I am upgrading a friends comp from old Intel 700 mhz to new MSI MB with Athlon Xp 1800+. After new MB installation XP would not boot so I began a format and reinstall, now there is a problem with the install, it freezes at 60% of copying files at the file OEMBIOS.BIN. Any ideas? I cannot try another video card as there is no onboard video with the board and I only have the one card... Please help, anything is appreciated.

Well, I've had that problem before, and usually it's in the memory. Some computers have too low of memory, so what memory size (in MB) does that computer have... you need a reccommended minumum 128 MB of ram. Another good idea is to format the Hard Disk in NTFS format. Hope I help! :) ## WES ##

Check you BIOS for a setting called. 'System BIOS Cacheable' disable it. Richard

The memory is 512 mb pc2100 ddr and the hdd is already ntfs. Still nothing... Installed Xp using another comp that is working, switch the hdd over to this unit and nothing again, the hard drive spins for like 2 seconds and then nothing. Cables are good too, checked them...

Rich, Disabled what you said, no change, still hangs at 60% of copying files...oembios.bin