Unable to load WinXP on a new PC

[Taz666]

To start with I am building a new PC. Everything went fine till I try loading XP.
So I had better give you a list of parts I purchased to build my computer:
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ Processor, Socket 939, San Diego Core.
Antec Sonata II Mini Tower Case, SmartPower 2.0 450W PSU.
ASUS Extreme N6600 GeForce6600/ 256MB/ TVO/ DVI/ PCI-EX.
Corsair 1.0 GB TWINX-3200C2 (400MHz) DDR RAM, 2x CMX512-3200.
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum ATX S-939 M/B PCIE, SATA, DDR400, 7.1 Sound.
Western Digital WD2500JS CAVIAR SE/250GB/ 7200RPM/ SATA II/ 8MB.
1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive.
Samsung Double Layer DVD RW.
Also a used Liteon CD RW.

Putting it all together was fine, no problems there (that I am aware of).
First Boot, everything fine with that.

Now this is where I found a few problems with the second boot.

Re-booted with the Data Lifeguard Diagnostics floppy and went through all the tests with success. No problems here.

On to Installing Windows. I have a Windows XP Professional version 2002 includes service pack 2. ( this is a new installation, not an upgrade).

Changed the 1st, 2nd & 3rd Boot device all to CDROM.
Disk in, re-booted, pressed F6. Loaded floppy "G72-MNPR001, nVidia nForce4 SATA RAID and PATA RAID merge Driver For Win XP". Installed the drivers.
From here it went straight to Partition set-up. This went okay. Then to format C partition (thorough format).

This is where everything stopped. The format was completed and the error screen popped up with "Setup cannot copy the file: nvatabus.sys. I hit enter nothing happened, I hit Esc, nothing happened, on the second try the 2nd error showed, setup cannot copy nvraid.inf, then the 3rd error, setup cannot copy idecoi.dll, then the 4th error, setup cannot copy nvata.cat. After this more files where loaded then the blue screen with "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down.

I have gone back to BIOS setup again and checked through it, all seemed okay (again, as far as I can tell). Checked all hardware connections, to no avail. Went through the complete setup again from the start but got to the same position and then the problem page again.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?? Or could there be a problem with the WinXP disk???
I'd really appreciate any help.

 

[DetroitSportsFan]

Sounds to me like your ram is misbehaving. Go into your bios and make sure your ram is set at Corsair's specs. Corsair likes voltage in the 2.75v range ... which is a good bit above the default 2.55-2.6 you see on most boards. Once you've adjusted your ram voltage and timings to Corsair's spec, run memtest (overnight at least) to see if your ram is producing errors.

 

[jmagg]

Sounds like a SATA driver problem to me. Have you tried the latest driver from the board manufacturers site?

 

[bdww00]

Originally posted by: jmagg
Sounds like a SATA driver problem to me. Have you tried the latest driver from the board manufacturers site?

same as i thought because he does have sata2 and idk if reg nvidia drivers would work


but it says nvatabus or w/e so ithink it is a ata driver of somesort so id try tog et new drivers and stuff!

 

[DetroitSportsFan]

Although I don't discount that it could be a driver issue causing a conflict, I still say this sounds more like ram. File copy errors on install are usually associated to bad/incompatible ram. Its worth checking with a night of memtest to at least eliminate it from the mix.