installing XP Service Pack 1

Here is my situation, maybe someone can help me out.
I put a P4 mother board in my friends Gateway after a power surge or some
other form or power spike fried her old board. After installing the board
and I fired it up i changed the bios to boot from the CD Rom. I put in the
Win XPcd and tried to do a repair. Everything was going along well untill it
asked for the Compact Disc labeled Win XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 CD. I
couldnt find that disc in the stack of restore discs she gave me, so I
downloaded a file from the file from the Microsoft site called Oxpsp1.exe.
It is asking for a file called "asms" on the Windows XP Home Edition Service
Pack 1 CD.
It also says I can click OK to copy files from an alternate location such as
a floppy disk. However the SP1 file I copied from the Microsoft site is
slightly over 17 megs.
Can someone help me out and lert me know what I need to do to find this file
and get SP1 installed?
Would I be better off formatting the drive and installing XP Home from the
beginning? Thanks for the help.

The computer is not looking for the Service Pack 1 CD, you need to insert
the Windows XP CD.
The Windows XP CD probably includes SP-1.

I have the Windows XP Home CD in the rom drive. However it is asking
this...."The file 'asms' on Windows XP Home Service Pack 1 CD is needed" Is
says to type the path where the file is located and I dont have a clue where
it is located.

I looked at the setuperr.log and it says....D:\I386\OEMBIOS.cat is
invalid...Error Code is 80096019
A certificate's basic constraint extension has not been observed
Fatal Error..One of the components that Windows needs to continue setup
could not be installed. Operation cancels by the user.

Perhaps this will help. It says the reason for this error (note that the
title of the CD is different, but that's picked up by the installer) is
usually that the PC can't communicate with the CD drive.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311755

OXPSP1.exe is from Microsoft Office, not Windows

I ended up formatting the drive and doing a new install of Win XP Home.
Everything is working fine so far, however i do need to activate XP. I have
a couple questions about registering, activating and validating, but I will
ask that in a seperate post. Thanks for all the help

[cerene]

I am having the same problem, how do you reformat the drive?

What same problem? Why have you not included original message for us to
follow it through?

To format your HD, you need to boot your system with your XP CD. Please
tell us exactly what you are trying to do as we don't know yet what your
problem is. XP SP1 is very old and you should move away from it and
install SP3 now. You can't even download SP1. I suspect even SP1a is
not available from Microsoft website.

It's still available:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...0-c6a43430f12a
but I agree with your advice unless OP has a specific reason for wanting
SP1a. Not enough info.

The link you have provided is for the patch to SP1a (size 1.9 mb) I
believe the original big file (some 127 mb) is no longer available but
somebody must have online. I have SP1, SP1a, SP2 and SP3 full-file
versions that I keep just in case they are needed while I am still using
XP professional. I am buying a new system from DELL that will come with
Vista Ultimate (with free Windows 7 upgrade after 22nd October 2009)
that is when I will wipe clean my collections of hotfixes, patches and SPs.