Trying without success to install XP Pro on a PC that runs W2K very happily.
Have run the upgrade check and no problems are seen. The computer is an old
Shuttle/AMD K6 and there is no BIOS upgrade available to make it ACPI
Compliant.
The install is fine until after the files have been copied over but at that
reboot point nothing further happens. This leads me to think that it is an
ACPI issue - does anybody have a work round for this? The PC is more than
capable of doing anything I want it to do in W2K but I have a spare unused
XP Pro full CD and I'd like to use it!!!
Thanks in advance for any help offered.

When XP install presents the F5 for drivers, instead press F6.
This causes the install to stop and wait for the user to select the
HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) to use. Choose Standard
PC. Post install you may have to add the APM driver to allow
XP to turn off the PC automatically.

"El.Plates" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Trying without success to install XP Pro on a PC that runs W2K very
> happily. Have run the upgrade check and no problems are seen. The computer
> is an old Shuttle/AMD K6 and there is no BIOS upgrade available to make it
> ACPI Compliant.
> The install is fine until after the files have been copied over but at
> that reboot point nothing further happens. This leads me to think that it
> is an ACPI issue - does anybody have a work round for this? The PC is more
> than capable of doing anything I want it to do in W2K but I have a spare
> unused XP Pro full CD and I'd like to use it!!!
> Thanks in advance for any help offered.
>

Thanks very for your reply, I tried what you suggested (take it you meant
when presented with F6 to press F5). When I did this there was nothing on
the screen that said about selecting HAL, what I did get was the choice of
Standard PC with C-Step i486 or Other. I selected the former but I still get
the same result. Do you see anything else that I might try?
Thanks so much,

How dumb was I...scrolled up and there was an option if Standard Computer.
But the bad news is that even with this option taken I still have the
original problem. Have tried this as a clean install and as an update, any
ideas what else I might try?
Thanks again