Hi My friend has a computer Sckt939 3800 dual core and a new, well from ebay, Abit AN8 SLI Fatal1ty motherboard, XFX GeForce 7600GT, and about 3GB of RAM (DDR1). The rest of the system apart from the mobo is about 5 years old. We installed Windows XP, the install went okay, but when we got to installing the nVidea drivers they would not install, this was both the chipset and the GPU. they came up with the errors "This file won't install cos it may be corrupt ect" we re-downlaoded them all and got the same problem. We re installed windows and all went okay but we still got the same errors on the install of the drivers. >_< Now we have installed Windows with another optical drive, nothing, so we used another HDD and nothing the same errors on the install of the drivers. We updated the BIOS and still got the same errors. So we came to the conclusion that it could be something wrong with the motherboard, hence the new from ebay Fatal1ty. (as we had tried difffrent CDs of XP XP pro 64 and Vista, well Vista BSoD durring install >_<) During one of the installs Windows did say unable to find or read a file. We have also removed all the RAm and used another known to work stick. We have also resat the CPU and this still don't make any difference. Thanks for reading -Pete
Yeah we have downlaoded the drivers and cheked that they work, MD5 okay. We have even installed them on another computer. The main problem that we are getting now is that we can't install windows. It can't copy some of the *.dll files over during instal. We deleted and created new partitions.
Clean the face of the installation cd using toothpaste and water. You may need to format the drive in another machine. I have had problems with remnants of the old data after a full format using another machine to format the drive resolved it .
yeah he just did a normal format, and installed Windows XP Pro 32bit. During the install it BSoD many times and said that it couldent find/copy files (*.dll). We'll Zero it tomorrow, and see what happens.
