asms - Incorrect Function

[Guest]

A friend purchased a new Dell E520 with a copy of Windows Vista. A month
later he's decided that Vista isn't for him and wants to install XP and asked
me to help. Because this is a SATA machine I've puchased a USB floppy disk
and put the storage drivers onto it. He has purchased a copy of WinXP Pro +
SP2 (okay more money than sense but there you go).

So...

Once the install moves into the GUI phase it comes up with the message:

E\I386\ASMS
Incorrect Function

I've burnt about a dozen CD's, and even tried our corporate Disk and it
always comes up with that message. I don't know what ASMS does and wondered
if it was a chipset driver problem. Anybody give me a hint what the problem
is?

Thanks for any replies.

 

[Guest]

- Need to add that if I run it again the set log includes this gem:
"SXS.DLL:Syntax error in manifest or policy file
i386\asms\52\policy\msft\windows\networking\rtcdll\rtcdll.man on line 0

If that adds anything to the equation

 

[Renke Holert [MVP]]

Hi,

just had the same issue with an ISO burned with a newer version of Nero.
Using a CD burned by a computer using another version of Nero fixed the
issue.

BTW While working on this issue I disabled also the legacy Floppy support in
the BIOS.

Renke Holert
http://www.holert.com