BSOD & post intall errors

[brad hill]

Just put together what I thought was a simple PC. Matsonic mobo with onboard
graphics/ sound. Plumbed in an Athlon 1400 XP, fan, old CD Rom drive, HDD
and FDD and 256 of ram.

Fired up no probs. Installed XP no probs.

Job done or so I thought. I have tried to install Norton AV and before the
install has finished obtained all manner of Norton Error messages re missing
dlls etc. Tried to install Word from Ofice XP and whilst eventually I got a
complete and succesful install, eveytime I open Word I get the old 'error -
send report to MS. Both these progs have also resulted in a BSOD when
installing.

I have succesfully installed Norton Systemworks 02 - just to see if this
could find errors. This installed ok but hasn't cured the problem. NTL
Broadband also installed ok.

I can't see how windows can be corrupted, but thought maybe the BIOS may
need an update.

Theres not much hardware to go wrong and the system generally is stable
apart from these 2 programmes. Any ideas where to start looking?

 

[JAD]

Norton System Worse and Norton Any-virus -if -you- don't- pay are undoubtedly the most frustrating software produced. BUT, I do
recall something about NAV2001? 2002? antivirus NOT working on XP