And I stress - Major issues... to start, here's the setup
Soyo SY-P4X400 Dragon Ultra
Intel Pentium 4 2.53Ghz
1GB Corsair nonECC ram
Toshiba DVD ROM
GeForce Ti??? 128MB
Western Digital 120GB hdd (x2)
now the problem: I can't install any Operating System. Everytime I try it eventually tells me that it can't copy a file (the file is always a different one) and that I should clean the CD. I got this error even after copying the CAB files onto the hard drive. I've tried installing Windows 95, 98SE, 2k Pro, XP Home, and XP Pro as well as Red Hat Linux 9.0. Here's a list of what I've tried to fix the problem so far:
Used different hard drives
Used different CD ROMs
Used different cables
Flashed the BIOS (first thing I did)
Fdisk'ed and formatted several times
removed everything but what's needed to run the comp
Disabled all onboard devices
Even got another motherboard, exact same model
Right now I'm at the point of using a stream of four letter words about Soyo. This is my first experience with them, and I'll NEVER buy from them (this isn't my computer, it belongs to my boss).
Any ideas, short of going on a killing spree?
Soyo SY-P4X400 Dragon Ultra
Intel Pentium 4 2.53Ghz
1GB Corsair nonECC ram
Toshiba DVD ROM
GeForce Ti??? 128MB
Western Digital 120GB hdd (x2)
now the problem: I can't install any Operating System. Everytime I try it eventually tells me that it can't copy a file (the file is always a different one) and that I should clean the CD. I got this error even after copying the CAB files onto the hard drive. I've tried installing Windows 95, 98SE, 2k Pro, XP Home, and XP Pro as well as Red Hat Linux 9.0. Here's a list of what I've tried to fix the problem so far:
Used different hard drives
Used different CD ROMs
Used different cables
Flashed the BIOS (first thing I did)
Fdisk'ed and formatted several times
removed everything but what's needed to run the comp
Disabled all onboard devices
Even got another motherboard, exact same model
Right now I'm at the point of using a stream of four letter words about Soyo. This is my first experience with them, and I'll NEVER buy from them (this isn't my computer, it belongs to my boss).
Any ideas, short of going on a killing spree?