Re: Windows XP Pro SETUP (Setup cannot copy file-s)
- From: "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:28:59 -0400
So, you are confident it is not the optical drive or the Windows CD. Good.
Now you are down to the basics. Change out your Ram with known good Ram. No good yet? Check that the CPU cooling fan is spinning at a good speed and that the cooling fins on the heat sink are not clogged with dust. OK? Disconnect the installed power supply and temporarily connect in a substitute. Change out the CPU with a known good one. Still no good. As a final resort replace the motherboard.
These are all things that I occasionally do when I am working on a customers computer. There is no magic bullet that does this for you. It is a process of elimination.
A few years back I did all of this and could not come up with any problem. The computer worked fine in my shop. I gave it back to the customer. The next day he was back complaining of the same condition as previously. I hooked up the computer while he was there. It worked fine. Well, the next day he was back.
It still worked fine in the shop so I decided to burn it in for an extended amount of time. I took it home with me, connected it up to a spare monitor, keyboard and mouse. It ran fine for 3 days. I gave it back to him.
Sure enough, the next day he was back. I asked him to go home and bring in his monitor, keyboard and mouse.
It was his keyboard that was causing all the problems! The computer just would not boot when his keyboard was connected. The monitor screen remained blank.
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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
"Techinc7" <Techinc7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:28814BAD-9052-4696-ABD7-D29163EC82AA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I pulled off a confirmed-working CDROM drive from another working PC to be
sure the cause of the problem wasn't from the optical drive but still not
copy. The CDROM IDE cable was replaced with one from working PC; Non of the
WinXP CDs has scratches on it... i also tried to install with and other WinXP
CD to be certain the problem wasn't from the WinXP installation CD but still
not copy
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