One possibility is to set your graphic card driver to the plain vanilla xga and then going to the M$ site for updates. Another possibility is to simply add drivers WITHOUT any other associated utility.pmshah i have already followed your steps to make the windows install cd with the added sataide driver, which worked nice thank you, i have formatted and installed xp thanks to that trick, im just have problems with these above drivers i have mentioned.
I have burnt my hands with a number of so called brand name products. nVidia chipset is one of them. I have had a lot of problems with their USB AND ethernet hardware. The other is the USB on Asus mobos. Onboard USB invariably fails. I simpy disable it in bios and add a via card for US$ 7/=. I may lose booting capability but can sve the motherboard. Since then I have standardised on AMD 780 chipset. Unfortunately you don't have that option.
What you might try is get the hardware ID for the items in question and do a Google search. You might just get lucky.