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taicandraw
Hello there,
Ok, I've got a pretty annoying problem that is a complete first. Here
it is..
I have been given some new parts that have been combined with my old
ones to beef my system up a bit.
It is a P4 3Ghz Socket 478 on an ECS SF2 SiS 661FX chipset
with: 2 x 512 PC2700 sticks of RAM combined with my Winfast Titanium
Ti200 and my previous hard drive.
First of all, I created a new hardware profile on my original HD and
within that profile deleted all hardware settings including
motherboard chipset, IDE controller, ethernet, graphics controller and
graphics card so that I could attempt to just install all the new
hardware into my version of XP. Obviously this was to avoid a totally
fresh re-install which I was prepared to do if the swap didn't work.
Switch on.. everything seems fine. Load up profile 2, all new hardware
is installed from the drivers I had prepared in a temp directory on my
hard drive.
I get to the point where my zonealarm firewall and avira start..
except my antivirus refuses to start. I say.. ok, perhaps something
has happened and I need to re-install the software. I download the
latest version directly from Avira and then attempt installation and
it says there are CRC errors and that files.dat is corrupt. Weird. So
I try AVG. Same problem. I am getting annoyed, so I switch back to the
old HD that has XP home on it, and get the exact same problem. The
only change on that HD was the graphics card... a pretty safe change-
over as they go.
So now I try everything.. I try to download the latest DirectX.. same
problem. I try using GetRight to download software... problem is the
same.
Now I test the memory with memtest, which ran fine on my old system.
It comes up with errors that didn't exist before, but my system seems
totally stable except from all installations failing. Even when
downloaded with GetRight.
I format the new HD and try to install a fresh XP and for some bizarre
reason both my original and my back-up copies get through part of the
installation and then files cannot be read from the disc. Randomly,
most of the time the reading-errors are on completely different files
each time i try to install.
Anyone up to the challenge of offering some wisdom, I will be totally
grateful
Ok, I've got a pretty annoying problem that is a complete first. Here
it is..
I have been given some new parts that have been combined with my old
ones to beef my system up a bit.
It is a P4 3Ghz Socket 478 on an ECS SF2 SiS 661FX chipset
with: 2 x 512 PC2700 sticks of RAM combined with my Winfast Titanium
Ti200 and my previous hard drive.
First of all, I created a new hardware profile on my original HD and
within that profile deleted all hardware settings including
motherboard chipset, IDE controller, ethernet, graphics controller and
graphics card so that I could attempt to just install all the new
hardware into my version of XP. Obviously this was to avoid a totally
fresh re-install which I was prepared to do if the swap didn't work.
Switch on.. everything seems fine. Load up profile 2, all new hardware
is installed from the drivers I had prepared in a temp directory on my
hard drive.
I get to the point where my zonealarm firewall and avira start..
except my antivirus refuses to start. I say.. ok, perhaps something
has happened and I need to re-install the software. I download the
latest version directly from Avira and then attempt installation and
it says there are CRC errors and that files.dat is corrupt. Weird. So
I try AVG. Same problem. I am getting annoyed, so I switch back to the
old HD that has XP home on it, and get the exact same problem. The
only change on that HD was the graphics card... a pretty safe change-
over as they go.
So now I try everything.. I try to download the latest DirectX.. same
problem. I try using GetRight to download software... problem is the
same.
Now I test the memory with memtest, which ran fine on my old system.
It comes up with errors that didn't exist before, but my system seems
totally stable except from all installations failing. Even when
downloaded with GetRight.
I format the new HD and try to install a fresh XP and for some bizarre
reason both my original and my back-up copies get through part of the
installation and then files cannot be read from the disc. Randomly,
most of the time the reading-errors are on completely different files
each time i try to install.
Anyone up to the challenge of offering some wisdom, I will be totally
grateful