When applying Intel INF drivers, system reboots

[Souka]

Chipset 845G
Fresh install of WinXP Pro w/Sp1
Installing as administrator1
No antivirus or other applications intalled.

Problem:
When applying the Intel INF update, part way through the system reboots. Usually it comes up with something like "....\system32\pci.sys is invalid...boot from CD and choose R to repair." I reboot again, and system boots normally but none of the intel drivers have installed.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[LiLithTecH]

Right from the readme file of the INTEL INF Update.

************************************************************
* 9C. INSTALLING THE WINDOWS* XP INF FILES AFTER OS
* INSTALLATION
************************************************************
Some Intel(R) chipset platforms already are supported by
Windows* XP so it may not be necessary to use the INF
files provided by this software to update Windows* XP.

The following steps describe the installation process of
the Windows* XP INF files. You may need to repeat these
steps to update all Intel(R) chipset devices not supported
by Windows* XP.

1. Copy the contents of the
<INF Extract Directory>\XXXX\WinXP
directory to the root directory of the floppy disk
(A:\).

Note: XXXX is the directory name for the chipset
of interest. See Section 8 for more details.

2. Close all programs currently running on the system.
3. Click on Start.
4. Select Settings.
5. Select Control Panel.
6. Double-click on System icon.
7. Click on Hardware tab.
8. Click on Device Manager button.
9. Select "Devices by connection" under the View menu.
10. Click on MPS Uniprocessor PC -OR- MPS
Multiprocessor PC.
NOTE: Only one of the above items will be
displayed for a given system.
11. Click on PCI bus.
12. Right-click on the line containing the description
PCI standard host CPU bridge
-or-
PCI standard ISA bridge
-or-
PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
-or-
PCI System Management Bus
-or-
Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller
-or-
Standard Universal PCI to USB Host Controller
(This line will be selected.)
13. Select Properties from the pull-down menu.
14. Click on the Driver tab.
15. Click on Update Driver button.
16. Windows* XP will launch the Upgrade Device Driver
Wizard. Select Next.
17. Ensure that the following choice is selected:
Search for a suitable driver for my device
(recommended)
18. Insert the floppy containing the Windows* XP INF
files into the floppy drive.
19. Select Next.
20. Windows* XP will list locations from where the
updated driver file can be found. Ensure that the
following choice is selected:
Floppy disk drives
21. Select Next.
22. Windows* XP should report that a driver has been
found:
(The detected device name will be displayed.)
Select Next.
23. Select Finish.
24. Restart the system when prompted to do so.

 

[Souka]

tried that.

Followed each step per instructions..... after rebooting system displayed errors like I mentioned before.

After a reboot or two, I was back in OS still using the microsoft driver. I've loaded the intel drivers before using the .EXE inf updater...made a nice improvement in the Disk I/O.....but I just can't get it to take this time.