Here is an easier way to do the Fresh Install with no ACPI. When setup is loading, the blue screen will ask if you have any raid devices, and to press F6. When it does that, press and hold F7, & Congratulations! No ACPI will be installed.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedWhat would be the procedure for me to change from Windows XP to Windows 2000? Does XP have to be uninstalled or can I install 2000 without that requirement? Someone told me that I could just install 2000 and, that, in effect, would override XP. But, I don't want to goof something up so I thought I had better check with the experts here first.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI just opened this computer I got from tigerdirect.com and I was loading windows 2000 pro onto it...It loads half way and I get this message:
ACPI Bios not fully compliant with the ACPI specification.
So I did what I read and When Setup starts again, press F7 (not F6) when you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver" screen.
Windows automatically disables the installation of the ACPI HAL and installs the Standard PC HAL.
So win2k is installed but I cant seem to get onto the internet and update any of the drivers.
THe computer is a IBM netvista 8307 model. They had some deal on it awhile back for less than $150..so I couldnt pass it up.
Im kinda lost right now..not sure what the problem is.
I did add a new video card before I installed the OS. could that have been the problem?
If so..how would I go about fixing this.
I've been getting a lot of BSOD on my XP notebook (P4 3ghz, 784 ram). Sometimes it will say an ACPI.sys error, or a Bad Pool Caller, etc.I've done some looking and it seems it's a bad driver (well, other posts say that). How do you go about finding which driver it is? There's gotta be 100s of them.....
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have just installed a fresh copy of windows XP sp2 on 2 machines. Both Dell Optiplex desktops. Usually it prompts that it has found new hardware for each device it hasn't found drivers for. Device manager lists them with a yellow exclamation icon.Problem I have now though is that the fresh install of XP does not show these prompt at all, although device manager lists them and if i go in there and update driver the device works.The problem I have is that basically i usually copy a driver heirarchy to the systemdrive and point the registry at them, which results in automatic installation on boot. This no longer works and I assume they are related as it doesn't look like it's automatically trying to install these devices.Is there a setting somewhere, seems very strange, what with it being a fresh install?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have two computers, one I use for gaming, the other for school. Both computers had 60gb Maxtor (school with lots of room, gaming with about 10 gb free). My school HD took a powder (the evil clicky noise of doom), but I was able to back up my files prior to that. Me being a quick thinker, I decide to upgrade my gamer puter to a 120gb (don't wanna go too nutso, as I am considering building a much superior computer), and put the good 60 gb in my old Athlon 700. Problem? I cannot get Windows XP Home to complete install on my gamer computer. (Athlon 700 installed just fine with 'good' 60gb).Gamer Computer: Athlon 1800+, 512MB DDR Ram 2100, KR7A Raid MOBO, GeForce3 Ti 200 (128MB DDR RAM), SB Audigy 2(AGP).
It is a RAID mobo, but i do not use the raid functionality, I did not have a problem before(I have my HD and my 2 roms on ide now). I go through the install steps, and I get to the very very end, where it states you are about to start Windows XP, and then it hangs, and thats it.I have tried to ensure there are no conflicts, I pulled out my sound card as well as my network card, and 're-seated' my video card and RAM. I have tried looking at using a winxp bootup floppy, booted into safe mode (the only error it detects is the missing RAID, no conflicts detected there). Heck, I even swapped out mouse and keyboard. I tried putting back the good 60gb back in the pc, and reformatting, but still get the same thing(sometimes the screen is black, sometimes the icky blue of xp, but that's it).I have no idea now. I did make sure that my bios was up to date before taking down the system originally, and it was, so no change was made there. Even swapped out the ribbon cables to ensure nothing was damaged on original removal.
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Here goes, I had a dual boot system then I deinstalled Windows 7. I believe that Windows 7 leaves the boot loader so i ended up with.
Hard Drive 2: Bootable: Opening up the choise of OS between Windows 7 (even though Not installed hence my beliefe taht Win 7 leaves behind the boot loader). So on this screen I choose "earlier versions of windows and then it boots:
Hard Drive 1: Which has XP.
Since I wanted to clean this up I am trying a new install. Therefore I removed Hard Drive 2 and ran Win XP pro setup. Foolishly I believed someone who told me that there would be no problems. That XP would make HArd Drive one bootable and that then XP would install correctly.
I should perhaps note that I used a new copy of XP with service packs as I thought it would make more sense than the XP I've used previously which was the first version of XP.
Firstly, XP formatted the hard drive. Detected no problems. Then it copied across files. No Problem. Then on first loading XP I got the error message "Your BIOS" is not ACPI compliant. Contact Hardware Update.com to get update.
I have installed XP many many times on my system with exactly the same hardware and I have never got this message. Therefore I thought that maybe it was something to do with Windows 7 affecting the BIOS or maybe that XP with service packs conflicts with my motherboard. So I tried an earlier version of XP Pro that didn't have the service packs included.
