MrCodeDude
Lifer
Last night, I took out my ECS K7S5A and put in an Iwill 333-R motherboard. I also put in a new hard-drive, but took the old one out. So, this would necessarly be a new start. So, I turn on the power, and after an hour or so of switching cables and setting jumpers to make the drives boot up in the correct order. I boot from the CD to install Windows XP.
On my generic 36X cd-rom drive, it starts loading the install files and then says that sohopci.sys file is corrupt. Knowing that the cd can't be bad, I try the cd on my Phillips 8/4/32 burner. The installation gets to "Setup is Starting Windows," and then just hangs. So now I think, it has to be the motherboard.
I consult my friend and he tells me to check for newer BIOS's and certainly enough, there is an update for my version (1.0) that states:
1. Fix CD-ROM Compatibility issue.
2. Add CPU/Memory asynchronous mode.
3. Fix ATI All in wonder 128 compatibility issue.
Is the CD-Rom Compatibility issue the problem that I'm having? That is the only thing that I think I'm doing wrong, if anything. Will flashing my BIOS possibly fix this problem?
-- mrcodedude
On my generic 36X cd-rom drive, it starts loading the install files and then says that sohopci.sys file is corrupt. Knowing that the cd can't be bad, I try the cd on my Phillips 8/4/32 burner. The installation gets to "Setup is Starting Windows," and then just hangs. So now I think, it has to be the motherboard.
I consult my friend and he tells me to check for newer BIOS's and certainly enough, there is an update for my version (1.0) that states:
1. Fix CD-ROM Compatibility issue.
2. Add CPU/Memory asynchronous mode.
3. Fix ATI All in wonder 128 compatibility issue.
Is the CD-Rom Compatibility issue the problem that I'm having? That is the only thing that I think I'm doing wrong, if anything. Will flashing my BIOS possibly fix this problem?
-- mrcodedude
