denetteam Posted March 26, 2006 Posted March 26, 2006 I have tried to instal win xp pro on my system I built. I have a Maxtor SATA 160 gb. I do believe it is a Diamond Plus series. My MB is a pcchips M861G southbridge VT8237. I installed the sata drivers by hitting f6. It seems everytime it starts to install it crashes for one reason or another (blue screen). I have received Memory_Management and Pfn_List_Corrupt and I have even recieved registry file failure. I am just wondering if there is something wrong with my motherboard, memory (266 pc3200 400 mhz ddr), processor AMD Sempron 3100+ Socket 754pin. I am a noobie to forums. Any help would be appreciated. I have been messing with this for weeks now....
Andromeda43 Posted March 26, 2006 Posted March 26, 2006 Do you know that your mobo is seeing your SATA drive properly?Does it show up in the bios?What boot order have you set?It should be CDRom then SATA then floppy. At least for installing windows.Do you even have a floppy drive?If you do, I'd boot up with a 98 or ME boot floppy and then FDISK and Format your HD to validate it.I do that with all my drives anyway. Just makes things easier later.If you can access the SATA drive with a DOS boot disk, then anything should be able to access it, including the XP Install disk.Andromeda
LLXX Posted March 27, 2006 Posted March 27, 2006 Run Memtest86+ on your system for a few hours to see if the memory is at fault.
stickzilla Posted March 27, 2006 Posted March 27, 2006 I believe you need to have the SATA drivers on a floppy, and install them when Windows is about to install and asks for RAID controller drivers ?I haven't had this problem, but I think there have been many posts here about it.
nmX.Memnoch Posted March 27, 2006 Posted March 27, 2006 (edited) Does your Windows XP CD have SP1 or SP2 slipstreamed? If it's the original retail release then you'll have problems because it doesn't support drives over 137GB.Follow the guide here for slipstreaming (I personally prefer the manual method):http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/6/Then follow the guide here to burn your new CD:http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/8/You'll still need the drivers on the floppy... Edited March 27, 2006 by nmX.Memnoch
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