Won't load MB CD??

[Gizmokid2005]

I am more than willing to troubleshoot, I hate these little issues. I did repair XP, in fact, I did it this morning due to some more issues with linux...remnants of my little "escapade."

So, I'm willing to try almost anything....so, what's next boss?

[TurcoLoco]

I did repair XP, in fact, I did it this morning due to some more issues with linux...remnants of my little "escapade."

What do you mean you did repair? You ran the 'Repair' that comes up during the setup screen after booting to the XP CD? It should have re-installed the entire WINDOWS folder with its contents after deleting the existing one first which would also naturally rebuild a fresh registry and if that is what you did and it still didn't help then I am a bit baffled...

The only reference to errors/files you mentioned seemed to be with people who are running 64-bit version of Windows and trying to install the Asus drivers/utilities from the CD which I am assuming are designed for 32-bit OS which is what you have so it doesn't make sense only somehow the Linux installations (since they are generally 64-bit unlike Windows) caused a corruption in system to a point where the installer sees it as a 64-bit OS. This doesn't make much sense but if this is a driver CD, I would try downloading the most current drivers from Asus' web site and see if you can run their installer or not.