Just bought a new machine with the following config:

CPU AMD Duron 850
M/BOARD ASUS A7V133 (KT133A)
Memory 1 x KingMax 128 Mb PC-133
Case AOpen HX48 ATX Midi (300 w)
Video Card Asus V7100 with TV output
HDD IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30Gb IDE
DVD Pioneer Slot 40/16

I continually get errors when installing W2K. During the initial stages, the following files aloways fail to copy from the CD:

dsprop.dll
mmsys.cpl
shel32.dll

Other files fail randomly.

I have Confirmed its not the Disc, tried multiple original Discs, all fail. And I have tried all Discs on my old PC, none fail on it.

I have swapped components with my older pc, i.e put the following components into my new PC from the old one (Removing the new component from the new PC), and the problem still exists:

HDD + Cable
RAM
CD Drive + Cable

I have reflashed the bios with rev 1004.

I am now running out of things to try. I have been frigging around with this for 1.5 weeks now, and its really starting to frustrate me.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Martin
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It almost sounds like a bad HDD, - doesn't it. I know it's not, but it sound like a bunch of bad sectors trying to be overwritten.
Is there a way to slow the HDD down? Maybe in the Bios? Have you set the HDD "detect" to Auto?(in the Basic section)

How about installing WinNT 4.0 and then upgrading to Win2K.

I'll help look for an answer for you.

One thing -- 128mgs of Ram is the bare minimum for Win2K. Get 256Mgs more. (HERE) Hey this might be the answer, now that I think of it. Instead of slowing down the HDD, maybe giving your system more Ram will help keep up with the data transfer speed of that HDD.

Its definately looking like a motherboard problem.

There is now two threads regarding this, on the forum hosted by ASUS themselves.

One guy apparently replaced his Mother Board (and nothing else) and then the problem started.

No solution yet however.

Martin

Hi Martin,
though I'm not completely sure I assume your problem lies with the ULTRA DMA 100 HDD- controller; normally W2K installations stop with an 'inaccessible boot device' message (had that when I tried to do the 2K- setup on mine;- I nearly went nuts then). If I remember rightly, I solved the problem as follows. What you do is press the F8 button when asked if you want to install a SCSI- device. As W2K is too 'blonde' to understand it's already got all necessary drivers on CD, you have prepare a disk for the drivers. Make a directory WIN2000 and manually copy the files 'ULTRA.inf', 'ULTRA.cat' and 'ULTRA.sys' into it (from the CD) and take that as source for the drivers. Your system should run now. I hope that works for you and your system runs as smoothly as mine. Cheers, Rainer.
By the way, asking the ASUS-people is as useful as a spot on the buttocks.

Martin-
I had same problems but I was using a hard drive that had a previous OS on it, all I did was a fdisk and format prior to trying to install Win2K. Finally resolved it with writing zeros to all sectors (low level format).

I'm having a similar problem... I can never get win2k to install properly... it would always say that files ntoskrnl.exe and ntkrnlpa.exe are corrupt, and if I clock down my cpu, those files work fine, except for a lot of other files which are always the same.
I'm not overclocking, it's not my copy since I tried to diff versions and also tried on other computers... what really pisses me off is the fact that I could install win2k with no problem last year, and I still have the same computer.