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.
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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
