Xp Home Installation - BSOD or other fatal error

[Carl]

Once I'm well into the setup of XP Home, I get one of two
errors:

If I install Win98 first, and run setup from CD while in
98, I get this fatal error:
"syssetup.inf layout is missing or corrupted".

Note: there is no syssetup.inf on either the c: drive or
on the installation CD.

If I install XP onto a clean disk, I get a BSOD

New Asus MB + Intel P-4 2.4gHz CPU, 256 or 512 DDR 2700.

I've tried swapping memory (yes, the memory matches Asus'
specs) and video cards

I can install Win 98 successfully.

 

[Rich Barry]

Carl, try deleting and creating a new partition and formatting with the
WinXP CD.

 

[Carl]

Oh, I've done that several times.

FWIW, I have now successfully installed Win98SE and Win2K
Pro.

 

[Rich Barry]

Carl, what's the Specs on the Power Supply?

 

[Rich Barry]

Carl, is the XP CD a retail version? If it's a OEM version it won't
work.

 

[Carl]

Rich -

The power supply is 300W.
The XP Home is OEM. You mentioned that OEM "won't work"?
Please explain.

I have now successfully loaded Win98SE and Win2K Pro.

I also tried to load XP Pro from 2 different known-good
CDs (site licensed). They also BSOD.

I've reformatted the drive several times - as both NTFS
and as FAT32.

Depending on the variables described above, XP BSODs at
different places.