Re: Cannont install Windows

From: Marvin7 (shady_at_NOSPAM.cwazy.co.uk)
Date: 11/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:35:07 +1030

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT usually points to a crook memory chip 

-- 
Marvin7
"Jeevan Maathur" <jeevan.maathur@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:9aedfcfa.0411242112.7ed814c8@posting.google.com...
>I also have the same problem as Slickmink and would really appreciate
> if anyone has a fix for it. I tried downloading AMD Athlon 64 drivers
> but I don't know how to make/where to get the txtsetup.oem file, so I
> don't know how to get windows setup to use the drivers.
>
> Please post here if you have found a solution to this problem.
>
> Slickmink <Slickmink@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> news:<7C62F241-8034-463E-AD37-9612D36DBAE5@microsoft.com>...
>> Ok, I've got a serious problem with my PC and I really need some help on 
>> it.
>> Sorry if this seems abit garbled but its hard to explain. Yesterday I
>> finished building my latest creation, an Athalon 64 3000, with 1GB ram, 
>> and a
>> radeon 9600xt. The mobo is a Foxconn 755A01-6EKRS. I've got 2 HDD's one 
>> is an
>> old 20gb and the other is a newer 80gb. I've also got a DVD Writer, and a 
>> DVD
>> Player.
>>
>> The problems began when I first tried to install windows onto the PC. I
>> booted up the PC, tinkered with the Bios to boot from CD, and inserted my 
>> XP
>> cd into the drive and hey presto the install screen came up. This is when 
>> it
>> all started to go down hill. During the first installation I got 3 
>> seperate
>> error messages (that I didnt write down) basically saying that it couldnt
>> copy certain files across to my HDD. After the third error it blue 
>> screened
>> on me with a message saying that there is a problem, make sure all 
>> drivers
>> are deactivated (there are no drivers, both HDD are freshly formatted), 
>> make
>> sure the Bios doesnt have things like Shadowing running, or anything 
>> Cashing.
>> Well after that I went into my Bios again and searched around till I 
>> found
>> Shadowing and deactivated that, then retried the install. This time I got 
>> no
>> errors untill the 73% mark then it came up saying, "Cant copy file, press
>> enter to retry, f7 to contine anyway, or esc to quit". I hit enterm and 
>> to my
>> merry surprise it copied the file successfully, untill the 75% mark 3 
>> seconds
>> later, when it just gave me the same blue screen as earlier. I think this 
>> is
>> a sign that I've managed to fix some of the problems but I'm not sure. 
>> This
>> latest blue screen gave me an error saying PFN_LIST_CORRUPT 0x0000004E
>> (0x00000099, 0x0002f0BD, 0x000000003, 0x00000000).
>>
>> Personally I am completely stumped. This is the latest thing to happen to 
>> me
>> and I've given up for the moment. I started building the PC at 7pm last 
>> night
>> and finally gave up at 1am before trying again untill 1pm. I've managed 
>> to
>> get ahold of my old windows ME disk, and boot disk to get me into Dos. I 
>> had
>> an idea of install ME first and then overwriting it with XP. It gets 
>> about
>> 10% of the way into the ME install then comes up with a message saying 
>> "Setup
>> cannot copy installation files to your computer. Click ok to exit setup".
>>
>> Oh yeah, and I format of Fdisk my 20GB HDD for some reason. I've checked 
>> the
>> Bios and its definatly beging detected, and gives me all the specs of it, 
>> but
>> I cant find it at all using Fdisk. If I unplug the 80gb HDD and then try 
>> to
>> Fdisk, it says something about incompatible NTFS Partician. So I try to 
>> then
>> delete the partican and make it a FAT32 (just to make ME work for a few
>> seconds) then the whole computer crashes, and I have to reach for the 
>> reset
>> button.
>>
>> Oh, and I've also looked into the windows website and it doesnt tell me 
>> much
>> when I type in the error messages. All the fixes and work arounds it 
>> offers
>> assume that windows is already installed, so thats a no go before anyone
>> suggests it to me.
>>
>> Any help anyone may be able to offer will be GREATLY appriciated. Thanks