HP 6710B - BSOD when accessing Power icon in WinXP

[David Brookes]

I am currently trying to setup a dual boot arrangement for XP/Vista (and in
the future XP/Windows 7) and am having problems. I have partition my HDD as
the following: 20GB for XP (for gaming backward compatibility) and the rest
for Vista (Work). I have install XP via the XP Restore CD, installed the
Application and Driver Recovery CD for XP and install XP SP3. Now when I
click on the power icon in Control Panel, the laptop BSOD's and reboots
everytime - I have not had a problem in Vista at all so I think it is a XP
related problem. PLEASE HELP!!!

 

[Rich Barry]

David, did you reinstall SP2 before installing SP3??.

 

[David Brookes]

No - I didn't think I needed to.

David, did you reinstall SP2 before installing SP3??.

 

[David Brookes]

No - I didn't think I needed to re-install SP3 before installing SP3

 

[Rich Barry]

Take a look here
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/SP2-SP3-Query-ftopict379118.html

 

[David Brookes]

Rich

SP2 was apart of the XP Restore CD I used for my HP laptop - should I deploy
SP3 and then run the Application and Driver Recovery CD?

 

[Rich Barry]

Does XP behave normally other than clicking on the Power Icon?
What is the message that the BSOD gives you?
What is the make and model of your Laptop?? You said that
the WinXP Restore CD has SP2 on it?

 

[David Brookes]

XP seems to behave normally - laptop is a HP 6710B - 2GB RAM 160GB HDD -
partitioned 20GB for XP and the rest will be for dual booted Vista - version
of XP restore CD supplied with laptop is XP SP2 pre-activated

 

[David Brookes]

Rich

Have done a rebuild of my laptop with XP - installing in the following
order: XP from the Restore CD, XP SP3 - no BSOD on the power icon yet - will
be installing the drivers and if there is no problems - anything else I need
from the Drivers and Apps CD.

 

[David Brookes]

Rich

Install all HP Drivers and utilities/apps from the Applications and Drivers
CD - no BSOD on the Power icon - still have to install IE7 / .Net
1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5/3.5 SP1 and Windows Media Player to bring the laptop up to my
Base Image - one thing I didn't still was the SP2 Enchancements that was on
the Applications and Drivers CD - no need since I had already installed SP3.
Will be installing IE7 / .Net 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5/3.5 SP1 and Windows Media
Player with VirtualDrive and Ccleaner when I get home after work tomorrow
night - then I am going to ghost it with Norton Ghost 14.0.

 

[David Brookes]

Rich

Installed all the bits and pieces tonight without any problems and have
Ghost-imaged the laptop's HDD - no problems - test restoration when fine as
well. Thank you for your help.