Two things come to mind.
Your BIOS can't be compatible with XP since XP changes all the rules about
how a BIOS and the OS inter-react... (This is a feature, not a bug...)
Some where right near the beginning of the XP installation, you need to hit a key
that will allow you to "force" a generic HAL. (Hardware Abstraction Layer.)
You want one with NO power management. (That is what ACPI stands for.)

As far as files not found when you KNOW they are there during an install.
I get that when my RAM is marginally defective.  You might want to beg, (or
borrow) some different RAM.   Good luck...

                                 Rick Glazier

From: "GeorgeMary" <[log in to unmask]>

> Machine is homebuilt...AOpen MX3ZA motherboard w/Award BIOS rev 1.02  Oct
> 99...latest version I could find.  Celeron running at 400mhz, 192m RAM, 30G
> WD harddrive, samsung CDROM and HiVal CDRW.  System was Windows XP SP1.
> After a failed linux install with a bad CD my XP installation would not
> boot.  The partitioning to ext3 and swap was already done. I tried to
> reinstall, but the setup said it couldn't copy various files(usually
> qdvd.dll among others) and would exit when I tried to skip the files.  I
> then copied the XP CD to the Harddrive and tried from there.  Still same
> response.  Figuring a hardware problem I reformated and installed Windows
> 98se from the CD and everything went fine...from either drive.  I then tried
> to reinstall XP.  The files seemed to copy OK but then after the initial
> restart I got a black screen saying Line 157 of INF file \txtsetup.sif is
> invalid.  I tried to look at line 157 of the file while in Win98, but there
> were no line numbers.  A Google search on the file had something to do with
> ACPI, so I changed the line as they(JSI) suggested, but still the same
> response.  I have torn the machine apart and reassembled, disabled cache in
> BIOS (desperate) and nothing seems to change.  Rapidly approaching the hair
> removal stage.  Has anyone had this or a similar problem?
> George&Mary Skokan ([log in to unmask])

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