Ok this has me stuck, tried a lot of things, cant get it to work...

What im running:
ASUS A8N-SLI- PREMIUM nForce, AMD Athlon™ 64 3800+ Processor Dual Core, XFX GeForce 7600GT XXX Edition , 1024 GeIL Dual Channel RAM, Western Digital 320 gig HD.

The problem.

Install windows xp pro....fully legit copy. Goes through, formats, installs fine. Then, boot it up, install the first driver on the ASUS motherboard cd. Restart computer? Sure.

Then reboot, wont load into windows...missing a system file...

And the repair option off the xp cd simply takes me to the windows directory in dos.

Any ideas?

Hi Harry and welcome to PCHF,
What kind of drivers are we talking about? Chipset drivers? Did you install the latest drivers (downloaded from the asus webstie)?
Bram

The drivers were from the motherboard disc....the first option. Sorry i cant remember the name...brought the disc to work here, but wont work.

Im currently downloading the nForce 4 driversoff the site and will look on the asus page for more.

The best option is to only install the latest drivers/download them from the asus site. Some older drivers may cause problems, as you might have noticed. I'll be here if you need me :-)

u try setting ide to ultra instead of pio only ?,,
may be a cd drive read problem

and only use i stick of ram while your installing, that helps sometimes

That's a good one chessmann, had an issue related to that with a customer. (the dma/pio option)

yea,, iv had that problem befor,, changing cd drive and removing all the ram but one stick, and fdisking hdrive befor ntfs formating seems to correct it,,