WinXP and system insanity..Help needed.

[Ranulf]

A buddy is having problems with XP Pro on his desktop. It has been having random crashes, won't install warcraft 3 (other games have worked fine), windows XP has install issues i.e.:

"the file zipfldf32.dll would not copy over at all"

He's running an:
abit kr7a-133r bios CX (latest)
XP 2000 chip, 512ram( 2 256mb crucial) , audigy, Ti4400 abit vid card.
2 WD hard drives (40GB)
Primary drive runs XP, secondary drive runs RedHat.

It seems it started mostly after a bios flash and the install of the xp 2000 (it was previously an 1800). Several reformats have done nothing to improve things. He's used 3 different XP install disks with the same issue. I'm at a loss as to what could be the problem. Any ideas would be appreciated.

TIA

 

[microAmp]

A buddy is having problems with XP Pro

Sure!

Has he/you tried reconfiguring the BIOS? Also, try reverting back to the previous one? Grabbed the latest patch for WC3?

 

[Ranulf]

Originally posted by: motoamd

A buddy is having problems with XP Pro

Sure!

Has he/you tried reconfiguring the BIOS? Also, try reverting back to the previous one? Grabbed the latest patch for WC3?

No, it really is a friend who is having the problem and after having him run memtest it looks like its at least one, if not two bad sticks of ram. Although now he says war3 is corrupted on his laptop. So who knows .