Installing Windows XP on HP Pavilion dv6000

Greetings,

I have some problems with installing Windows XP Professional on my
brand new HP Pavilion dv6000 computer. Most of the installation runs
without problems, but shortly before it completes I get the following
error message:

"An error occurred loading C:\Program Files\Common Files\System
\directdb.dll. The file may not have been installed or it has been
corrupted."

After clicking on "ok", I get the next error:

"An error occurred loading C:\Program Files\Common Files\System
\wab32.dll. The file may not have been installed or it has been
corrupted."

After clicking on "ok" again I get the last error message:

"C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe is not a valid
Wn32 application."

After clicking on "ok", the installations completes seemingly withouth
further troubles. But the result is a "half-baked" Windows, whith no
network or internet connections, several functions does not work, and
a couple of programs can not be installed. I have tried to remove
Windows and installing it again, tried to repair the existing
installation, tried to install System pack 2, but nothing has helped.

Anybody has an idea what can be wrong?

Thanks,
George

Your winxp cd is damaged in someway maybe?
Was this PC supplied with Vista preinstalled? After a successfull winxp
installation you would need to visit HP site to download winxp drivers,
assuming they exist.
Further if supplied with Vista you may find your warranty / support
nullified


<gsajo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings,
>
> I have some problems with installing Windows XP Professional on my
> brand new HP Pavilion dv6000 computer. Most of the installation runs
> without problems, but shortly before it completes I get the following
> error message:
>
> "An error occurred loading C:\Program Files\Common Files\System
> \directdb.dll. The file may not have been installed or it has been
> corrupted."
>
> After clicking on "ok", I get the next error:
>
> "An error occurred loading C:\Program Files\Common Files\System
> \wab32.dll. The file may not have been installed or it has been
> corrupted."
>
> After clicking on "ok" again I get the last error message:
>
> "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe is not a valid
> Wn32 application."
>
> After clicking on "ok", the installations completes seemingly withouth
> further troubles. But the result is a "half-baked" Windows, whith no
> network or internet connections, several functions does not work, and
> a couple of programs can not be installed. I have tried to remove
> Windows and installing it again, tried to repair the existing
> installation, tried to install System pack 2, but nothing has helped.
>
> Anybody has an idea what can be wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> George
>

Damaged installation disk?...try other install disk?
If not damaged then possibly hardware issue??....new computer so exercise
warranty...

"gsajo@hotmail.com" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have some problems with installing Windows XP Professional on my
> brand new HP Pavilion dv6000 computer. Most of the installation runs
> without problems, but shortly before it completes I get the following
> error message:
>
> "An error occurred loading C:\Program Files\Common Files\System
> \directdb.dll. The file may not have been installed or it has been
> corrupted."
>
> After clicking on "ok", I get the next error:
>
> "An error occurred loading C:\Program Files\Common Files\System
> \wab32.dll. The file may not have been installed or it has been
> corrupted."
>
> After clicking on "ok" again I get the last error message:
>
> "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe is not a valid
> Wn32 application."
>
> After clicking on "ok", the installations completes seemingly withouth
> further troubles. But the result is a "half-baked" Windows, whith no
> network or internet connections, several functions does not work, and
> a couple of programs can not be installed. I have tried to remove
> Windows and installing it again, tried to repair the existing
> installation, tried to install System pack 2, but nothing has helped.
>
> Anybody has an idea what can be wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> George
>
>