I have XPhome and if I power cycle my computer I have no control over my USB Logitech trackball mouse until I unplug and plug it back in then every thing works fine. If I restart windows the mouse...

I recieved my new replacement memory last night, Windows XP install without a hitch.

hardware manager stills shows my hard drive and my cdrom as scsi,
but everything works fine, so far.

Unless...

After reading the link provided, I came to that same conclusion.
So, I went to the manufactuers website, apparenttly this happens alot with mushkin memory.

Thanks for all the suggestions....

It's a single stick of 512Mb memory.

Last night, I tried two different video cards I get this stop code during the install.

stop code 0x00000050(0xF80CFBC4,0x00000000,0xF84F034F,0x00000000)...

I am going to try a different video card. All the other hardware is new or was in perfect working order.

If I get another stop code I will include all of the info on the page.

Help I cannot get XP to install now. I get the "file xxxx.xx could not be written press enter to retry" message. At least one file will not retry. Install continues but will hang or give stop error...

Last night the system was crashing so much that I tried to reinstall. It won't. When it tries to load the files during install I get file is corrupt use ESC to skip, enter to retry or F3 to quit....

There are not any RAID options in BIOS, unfortunately.

I am wondering if there are other BIOS settings that would change things.
I am grasping at straws here.

The motherboard is an Biostar M7NCD with NVidia Force2 chipset.

Under disk drives It list my seagate drive as ST380011A SCSI Disk device
When it should be ATA.

I had a PII running XP home on a 80G seagate hard drive. I bought a bare bones system w/ AMD Athlon XP 2700+ processor and 512M of ram. The manufaceur has the XP certificate for this mother board. I...