New build problems

shodan

shodan

shodan

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I can't seem to work this one out.

I've just built a new system and installed Windows XP. The first thing I'd like to do is install my motherboard drivers, but when I try from the CD I get:

"The application failed to initiate properly (0xc0000006). Click on ok to terminate the application"

It does this when I try and install video drivers too. Nothing executable seems to work. Furthermore, I can't get on the internet without installing the ethernet drivers for the motherboard.

I've tried burning the ethernet driver to a cd and running it in the new pc. Error says:

"Only part of a ReadProcessMemory or WriteProcessMemory request was completed"

I did manage to update the chipset drivers by putting them on a floppy disk to transfer them, however not many things are the size of a floppy disk.

You can't copy executable files from the DVD drive to run from the hard drive either. It says:

"The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error"

I thought there might be a problem with the DVD drive but it installed XP fine with no problems until now.

Does anyone find these error messages familiar? What could be the problem here?
 
Memtest to 100% completion shows no errors.

I didn't bother testing further because my problems are perpetual, not intermittent.

Any more ideas?
 
Fixed it! :D

I had the DVD drive connected with the wrong IDE cable. Although I had used the one clearly labelled 'CD-ROM cable', I was connecting it to the ICH7R connector, which required the other one, clearly labelled 'HD cable' by Asus.

Scouring the manual last night I noticed they were called slightly different things, one was an 'Ultra DMA cable' and one was an 'Ultra ATA cable'.

I did a few other things when I had the case open as well, so it could be these that cured it (for anyone who has the same problems):

1) Moved the 2nd HD off the Jmicron sata port to Sata-3 on the ICH7R

2) Replaced the cmos battery again, as the spare I had been using (provided in the mobo box) was a CR2025, which is slightly thinner than the CR2032 that was in the board when it came and that I'm using again now.

3) Cleared cmos settings

4) Reversed case speaker polarity (thought it might make it sound a bit more normal but there is no change)

Hopefully, someone else building with the P5W DH may see this and avoid the nightmare I've had until now!
 
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