Trouble Installing Windows...Motherboard?

[Baxton]

I have an Asus A8N-E motherboard and I recently had it on for a week straight. After checking the computer one day the BSoD appeared. I shut the computer down and attempted to reboot. Everytime windows would start to load the BSoD would pop up.
I have now been trying a clean installation. In the initial stage of installation windows copies setup files the the hard drive. Here is where I am having trouble. I consistently get a "error copying file x" message during the installation process. And each time it is the same files. I just got a new install cd from windows. The errors are still occuring at the same exact files. TourW.exe is the first one the it just gets worse from this point. I have also tried using different cd drives, harddrives. The fan on the northbridge chip is not running and hasn't been running for about a week before the incident with no problems. I have contacted Asus and they seem to think that replacing the fan will solve all my problems. I have little computer knowledge but have a gut feeling that the motherboard is bad. If anyone as any insight on what may be the root of this problem please respond.

Is it likely that the fan will solve my problems?
Is a bad motherboard/chipset a possible reason for the problem I am having? Why?


Thanks

 

[dfuze]

Just using an uneducated guess and some personal experience, but I am tempted to say that your mobo has gone bad. I have a heat sink on my a8n-sli deluxe and that can get warm to say the least. I can't imagine how how it would be if it was running for a week straight and no heat sink (or in your case, even worse a fan that wasn't running). I would have suggested trying a different hard drive, but since you swapped them, that to me would point to the motherboard.

If you want to make sure it's not the hard drives, you could use (or download from their sites) the diagnostic stuff that came w/ the drive to further narrow down the culprit.