Many thanks. Great info here. Good news the chkdsk /r worked and system boots up correctly. Don't plan on flashing the chipset again any time soon. :emotion-5: Thanks again.
Hi All, Checking the drivers on the download pages and found one for my Dimmension 8400. It was a chipset update marked as urgent so I tried installing it and part way through I got a blue screen warning telling me to switch off and restart. I did this and now it won't boot. I was getting "system32/drivers/pci.sys" missing or corrupted. So tried recovery console with a friends xp home disk as I can't find mine and followed instructions I had seen on another forum to change to cd drive ie f:  Then cd to i386, so f:\i386 Then typed "expand pci.sy_ c:\pci.sys". This was supposed to copy or replace the damaged file on my c disk. But all I get is an error saying unable to do (can't remember the exact wording). I am currently chkdsk /r. I tried with /f but this doesn't seem to work from the install disk. Anyone with ay ideas what else I should try or have I used incorrect syntax above? Desperately need some expert assistance. Many thanks.
Installed Intel Chipset driver now won't boot