Same message came up at the same time. On first running XP it gets to the Microsoft logo and then the same message comes up "BIOS not ACPI compliant."
At this point I thought that maybe the best thing would be to remove the CMOS battery. Clear the CMOS and therefore any bios setting would revert back to default and I could then proceed.
At this point when I rebooted the BIOS failed to detect the hard drive at all. I replaced it with another hard drive but still the BIOS doesn;t see a hard drive. I tried changing the SATA cables, changing which SATA port the drive connects too. I've now tested the hard drives in another PC and they are working.
So to recap:
BIOS doesn;t detect hard Drive.
Even when it did the XP installalation freezes at the fist run of XP saying BIOS not ACPI compliant.
As noted the hard drives worked before . I've reinstalled many times and never had any problems.
I am a total loss how to proceed. I've thought about flashing the BIOS with an update but since I've installed XP with exactly the same hard drive why should XP suddenly talk about ACPI. The BIOS not seeing a hard drive at all is weird. Even though I've changed SATA connectors on the hard drives and which connect to the Motherboard I'd expect it to see something.
ANy help very very much appreciated
Wanted to do a fresh install. I want to wipe the HD clean before I start a clean install. Any programs out there for doing this?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to reinstall a fresh, liscenced copy of XP (sp2), but when I get the windows disc to boot, my keyboard won't work. I've tried to keep in both the usb port and to use the adapter to stick it into the dedicated keyboard slot - no luck with either. Do I have a driver issue? Under admnistrative tools/computer management/keyboards/hid keyboard device/driver/driver details, I have two different driver entries: the highlighted one on top says WINDOWS/system32/DRIVERS/kbdclass.sys and the unhighlighted one below it says WINDOWS/system32/DRIVERS/kbdhid.sys. I seem to remember adding or updating my keyboard driver at some point, but I'm not entirely sure. Can I/should I restore the kbdhid.sys driver, and if so, how do I do that exactly? Do I have some other issue? A USB driver issue perhaps? I have a number of different usb drivers as well.
As a corollary, when booting with a bootable disc (the XP disc and with my BIOS set to boot from disc first), the program asks to hit any key to boot from disc. With my keyboard plugged in normally (to the usb port), I get no response at that stage. Using the adapter, plugged into the dedicated keyboard spot, I CAN get a response, but then get no response (from either usb or dedicated keyboard connector.) when the XP disc boots up to the blue option screen.My computer knowledge is adequate but not extensive. I did build my system, but it was my first build.
I'm doing a fresh xp install on an older hp ze5700. I am able to get the machine to recognize the cd drive initially and go thru the install up until it has to reboot to set up windows. then it seems the laptop does not recoginze the cd drive and freezes on the 'setting up windows' part.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently got some virus which kept on duplicating, so my AVG antivirus could not permanently delete. So I did a clean reinstall of Windows XP Pro 32 bit with a full reformat. It is still very buggy. Some of the bugs even resemble the errors I was having before the reinstall. There were things like "could not load cmd.exe", AVG antivirus marking almost every Window's .exe as a Heur virus, "could not load login because of data execution prevention", and programs like Windows Media Player 11 and Visual Studio not being able to be completely installed.
Should I be concerend that this is a hardware issue? The harddrive should be OK because a full format should have detected bad sectors. Maybe my RAM is damaged?
I have just done a fresh install of Windows XP - all is fine.Question - I am just downloading 92 updates from the M/soft site!!! Is there anyway to get hold of these and burn them to a CD so next time.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'll buy a new motherboard with video card, cpu and memory but I will keep the old HDD. My old mobo is burnt so I can't boot the PC. I want to do a fresh install on C: but I have some data that I need. I have a few ideas but I don't know if they'll work.
1)Can I use Windows XP Live USB edition to boot with the new mobo, copy the data from C: to another partition and then do a clean Windows install(well, only the C: partition)?
2)What if I do a Windows Repair Install, copy the data from C: to another drive and then do a clean install?(I don't think this is a good option because the user settings and program files will be deleted and I want to keep them so I will know what apps will I have to install.
Trying to do a completely fresh install of XP on a mates computer. I have booted from 2 seperate windows xp discs (both of which have worked fine previously). It gets a small way into the setup (just past RAID drivers etc) then asks "Please insert Windows XP Disk 2 or whatever (depending on which windows version) in Drive A: and press any key to continue." I have never had this happen before and am not sure how to get past it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm getting ready to reformat my XP machine, it's long over due. Since I'm stuck with my older hardware: Intel P4, AGP, I'm trying to pull every available once of performance out. I'm trying not to leave anything on the table, but I'm not spending any more $$$ right now.I have 2 physical HD's. a SATA II (3.0) 320 Gig. This drive is pulled directly into the MB. Right now, it has 2 logical partitions, but only about 80G total is in use for my OS + Apps. The other drive is a SATA (1.5) 400 Gig. This drive is plugged into the PCI card that came with it, as opposed to my MB because my MB won't recognize it. It also has 2 partitions but is used only for my data and for keeping revisions of the same file. (I back up to both an external HD and an internal backup service.)
