INSTALLIN XP PRO

[DodgeViper]

I have tried to install from a boot disk, as a upgrade to 98 SE and now I copied the i386 file to the HD. Booted in dos and redirected to install from the HD. Everything was going great until I got an error message missing mqqm.dll file. On all three trys to install I got this same message. I then did a directory search of the XP disk (F:>dir /s mqqm* and this is what I found,

Directory of F:I386
08/23/2001 04:00 250,021 MQQM.DL_
1 File(s) 250,021 bytes

Total Files Listed:
1 File(s) 250,021 bytes
0Dir(s) 0bytes free

Anybody have a clue why I cannot install. I do O/C but had the computer back to all its defaults before trying to install. Somone mentioned that I may have a bad memory address on the ram.

[Anonymous]

did you make a partition for xp?
if you create a separate partition in dos using fdisk and install xp to that partition then it should work

[Anonymous]

it could be a combination of things..check to make sure your hardware is compatible,..xp is known to be fussy with certain bios\'s..you could try loading the failsafe settings in bios and see if that helps..it doesn\'t neccessarily meen you have bad ram, it would help if you could try a different stick of ram in your machine...make sure you have a nice clean hardrive and do a clean install with xp..you can use the floppy boot up disks if your cd isn\'t bootable..and let it create a partition...if it still fails, remove all pciisa cards and leave the graphics card in, and reformat and try again..if you have a geforce graphics card this may also be the problem...but if all this fails it will probably lie in the bios..so you may want to update your bios, only updtae the bios as a last resort