xp wont install

[dave]

had the same problem on my machine came on here last
night they told me it was a hardware problem i.e. ram
hard drive cd rom etc. put anothre stick of ram in and xp
loaded straight awayso give that a try worked for me and
my prob was EXACTLY the same
>-----Original Message-----
>I have an Aopen ax4c max motherboard with p4 2.8 and 512
>ram. I start installing xp and it gets as far as the
main
>installation files then stops randomly and says
>certmgr.dll(this is totally random not always the same
>files) was not copied correctly. the file setup placed
on
>your hd is not a valid xp system image. blah blah.
retry,
>skip or quit. if you retry it just stops again at
another
>file until it doesnt retry again. I've sent parts back,
>I've tried various forums, xp installs ok on my old pc
>with all the disk drives etc but wont install on my new
>pc with any config of drives. 98 did install but couldnt
>install anything else!!! come up with not enough virtual
>mem. my hard drives are empty. any help would be greatly
>appreciated. thanks Danny
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