Urgent Install Question

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Robert Brugman

Hello,
I am trying to help my friend get Windows 2000 installed on his new
computer. He bought a nice 2.8Ghz system from ibuypower.com. When we try
to install windows 2000, it installs, but it seems to be missing some files.
When we try to download files from the internet after instlalling the net
drivers, the files are all "corrupt". When we install from the CD,
everything is fine, until you try to run the programs, where they all seem
to be missing files. I've used all the cd's before, but they just don¹t
work.

So we scrapped Win2k and tried WinXP. On install, it Kernel panics at the
"registering components" section, every time. We always do a fresh format
before install. We called tech support and they said the disc is bad, but
we've tried a total of 5 discs (two Win2k, 3 WinXP Home)

Does anyone have ANY idea what could be going on?


Thanks,
Robert


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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q281653

Article 281653
Setup Appears to Stop Responding at the Registering Components Screen During an Unattended Installation

Similler error but it was happen when it is unattended.

by the way,
what is " it seems to be missing some files" means?
do you have any error message say missing something?
do you have any error on event viewer?

where do you try to download from?
what is net driver? (Network Interface Card Driver?)

the files are all "corrupt" means, you have error message when you try to unzip driver?
or when you downloaded file?

did you try to download file on other PC?
or did you try to download file from FTP site with FTP Client program?
(not internet explorer)
 
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Problems related to copying files or finding corrupted files
during installation are most often caused by defective or sub-standard
hardware; in order of likelihood, either RAM, the hard drive, or the
motherboard. On much less frequent occasions, a bad CD or defective
CD drive can also cause this.


Bruce Chambers

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That article wasn't quite what happens,
When I say that it seems to be "missing" files, I mean that it appears to
have forgotten where they are. For example, I installed Office and it
worked fine when I opened it the first time. When I open it a second time,
it refuses to launch because certain files are missing, and it tells me to
reinstall. It's almost as if the computer has memory loss. We just get an
error saying "file abc.xyz could not be found."

Nothing looks weird in the event viewer.

We tried downloading files from all over the place. We tried getting
drivers from nvidia and creative, and we tried Windows Update. All failed.
It says that the file may be corrupt and may need to be redownloaded. When
we burn the files to a cd from a working computer, it reads them fine. The
network card is on-board the ASUS P4P800 motherboard. It's a 3com Gigabit
nic. We got the drivers for that off the cd, and then updated them with the
ones from 3com's site. It seems to be the only driver that would install.


Another problem I noticed is that the drivers won't take. For example, we
get the drivers from Creative for a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (right off the
card), and we install them, but it says that a sound blaster compatible card
cannot be found (even though the drivers off the cd worked just fine). Same
thing goes with the nVidia video card.

I've been working with computers for a long time, and I'm convinced that it
has to be something hardware related, because changing discs doesn't help.

One last thing I noticed is that the computer seems to slowly be self
destructing. First time we booted an installed Win2k, the install worked,
but nothing worked (missing files and "corrput" downloads), so we tried to
reinstall. Kernel Panic trying to install Win2k the second time. Kernel
panic every time we try WinXP. There was even a point the computer couldn't
find its bios, but a simple unplug fixed that. Now we're stuck trying to
figure out what to do, because XP won't install.

Does anything sound familiar with these problems?

Thanks,
Robert

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q281653

Article 281653
Setup Appears to Stop Responding at the Registering Components Screen During
an Unattended Installation

Similler error but it was happen when it is unattended.

by the way,
what is " it seems to be missing some files" means?
do you have any error message say missing something?
do you have any error on event viewer?

where do you try to download from?
what is net driver? (Network Interface Card Driver?)

the files are all "corrupt" means, you have error message when you try to
unzip driver?
or when you downloaded file?

did you try to download file on other PC?
or did you try to download file from FTP site with FTP Client program?
(not internet explorer)
Click to expand...

~Robert Brugman~
GPG Key ID: 82506034
GPG Fingerprint: D710 B8D9 C72A AB56 174F 71AC 3619 9F32 8250 6034
 
We actually figured it out. One of the two sticks of RAM was bad ,and it
was causing the system to suddenly loose files. All fixed now,

Thanks everyone!
Robert



Hello,
I am trying to help my friend get Windows 2000 installed on his new
computer. He bought a nice 2.8Ghz system from ibuypower.com. When we try
to install windows 2000, it installs, but it seems to be missing some files.
When we try to download files from the internet after instlalling the net
drivers, the files are all "corrupt". When we install from the CD,
everything is fine, until you try to run the programs, where they all seem
to be missing files. I've used all the cd's before, but they just don¹t
work.

So we scrapped Win2k and tried WinXP. On install, it Kernel panics at the
"registering components" section, every time. We always do a fresh format
before install. We called tech support and they said the disc is bad, but
we've tried a total of 5 discs (two Win2k, 3 WinXP Home)

Does anyone have ANY idea what could be going on?


Thanks,
Robert


~Robert Brugman~
GPG Key ID: 82506034
GPG Fingerprint: D710 B8D9 C72A AB56 174F 71AC 3619 9F32 8250 6034
Click to expand...

~Robert Brugman~
GPG Key ID: 82506034
GPG Fingerprint: D710 B8D9 C72A AB56 174F 71AC 3619 9F32 8250 6034
 
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