System32 drivers - failure to boot.

[A+ fail]

Hello All.
I got an HP tower, P4 and successfully installed windows XP on to it. I had an issue installing the driver for the built in network card and on a reboot I found that the windows failes to load. It reads "Windows cannot stsrt because - system 32\drivers\pci.sys is missing"
It said place original CD in drive and press r at first screen, in an attempt to repair. This fails to work and I get a blue screen with error code 7 or 4 on it.

Any advise is welcome.

[WEW]

I am not super familiar with hp,,, I do have instructions for my son's hp pc, which is an hp pavilion. Do u have the instructions for win install? If it were me i'd try to hit the f key to format and recover. If prompted try to recover from discs... some of the information in the rocovery partition may be corrupt. Good luck. hope this will help!

[patio]

Where is your HP Driver CD ? ?
The correct drivers will be on it.
If you are getting errors you may need to re-install the chipset drivers as well.

[A+ fail]

Thanks for your help but after a couple of reboots  -  it worked and I don't know why.

[patio]

I don't either...but it's good news.

[BC_Programmer]

and we can cautiously assume it's a once in a blue-moon experience.