XP Home & VIA Chipsets

[Shankster]

I am an old fart and a newbie @ computing (started in '99). My problem is: I have built 2 computers w/ VIA chipset mobos, a ABIT VH6 (w/ Celeron/66mHz bus)for my dad and an ASUS A7V133 (w/ Duron and Athlon) for a nephew. After installing XP Home, both systems have, after 1 to 6 weeks of on and off operation, refused to boot and displayed this message "...missing or corrupted file C:\WINDOWS\system 32\configsys\ ..." and then HAl.dll, explore.exe or some other needful file to start Windows. Installing different RAM or Windows SP1 does not help. I replaced nephew's A7V133 w/ ECS K7S5A using all the other original hardware and haven't had any further probs.
The question is: Does this problem have anything to do w/ the VIA chipsets and/or the drivers that XP Home installs and how can I correct this ?!? Because replacing mobos and CPU's is kind of expensive!!!
P.S. One of the IT guys @ work is using the A7V133 under Win 2000 Pro and says it works great !!!

 

[Sushi]

Interesting situation. Driver conflicts on the chipset would be my suspect. If you check out the manufacturer websites, you may find drivers for those specific mobos. Are you installing the via 4-in-1 drivers that come with the mobos? New versions come out all the time, and you can download them from here. I also suggest checking windows update and the microsoft knowledge base to see if this is an identified issue.

Good luck, and I hope this helps you a bit