1. Is it "XP ready still."
2. When you say, "then something always happens", we wouldn't know what that is unless you give explicit details.
3. Since it's "home built", tell some more about the machine, for sure the wattage of the "power supply".
I am trying to load windows. I have tried 2000, 2000 server, 2003 server, and windows xp pro. I have gotten as far as finish copying files and then something always happens. A file will be missing or something corrupted. Every time it is a different file. This is a home build and I know that windows has been run on this machine before. It is an ECS k7som+ mb with a duron 1.3 . No hardware has been changed in any way since windows was running the last time. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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