Older PC, Can't get XP to load...

[Kelemvor]

Howdy,

I have an older p3-866 PC that I'm trying to bring to the current day by loading XP. I can get XP to install off the CD as normal but when it starts going through the XP setup that tells you how many minutes you have remaining, it starts giving me all kinds of errors that it can't load driver files for everything. CD-ROM, Diskdrive, Ports, etc. It pops up the messages one after the other as it's going through the process.

The MB is an Intel CA810e which on Intel's site, has no Bios version listed for XP. WIll this mean I'll have to load 2k on this PC and that's all I can do or is there something I'm missing that might help me get XP on this thing?

Of course this is no longer supported by Intel and is in their Archive section so I can't get any questions answered from them either.

Here's Intel's page for this board in case someone sees somethign I missed.
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/CA810e/

Thanks!

 

[VivienM]

Test the RAM with memtest86?

 

[Peter]

Seconded. "File not found" errors during OS installation are caused by bad RAM almost every time. (This is because files are checksummed after reading them from the installation CD, and before writing them to the target hard disk. If that inbetween storage isn't reliable, the checksumming will fail, and you'll get that "missing file" message.)