[Umbera]

Hello ladies and gentlemen im having abit of trouble and was wondering if someone kind enough could help me out..

Well im pretty good with computers but this just puzzle's the hell out of me..

Basiclly my computer was acting up so i formatted then at to reformat because something went wrong.. On the 2nd format i deleted the partitions and re-created them , after that i got the blue screen where it says copying files over to be installed then 15seconds to reboot blah blah..

Now when the computer reboots it gets past the booting screen and onto the windows XP loading screen, half way into this it gives me the blue screen of death and most of the time "atapi.sys" is the culprit behind this. It tells me to do certain stuff like unplug any hardware recently installed and disable caching and shadowing in the BIOS (which i did) and it still says the same.

I've tried taking things out the computer such as my sound card / graphics card and sticks of ram etc and what i had taken out of the computer i tested on another to make sure each individual hardware wasnt to blame... All worked fine..

I've even made a boot disk of my own i got the files off the internet and burned them to a disk.. I still get a blue screen though and it sometimes "I8042prt.sys" or something along the lines or i get "DRIVER_IS_LESS_OR_EQUAL" or again "atapi.sys" being the culprit..

Im Proper baffled by this i've tried everything to my knowledge about computers and nothing as worked, what so ever. I even tried changing the dvd rom to another because i thought it might have even been a read error but again nope still get BSOD.. Even if i switch the hard drives it still does it argh ..

All i can do is partition the harddrives, format then let it copy files over ready for install.. anything after that is a no no

any ideas or suggestions?

[srhoades]

Based on the errors you are getting I suspect that either your motherboard is going bad or you have bad ram. I8042prt.sys is for the keyboard, atapis.sys is for the IDE controllers. Dowload the Ultimate Boot CD and test your RAM. If it tests fine, then again I suspect your board is on it's way out.

[Umbera]

Thank you very much

ill report back here as soon as its done

[managed]

Is the hard drive you're trying to install onto Sata ?