I'm in the middle of a clean install of xp home w/ sp3 slipstreamed on a
Gateway laptop model no. 4026 and have encountered 3 never-seen-before odd
behaviors, 1 of which prevents the completion of the installation. First,
the five green bubbles indicator near the bottom right of the screen that
scrolls from left to right to signal installation activity is scrolling in
warp speed. Second, the time in the "Date and Time Settings" dialog window
is scrolling upwards in warp speed. Lastly (and this is the point that
keeps the installation from completing), after getting through the first 3
or 4 windows asking for basic user input such as date, time, time zone,
owner's name and company, computer description, etc. and just after
installation of the network, a window pops up asking for the insert of the
disc labeled "windows xp home edition service pack 3 cd".

Thus far, I've done a full memtest without errors so the ram doesn't appear
to be the problem. I've also done a spinrite on the harddrive and no errors
were reported.

The system specs are: 1.3GHz Celeron, 1GB 333 MHz DDR SODIMM ram, 40 GB IBM
Travelstar harddrive.

"neO" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4d72df02$0$12978$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm in the middle of a clean install of xp home w/ sp3 slipstreamed on a
> Gateway laptop model no. 4026 and have encountered 3 never-seen-before odd
> behaviors, 1 of which prevents the completion of the installation. First,
> the five green bubbles indicator near the bottom right of the screen that
> scrolls from left to right to signal installation activity is scrolling in
> warp speed. Second, the time in the "Date and Time Settings" dialog
> window
> is scrolling upwards in warp speed. Lastly (and this is the point that
> keeps the installation from completing), after getting through the first 3
> or 4 windows asking for basic user input such as date, time, time zone,
> owner's name and company, computer description, etc. and just after
> installation of the network, a window pops up asking for the insert of the
> disc labeled "windows xp home edition service pack 3 cd".
>
> Thus far, I've done a full memtest without errors so the ram doesn't
> appear
> to be the problem. I've also done a spinrite on the harddrive and no
> errors
> were reported.
>
> The system specs are: 1.3GHz Celeron, 1GB 333 MHz DDR SODIMM ram, 40 GB
> IBM
> Travelstar harddrive.
>
>
>

Sounds to me like your slipstreamed cd isn't exactly what you think it
should be? Can't you just provide a cd with service pack 3 on it as believe
it can be downloaded, perhaps even as an ISO.

On 03/05/2011 10:09 PM, pjp wrote:
> "neO"<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4d72df02$0$12978$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I'm in the middle of a clean install of xp home w/ sp3 slipstreamed on a
>> Gateway laptop model no. 4026 and have encountered 3 never-seen-before odd
>> behaviors, 1 of which prevents the completion of the installation. First,
>> the five green bubbles indicator near the bottom right of the screen that
>> scrolls from left to right to signal installation activity is scrolling in
>> warp speed. Second, the time in the "Date and Time Settings" dialog
>> window
>> is scrolling upwards in warp speed. Lastly (and this is the point that
>> keeps the installation from completing), after getting through the first 3
>> or 4 windows asking for basic user input such as date, time, time zone,
>> owner's name and company, computer description, etc. and just after
>> installation of the network, a window pops up asking for the insert of the
>> disc labeled "windows xp home edition service pack 3 cd".
>>
>> Thus far, I've done a full memtest without errors so the ram doesn't
>> appear
>> to be the problem. I've also done a spinrite on the harddrive and no
>> errors
>> were reported.
>>
>> The system specs are: 1.3GHz Celeron, 1GB 333 MHz DDR SODIMM ram, 40 GB
>> IBM
>> Travelstar harddrive.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Sounds to me like your slipstreamed cd isn't exactly what you think it
> should be? Can't you just provide a cd with service pack 3 on it as believe
> it can be downloaded, perhaps even as an ISO.
>
>


I agree.

SP3 was not properly slipstreamed


It might be easier to just install XP sp2

and apply SP3 after the installation