xp64 install prblems

[examinedliving]

Hi. I have just installed xp64 on my computer and have some problems.

first:

comp specs

dell xps 420

intel dual core processor 3.16gz - e8500

8gb ddr2-800 ram

raid 0

2 500 gb interal sata 7200 hd's

I have use nlite on this computer before with the xp 64 with no problems...this time I slimmed it way down and slipstreamed sp2 and everything else using '5eraphs(sp?) pack'

I am also running xp64 side by side with win 7 64 bit

win 7 works flawlessly (except for some microsoft flaws)

xp 64 works really, really, really great - lightning fast, and no bloat

here is the problems I am running into:

whenever I run certain programs, - and my sense is that these certain programs are programs that somehow interact with my winsock layer, specicially ctfixspi.exe cthelper.exe from my emu soundcard, and proteusx.exe (emu app), as well as some other related music programs...but it is not limited to those just more prevelant there....i get one, two, or both of the following errors in pop up form:

'x'

(where x is the name of whatever program I am trying to run) shows up in the active tile bar of the dialog box, and the caption reads:

This is a bad image. wsock32.dll is not a valid win 32 application. Please check you installation diskette.

OR

This is a bad image. ws2help.dll is not a valid win 32 application. Please check you installation diskette.

(note:this may be slightly off, as I am not near that computer, and am doing it from memory.)

and then whatever program I am trying to run, doesn't run.

a couple details and things I have tried.

registered and unregistered and reregistered said dll's - each produces an error message - the one about the 'entry point' not being found

went into netsh winsock, and reset the catlog - nothing

ran nirsoft's dllview - interesting - neither showed up -

tried to use msconfig to replace the file using the expand method - problem...couldn't find what cab these were located in on any media - must be hidden or something....

replaced the two dll's with the same dll's from win 7 installation -just because it was a convenient test - no change in the error message - though I couldn't be sure, it did not appear to even read them to check...

notes -

this installation, i did without sfc -

there were several errors that I didn't write down during installation, but they appeared not to cause any problems

msdtc doesn't show up as a service and dcomcfg doesn't work - perhaps i deliberately uninstalled this? don't remember

internet doesn't work because I haven't installed intel driver yet

all of this does not matter really - I am ONLY using this partition for audio production, so it is fairly barebones, and normally I would just uninstall and restart, but it is working so perfectly...

also - event viewer says nothing on the matter

any suggestions?

Edited September 16, 2009 by examinedliving

[cluberti]

Since you've nLite'd the install, I'm moving this to the nLite section for more eyeballs seeing this that are familiar with nLite.

[johnhc]

examinedliving, you should get no errors while running nLite or during install. I run x64 and have done many installs on VMware Server and get no errors. I do recommend you consider a virtual system for testing. VMware Server and VirtualBox are free and both support x64 (I have not tried VirtualBox). I looked at WSOCK32.DLL on my install source folder and here are the particulars:

Version: 5.2.3790.1830

Size: 25,088 Bytes

MD5: 67C6DE277D8E7991D74FA51502D85E98

You should look at your installed one and at the one on your source.

To help you further, we need more information. So, please attach (not paste) your Last Session.ini. Make sure to always start with a fresh copy of your CD files/folders, do all your work in one nLite session and integrate only one SP. Please report when you have a solution, so others can benefit. Enjoy, John.