Problem with Boss's System

[Exille]

Just finished building my boss a new puter for the store but am having a
problem installed XP Pro, its a Athlon XP 2100,512Mbs corsair xms ddr 400,
Abit Nf7-s, radeon 9200 pro, 400W Codegen,80Gig WD, liteon 52-42-52 writer,
liteon 8x dvd, it formats fine but when it gets to installing xp files it
will install 5-6 then say that one cant be installed, i can hit enter to try
again and it might or might not install, it usually blue screens saying that
there has been a error and to restart, usually the problem is page file
found in unpaged area, or it says config unable to execute..anyone?

 

[Kent_Diego]

The only thing I can think of is bad WinXP CD or hard drive. Play with some
of the BIOS settings to see if helps. See if BIOS has boot sector virus
protection enabled.

-Kent

 

[Bishoop]

Exille wrote:
| Just finished building my boss a new puter for the store but am
| having a problem installed XP Pro, its a Athlon XP 2100,512Mbs
| corsair xms ddr 400, Abit Nf7-s, radeon 9200 pro, 400W Codegen,80Gig
| WD, liteon 52-42-52 writer, liteon 8x dvd, it formats fine but when
| it gets to installing xp files it will install 5-6 then say that one
| cant be installed, i can hit enter to try again and it might or might
| not install, it usually blue screens saying that there has been a
| error and to restart, usually the problem is page file found in
| unpaged area, or it says config unable to execute..anyone?

I would first connect only what's required, video card, HDD and CD-ROM.

If it still fails, try a different stick of DRAM, or if it's more than one
stick, try one at a time.

Next, try WD's harddrive test software.

 

[Exille]

the xp CD is practicly brand new, only used twice, been in a case, no
scratches, sector virus protection is off, should it be on?

 

[Peter A. Stavrakoglou]

I experienced the same problem with my old Abit KG-7 Raid board. It
turned out to be a bad IDE controller on the motherboard which I sent
back to Abit for repair.

 

[Sooky Grumper]

Just finished building my boss a new puter for the store but am having a
problem installed XP Pro, its a Athlon XP 2100,512Mbs corsair xms ddr 400,
Abit Nf7-s, radeon 9200 pro, 400W Codegen,80Gig WD, liteon 52-42-52 writer,
liteon 8x dvd, it formats fine but when it gets to installing xp files it
will install 5-6 then say that one cant be installed, i can hit enter to try
again and it might or might not install, it usually blue screens saying that
there has been a error and to restart, usually the problem is page file
found in unpaged area, or it says config unable to execute..anyone?

My guess would be motherboard or ram. What resources do you have
available to you for testing?

 

[Exille]

thanks for the suggestions but i found out what was wrong, i got so fed up i
dissasembled everything and hooked up the mobo,hd and ps to my test bench
and it freaked out, i took off the heatsink and re-seated the chip and put
it back togethor and it worked awsomly, guess i didnt seat it perfectly.