1013 version that I'm going to try)
128MB Micron Cas2 PC133 RAM
40GB Western Digital ATA100 7200RMP
built in audio/video/lan
Codegen case w/300Watt Codegen PSU
Lite-On 52X CD-ROM
I think that's all the relevant hardware. I'm not sure what the problem is, the new BIOS may do the trick, but if not then it could be the HDD or the CD-ROM or possibly the PSU, but I really don't know. I'm pretty sure I have everything in the BIOS set up correctly (There really isn't much in the BIOS on this board) I don't think the HDD is bad though because it formatted fine. I really don't know. Any ideas? Thanks.