Installing windows problem with my Soyo!

[Jerry Cargile]

I have a SY-KT400 Dragon Ultra (Platinum Edition)with a 1200 Duron
processor, which will not install windows XP. When I try installing it,
as it copies the files needed to install the OS, I get a lot of (can't
find file so and so). This happens quite a bit until I get a blue
screen error that says it can't be installed. I know it's not a faulty
drive, because I can install XP without a hitch on another board.

So...I suppose it is either a bad board, or bad cpu. Has anyone ever
experienced this kind of problem loading windows XP?

Any feedback will be appreciated, because I really like this board and
hate to throw it away not knowing if it was bad, or not.

Jerry
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[andy]

Try running a memory test: (http://www.memtest.org/).

[Jerry Cargile]

f/fgeorge wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:01:15 -0500, Jerry Cargile
> <jcar...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>

> Bad disk? If the disk has been used many times it will become harder
> and harder to read. If you have a boot disk you can try booting into
> DOS and then making an I386 directory and copying that directory off
> thedrive into that directory and then install from there. Put the cd
> back in as it starts to load Windows in case it needs something off
> the disk.Winnt32.exe is the name of the the actual install file you
> use to do the install.

Thanks for the tips, I'll try them out. I have a Soyo KT400 Dragon
Ultra and an Asus A7V133 which I hate to throw away without knowing for
sure that they are toast, but the computer shop wants $45 to check the
mobos and cpus...that's each one of them. So counting my two Duron 1200
cpus, it's gonna cost a lot more than a replacement board of some kind.

Thanks again for your advice.

Jerry
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