ABIT IS7-E installation problems

Hi,
I've recently purchased an Abit IS7-E and starting installing it. I have
a 2.4 533Mhz CPU, 1 stick of Corsair XMS 512 MB memory, WB 120 G HD, Toshiba
CD/DVD drive, FX5200 128MB video card, old Compaq 56k modem. Installed the
hardware, plugged in the power and off I went. No problems until the system
first attempted to boot into the Windows XP screen. The computer rebooted
into some sort of error screen. Rebooted again and said I was missing a file
System32\drivers\pci.sys. I tried to reboot again several times. It said I
should do a "r" repair installation which I did more than once. I was never
even allowed to install the MB drivers. Couldn't even get to that screen.
Been building computers for many years and have never had so many problems.
Any of the ABIT newsgroup folks have any ideas?
Thanks,
Mike

 

Hello

I tried to repair my Windows XP installation after I switched
to the IS7-E (from a EPOX board) - no dice, I got pretty far
but it failed to install. I didn't bother trial-erroring and
just removed Winxp from the drive and did a fresh install.
So I would recommend a fresh install if the repair fails.

 

raise the DDR voltage to 2.7 volts and try again... may require you to
reinstall XP or at least try the repair procedure again...

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im runnign an IS7-E board with a 2.8GHz northwood core P4 800MHz with no
problems. didn;t have one problem installing xp pro and it's still running
fine. Try a clean install. although looking at the graphics card i can see
a problem. I am currently running an old geforce 2 pro with 64MB RAM and i
have had no problems. I then bought a geforce FX5200 128MB RAM. After i
installed it i had a blue screen every few hours. I had more blue screens
in 3 days of having that graphics card then my entire has ever had running
the geforce 2. I would upgrade the graphics card cause it gave my system
nothing but grief.

hope this helps

sp