[C h X]

This is the " problematic " system that i have:

Soyo SY-K7V DRAGON PLUS! MB
256 MB DDR 233
40 Gb WD HDD
G3 TI500
Floppy
300 W PS
Sony CD-RW


The Problem:

Most times on Win XP installations ( Pro/Home/Sp1/Sp2 ) there are various errors that come up:

> The most popular one is " The ACPI BIOS in this system is not fully compliant with the ACPI specification. I try the install with F7 to diable it (ACPI) but same things happens.
> The latest one is " The file ntfs.sys is corrupted. "
* All the above happen b4 i get to choose a parition.
> Sometimes the install just dies @ the installation of the PCI Bus.
> On two ocasions I manged to get to pick the partition and file sys. type, only to ge a fat32.sys and ntfs.sys corrputed files error.

The motherboard is set up properly, or @ least as fas as I can tell
The bios is updated to date and everything looks fine in there too.

I'm sure I'm missing something but I just can't figure out what, been @ it for some long 2 weeks lol.

If you read this all, I thank you for your time.

Think it's time to hang meself from the MS building.

 

[C h X]

Windows 98 just dies after the HDD scan and linux also rejects the idea of installation.

 

[johnwill]

Quite frankly, I suspect you have a hardware issue with the MB. I'd start by resetting the BIOS to factory defaults, then downloading MemTest86 and running a comprehensive test overnight on the system. Remove ALL the expansion boards not needed for a basic install, you should just need the video board, and then try to do the install. This might be a bus conflict...

 

[C h X]

the system is just as i described it nothing else but vid in it.
the mem test is running as we speak and lol it finds errors, rite now we're @ 303k errors


and this is jus test 1 lol

should i pick up a new mem stick on my way home 2morrow ?
somehow i don't think it's this ez

 

[johnwill]

It may well be that easy, it's happened more than once.