XP install problems with m860tu, help!

Ok, this is getting annoying. So I have an XP cd, and using winlite I've made another copy that has SP3 on it. Now, when I try to install XP on my laptop (which I just received), while it's copying files over, it intermittently just does not *find* them, and it asks me to hit enter to try again or escape to skip it. I've tried this a few ways. I've tried just hitting escape, installing, getting windows working, and then having such a barebones install that nothing really works (including installing ANYTHING). I've also tried switching the cd out (between the two I have) when it says it doesn't find a file, and that works, I think, but during setup I get a 'Setup failed to install the product catalogs' thing, and it quits. Any ideas? This is getting rather annoying...

And to clarify, yes the cd is legit, so there's no problems there, in theory. Plus, it has worked on other computers before this, as recently as yesterday.

 

so are you installed XP SP2 or an SP3 that was slipstreamed?

I use nLite and slipstream drivers and SP3 fine.

 

yes, it's an SP3 slipstream, but it just doesn't want to install, and I know it's not the disc, as I've tried it on another computer with no problems at all.

That error, in googling, implies a potential RAM problem, but I'm not sure if that's right.

More importantly though, I have absolutely no idea why it doesn't want to copy files over from the disc...

 

Actually, some slipstreams did not work in my notebook either.. while they worked on other systems.

It has to do with hardware in the notebook that can cause conflicts in the slipstreamed discs.

I had to start with a regular XP Pro SP2 CD (Retail, non branded) and used nLite to modify to near a Winlite (or miniXP) style format with the notebook's specific component drivers and SP3.... took me 3 tries to get it a slipstreamed custom CD to work.

Trust me, its not the disc itself, but the config within the disc that is having conflicts with the notebook's hardware.

 

Same, re: slipstreamed discs, and especially with SP3. I went back to a retail SP1 disc I had (and floppy for the SATA drivers, ick - big issue with running older/retail versions of XP).

Alternatively, you can run memtest (burned to cd from another pc) and check out the ram, to make sure it's not this.

 

ok, this is still getting to me. So, I know it's not the hard drive, it's not the RAM (memtest confirms), but it is that there's something about this disc that my machine does not like. Has anyone else with this machine, and a SATA II hard drive, had this problem? Where XP during installation does not copy over about half of the files it needs to?

 

I just installed XP SP3 on a M860TU near me.... was no problem at all.

It was a clean XP Pro OEM that I slipstreamed the SATA drivers onto (thats all) and it loaded up perfectly fine.

 

Ok, to be specific here, which SATA driver did you use?

Also, thank you very much for helping me on this one, this has been a bit frustrating.

 

I believe I slipstreamed the Matrix driver:
http://www.eurocom.com/support/drivers/zip/M860TU/06Matrix.zip

and then after XP installed, I installed the Intel chipset drivers.

Remember (for installing XP), in the BIOS switch the SATA mode to IDE if AHCI does not work...
- and disable the ROBSON support.