Urgent tech help needed

[Chewie]

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I'm in the process of recycling an older PC to introduce an elderly gentleman to the internet. The PC has 512meg of ram, and a celeron running at 800mhz. It was running XP pro when I got it. I've formatted it at the previous owner's request, and I'm using a disk I burned with XP Pro including service pack 3. I know the XP disk works, as I used it to install XP on my own PC.

At present, I can format the HDD, copy over the setup files, and then when it starts to install, I get the following error message:

Error:

Installation Failed: D:\I386\asms

Error Message: The parameter is incorrect

xxx

Fatal Error:

One of the components that Windows needs to continue setup could not be installed.

The parameter is incorrect.

 

[Gonz]

Typically, when I get error meessages like that, it's a disc (CD) failure.

 

[A.B.Normal]

or a bad CD Drive thats unable to read it,you gotta have an extra CDROM laying around right.

 

[Chewie]

I guess it must have been the cd. I've installed win2K, ands its working so far.

 

[Luis G]

XP SP3 being relatively new, I'd dare to say that the install CD was made by you. Perhaps some component is missing and/or old instructions for making such CDs are not updated.

 

[Chewie]

XP SP3 being relatively new, I'd dare to say that the install CD was made by you. Perhaps some component is missing and/or old instructions for making such CDs are not updated.

Actually, I downloaded the iso via uTorrent. It worked just fine to intall xp in my own machine, but didn't work after I wrote the serial number on the disc. And the other two I burned also didn't work.

 

[catocom]

like was said somewhat...
some cd/dvd roms/burners, don't like stuff burned from some other drives.
(media brand differs also)

 

[Luis G]

Actually, I downloaded the iso via uTorrent. It worked just fine to intall xp in my own machine, but didn't work after I wrote the serial number on the disc. And the other two I burned also didn't work.

SP3 still has some issues, I suggest that you keep working with SP2 until it is fixed.

 

[Chewie]

You could be right there. I'll track down an iso with sp2, instead.