JR North wrote:
The ports and cables are both 40p. BTDT

Both ends will be 40 pin but the newer cables are finer and have 80
conducters in the same width, every other one being a ground to prevent
crosstalk, the difference should be obvious.

JR
Dweller in the cellar


On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:25:49 -0800 (PST), wrote:


On Feb 3, 10:55 pm, JR North wrote:

I installed an ata133 drive-same problem.....
JR
Dweller in the cellar

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:17:04 -0800, JR North



wrote:

So, I decided to build a new puter for the shop, cuz some new programs
I need won't run on ME, of which I have many loaded HDs. They need XP,
so I got an XP-pro disc and COA on Ebay.
The MB is an Asrock K8NF4G with 1 GB DDR2 333 in 2 512 mb sticks and a
Semperon 3 gig processor. The MB has onboard video. The HD is Seagate
40mb IDE.
Bios can only run the CPU at 1.8 Gig...
When loading XP setup files (second stage, after the initialization
files are loaded into ram), the installation stalls about 10% thru
with a file copy failure screen. Sometimes it runs to 40-60% before it
happens. I thought the CD was funky, so the seller sent me a
replacement free (nice guy). The second disc does the same thing.
If I do the NTFS drive format thru Windows Installation , it says it
can't be done because the HD has faults.
If I format it with my ME boot disc, it formats OK and tests good. I
load a primary DOS partiton and have WI do a quick NTFS format-it goes
ok.
Bios does not see a problem with the memory or HD
Scandisk heavy scan shows no bad clusters on the HD.
I thought maybe the puter was running out of ram, so I reduced the
shared Video memory to 32mb from 128 MB.
Swapped CDRW drive and ide cable, reseated CPU and memory, CPU runs
cool.
Still does the same thing-stalling with file copy failure.
If WI does not format, but leaves the primary ME dos partition
intact, it makes no difference.
The stall seems to happen often on the same files on installation, but
not always. Sometimes it runs to 60% or so, loading the previous
failed files ok, then stalls on a new one. Ejectng/loading the CD on
the file copy failure screen has helped with one or two files, but not
all failures.
Several fruitless hours invested here,,,,, Help?
JR
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What does the install log file say? Should have some indication of
what file it's choking on and why. You can get to it by using the
maintenance console feature.

If you haven't run it yet, get Memtest 86+ and burn the CD, it's
freeware. I always run this on new hardware, sometimes memory isn't
all that reliable or there's a BIOS setting off. Let it run through
all the tests several times. Odd things happen with intermittent
memory faults. I've had new sticks not pass, the MB chipset didn't
support that brand.

If you've got another machine, you could mount your install hard drive
as a second drive, format it NTFS and copy the CD to it. That would
pretty much remove either the CD or the hard drive as the problem.
Use xcopy from a command window with verify.

Another alternative is to create a FAT32 partition, copy the CD to a
folder on it, then kick off the XP install from the command line in 98/
ME/whatever from that folder. If that works,you can run the FAT32-

NTFS conversion utility that XP comes with. Make sure your hardware

is 100% beforehand.

Just occurred to me, that you might be using a 40-pin IDE cable when
the board is looking for an 80-pin. Funny things happen when that's
the case, too. Nephew just had that problem.

Stan