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am working with a small school as IT help (along with other hats). We recently replaced PC's in a computer lab with new IMACs. I now have these older PC's that came preinstalled with Windows XP Home on them. I was going to keep them around to use as back-ups in the classrooms or additions for tutoring,etc. My first question is, since they were used for about 2-3 years in a lab scenario, should I do a fresh install of Windows Xp or just try to clean them up the best I can. (They all are DELL running 797mhz and 512mb RAM.)
If a fresh install is the best option, I have another question.
What do I have to do to do a fresh install?? Do I just format the hard drive and restart with the XP disk inserted?? Is it that simple or is there more to it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedLate lastnight I was attacked by a nasty virus that wouldn't give control of my computer back, every attempt at a "System Restore" was met by the virus blocking my attempt. I was able to do a "System Restore" via "Safe Mode" but strange things began to happen even after the restore point, so I saved as many family pictures as possible. Bottomline, is there a safe way to scan my thumb drive for virus so that I can add my family pictures to my new fresh install?
View 49 Replies View RelatedI have never had this problem before but I am trying to do a fresh install of windows xp home on a dell dimension 2400 desktop. I deleted the current partition and then continued with the install. The computer is only currently at the "Installing Windows" portion right now and I started it at 10am this morning. So at my time it has been 7 and 1/2 hours so far. Its not frozen either. Does anyone know why it might be taken so long to install?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have an IBM Thinkpad R51, which had Ubuntu before (and XP a long time ago.Now I reinstalled Windows XP (licensed, just in case you ask). But the wireless network adapter (internal) doesn't seem to be recognized. So I downloaded and installed the driver, but it doesn't do anything. I went to see if XP recognized the card but it doesn't, it is listed in "Other hardware" with a question mark.I do not have a wireless icon either in the notification area or the Network Connections.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedOK, I just finished building my PC, but I can't figure out how to install XP (don't stop reading, it isn't that easy).I get XP Pro SP2 through the Microsoft Campus Agreement for free, since I'm a full time student, it's legit.Problem is, they can only provide it as a self extracting executable.I can't get it on a bootable cd.I want to do a clean install, without installing a previous version of windows and then installing XP pro on top.
View 15 Replies View RelatedBasically the first time I tried installing windows (pro sp2 from my alienware) I used the floppy set and I got through to the installation screen just fine but it wouldnt read the disk in the drive. So I thought it may have been my disk. I tried 3 other disks ( 2 different burned disks and an authentic windows pro sp 2 disk) none of them worked. So now I figured that it may have been the driver for my dvd burner drive. So I tried using a boot disk with some generic drivers on it. First I tried loading a win98 boot disk which did not work. Then I tried an XP boot disk with some drivers and that didnt work. (what I mean when I say it didnt work is that when I tried installing off the three different disks in conjunction with the setup floppies) Then I tried using a 95 boot disk and still, nothing happens. Except now im having even bigger problems. I cant even boot floppies anymore. It seems like any or all the drivers I got from the boot disks completely ****ed up my system and im unable to do anything at all.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI've had this Compaq since 2004. I've added a gig of RAM, a 250gb SATA HDD, and a 6600GT card.
Anyway, I want to do a clean install of XP, which I've never done. I've cleared a bunch of space on my 250gb HD and transfered all the files im going to keep from C: to the 250gb.
So my question is what will happen to my 250gb drive? Do I have to disconnect it? Will XP recognize it after the clean install? What about the extra RAM and 6600gt?
I formatted the PC, reinstalled WIndows XP w/SP1. I've got Norton Personal Firewall and Norton ANtivirus installed, all up to date. I have Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware 6 installed, also all up to date. They catch nothing. Everything works peachy keen for a while, but then, I cannot open new instances of programs(such as IE or Firefox), taskmanager will not open on my screen(the the CPU meter appears in taskbar), and attempts to install programs while this is going on causes the isntall to hang, and things to get really messed. I even formatted agian, reiinstalled XP again, and it's STILL happening. I've downloaded all the security patches from Microsoft, except SP2 it hangs because of the problem stated above
I have done a fresh installation of XP Pro SP3 but my firewall (Sygate) and the Wireless icon (in the toolbar) takes about 1 minute to load/show up. Prior to doing the fresh install, these used to come up/display immediately. I have the latest windows updates (i guess as of a few days back). Some details which might be useful:Actually before it share the details may i request a freeware which allows capture of text from dialog boxes. I have tried ctrl+C and vaguely remember someone sharing a tip sometime back about some freeware for this... Lesson learned. Should bookmark things or download them to a safe folder rather than temp Am using WZC though i have installed the latest driver from Intel's site [Intel (R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (driver version used is 13.1.1.1] Do not have any junk in my start-up other than Sygate and anti-virus.
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