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More info?)
A couple tips
i) Make sure your bios is up to date. Since at this point, Asus won't be
pushing out anymore bios updates for that motherboard, you might as well get
the very last beta version.
ii) You'd probably be better off doing a clean install.
Instructions to do this can be found here.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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"Kevo" <Kevo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Bob,
> You wrote
>
>> I've used XP with my CUV4X for about three years now.
>> Never any problems; smooth as glass.
>
> That's great news, Bob - now at least I can eliminate 1 possibility. I've
> been trying for about a week to effect an upgrade from 98se to xp, and
> during
> an early phase of installation (preparation) I get a block, accompanied by
> the Fatal Error message that the system cannot create a temporary folder.
> That sounded to me like space, of which I actually have plenty (16GB), but
> then I thought of hardware compatability. If the motherboard is OK from
> your
> experience I'm not at all sure what else to do. I've removed all sorts of
> software and hardware just to be on the safe side - still no joy.
> Thanks for your reply anyway.
> Kevo
>