XP - Missing Audio Controller?

[Anonymous]

Okay, I have an older gateway that I want to use with XP Pro.  But I want to test the waters first to make sure I won\'t run into any problems after blowing $200 on XP.  So after reading the \"WinXp Activation Crack?\" topic, I downloaded an ISO of XP Corporate from Kazaa, burned it to a CD, and install it on my gateway.  During the installation there were two files that gave me errors (Windows cannot copy this file from the CD or something like that), I can\'t remember the first one, but the second was \"dsauth.dll\"  I told the installer to ignore the errors and everything completed and seems to be working fine except the drivers for the Multimedia Audio Controller in the device manager is missing and whenever I try to reinstall them it gives me the error \"The Data is invalid.\"  I tried installing XP on another computer from the same CD and received the same results.  I even tried burning another copy and again, same results.  I\'m assuming that the at least one of the files that gave me errors during the installations are the missing drivers.  So did I download a bad copy of XP Corporate or is there some other explaination for my problem?

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Space Between]

When that release of xp came out about a year ago it seemed like 50% of the user\'s in #Winxp on efnet where saying the same thing. I remember typing to someone on how he fixed it but it was sketchy and i did comprehend it too well. you can however probably boot into safe mode and place the drivers. from there you would have to work with it but atleast it would be in safe mode. Or you could boot off the disc and choose the recovery console and place the file\'s from there. Or you could install the same copy again, watch for what it\'s barking about, take note of that and then after you boot up the second install, install those files into you first install. It\'s a pain i know but it could very well work.

as far as the actual cd i dont know. I remember tons and tons of people saying they got 2 error message\'s everytime off the same thing i know someone else you used. However when i installed that for him no error msg\'s appeared.

Nothing is wrong with it i dont believe, with the image i mean. However it could of been corrupted by the plotters against p2p by now or it could be your software. The one he used was written with DJ or Nero, had to be one of those 2. It was also burned out less than 2 days after release on the net...which would be very close to a year by now. After a year goes by who knows what could be wrong. Maybe even a possibility that a transfer corrupted a packet or 2.

If i were you i would ? the 2 files. Open them up however you have to :-P out of the i386 dir and check them. if they are working then you good to go. Now if you cannot open with what you believe should open them then i cannot help you farther on that on this board and most likely it is corrupt anyhow.

download another image without a resume, regardless whether your first one resumed or not, do a file comparison and if they match then try it. Now don\'t download a different type of image than what you already have whether it is a .img, .iso, .cdi, .nrg, .bin/cue, .nrg etc... get the same format.

also make sure the image is complete by making sure all the normal stuff is there like the setuptools and all that. and if there is a dir named BOOTFLOP or something containing the 6 boot floppy image\'s then it is NOT a orginal and you sol.