I think there may be a syntax error in your post. By "reboot" you seem 
to mean "reinstall" XP. If that is the case, for future reference you 
should only reinstall XP as a last resort. In the current case, your ISP 
was probably the culprit. There are a number of reasons for temporary 
service failures and you just have to wait. If it happens too often, you 
might consider a new ISP.

Since the computer was working well after your build (congratulations), 
I would probably go back to that point by Fdisking and formatting the 
hard drive using the utilities provided by Western Digital. Then install 
XP and install the updates as you did before. The reason for this 
approach is that there are probably some updated files on the hard drive 
that XP will not install on top of.

I hope this helps.

Tom Mayer

Nathan wrote:
> Okay I posted a thread on here asking for help with XP wich I think still might be the problem however: I am new to building PC's and think maybe theres hardware issues that I'm not seeing.
>
>      Here's the specs.
>                    1. Intel DG965SS micro atx mobo with lga 775 socket
>                    2. Intel core 2 duo 6400 cpu
>                    3. 2 gig patriot ddr2 667 sdram 2 1gig sticks
>                    4. Western digital caviar 320gb SATA hard drive
>                    5. Liteon cd/DVD burner
>                    6.  Windows XP professional.
>
>   Here's the scoop.  Put the pieces together and started her up and it worked fine even after installing XP.  I updated the BIOS and drivers for the mobo, and agian everthing worked fine.  One fine day the internet was not working after several attempts I figured just reboot the thing and this is the black cloud.  XP formated the hardrive now durring the set up process it cannot coppy certain files to the harddrive.  VDMINDVD  WOWFAX and several of the USR" " files.  Microsoft said it was the CD got it replaced still having the same problems.  Help Help Help.
>
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