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01-06-2006, 08:51 AM
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XP installation problem
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I'm having a very frustrating problem with an xp pro installation. Have just bought a brand new PC for a new starter, and am trying to install it in the same way I have done many times before. Put the cd in, make a new partition, format it and begin setup. But at the point where it copies all the DLL and SYS files, I keep getting errors flash up saying "could not copy filename.dll. retry or skip" and I have to skip that file, but it's happening to quite a number of the files. I tried out just skipping them all to get the installation complete and see if windows ran, but it didn't. I have tried with 3 different XP discs so I'm sure it's not that. Any ideas? |
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01-06-2006, 08:56 AM
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post your system specs and is that a SATA HD?
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01-06-2006, 08:57 AM
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It could be a memory issue. If you have more than one stick of memory installed, try running with just one stick.
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01-06-2006, 08:57 AM
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It's a 40GB IDE Hard Drive, P4 2.8 processor, 256MB RAM. It's exactly the same PC as the last 4 I have bought which all worked fine.
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01-06-2006, 09:50 AM
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It was just one stick of ram, but I took it out and replaced it with a 512mb stick (512 is more than I'd normally use, but it was the only compatible stick I could find), and it has worked! Thank you.
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01-06-2006, 09:53 AM
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what i would do is run a diagnostic on that memory stick to see if its really deffective before returning it, memtest.org
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