HP pavilion dv1000 series notebook XP reinstall problem

[deloprator20000]

My friend has an HP pavilion dv1000 series notebook, which he bought
used without manuals or recovery CDs. The notebook has the following
features:

Processor
Intel Core Duo processor T2300 1.66GHz/667MHz
L2 Cache Size
2MB
Chip set:
Mobile Intel? 945 Express Chipset (Not Sure)
Hard drive
60GB 5400RPM SATA HDD
Memory
512MB DDR2 (533Mhz) 2DM (256MB*2)
Display panel
14 LCD Monitor WXGA 1280*768/BrightView Technology
Web Cam
HP Pavilion WebCam with integrated Microphone
Video graphic
Intel? Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Optical science drive
DVD/CD-RW COMBO Drive
P C card
ExpressCard/54k modem
Media card
6-in-1 digital media leader slot internal organs (xD, SD, MMC
and
Memory stick and Memory stick pro and Smart Media)
Audio
Integrated AC'97 Audio Codec
Network
High-speed 56K modems and 10/100 LAN internal organs, 802.11,
b/g
and BlueTooth
Operation setup
Windows XP Home Edition sp2
I/O pots
VGA
USB 2.0 (3 pots) A
IEEE 1394A
RJ-11A
RJ45 (LAN) A
Headphone A
With microphone phone A
S-video outA
xb2000

He wanted to reformat the harddrive and reinstall a clean version of
WinXP pro. He attempted to reinstall winXP Pro from a burned winXP OS
installation CD but ran into some problems during the installation,
right at the point when winXP attempts to start the installation
program (you know the blue screen with the status indicator on the
bottom telling you "WinXP is searching for drivers etc.") it
immediately goes to a dark blue screen with an error message of the
form 0xF899663C, etc, etc. The way the guy got WinXP to install was to
install win98 from the OEM WinXP installation, then install WinXP
through the Win98 installation.

So I attempted to reinstall winXP, booting directly from the
installation CD. I went into bios and configured it to boot from the
CDROM, I put CDROM to the top of the boot order, rebooted and computer
simply booted from the HD without asking me if I wanted to boot from
the CDROM(I had the installation CD in there). I tried this several
times, same result. I also tried increasing the time for POST tests
same result. Did HP modify their notebooks so it won't boot from
certain (burned) discs, or from non-HP recovery discs? Does anyone know
how I
can force this notebook to boot directly from a winXP installation CD?

Also would the SATA hard drive cause any problems in regards to the
winXP reinstallation?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You

 

[Grinder]

My friend has an HP pavilion dv1000 series notebook, which he bought
used without manuals or recovery CDs. The notebook has the following
features:

Processor
Intel Core Duo processor T2300 1.66GHz/667MHz
L2 Cache Size
2MB
Chip set:
Mobile Intel? 945 Express Chipset (Not Sure)
Hard drive
60GB 5400RPM SATA HDD
Memory
512MB DDR2 (533Mhz) 2DM (256MB*2)
Display panel
14 LCD Monitor WXGA 1280*768/BrightView Technology
Web Cam
HP Pavilion WebCam with integrated Microphone
Video graphic
Intel? Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Optical science drive
DVD/CD-RW COMBO Drive
P C card
ExpressCard/54k modem
Media card
6-in-1 digital media leader slot internal organs (xD, SD, MMC
and
Memory stick and Memory stick pro and Smart Media)
Audio
Integrated AC'97 Audio Codec
Network
High-speed 56K modems and 10/100 LAN internal organs, 802.11,
b/g
and BlueTooth
Operation setup
Windows XP Home Edition sp2
I/O pots
VGA
USB 2.0 (3 pots) A
IEEE 1394A
RJ-11A
RJ45 (LAN) A
Headphone A
With microphone phone A
S-video outA
xb2000

He wanted to reformat the harddrive and reinstall a clean version of
WinXP pro. He attempted to reinstall winXP Pro from a burned winXP OS
installation CD but ran into some problems during the installation,
right at the point when winXP attempts to start the installation
program (you know the blue screen with the status indicator on the
bottom telling you "WinXP is searching for drivers etc.") it
immediately goes to a dark blue screen with an error message of the
form 0xF899663C, etc, etc. The way the guy got WinXP to install was to
install win98 from the OEM WinXP installation, then install WinXP
through the Win98 installation.

So I attempted to reinstall winXP, booting directly from the
installation CD. I went into bios and configured it to boot from the
CDROM, I put CDROM to the top of the boot order, rebooted and computer
simply booted from the HD without asking me if I wanted to boot from
the CDROM(I had the installation CD in there). I tried this several
times, same result. I also tried increasing the time for POST tests
same result. Did HP modify their notebooks so it won't boot from
certain (burned) discs, or from non-HP recovery discs? Does anyone know
how I
can force this notebook to boot directly from a winXP installation CD?

You are certain that the installation CD is a boot disc? Can you get it
to boot in a different PC?

Also would the SATA hard drive cause any problems in regards to the
winXP reinstallation?

If you're attempting to install the system to a SATA drive, you might
need to pony up the drivers before it can see it. Early on, the
installer will ask you to press a key if you have to give it extra
drivers. You would think, though, that if those discs are recovery
discs for that particular system, that those drivers will have been
slipstreamed into the installer. (Speculating here, as I've not
actually had to ever do that.)

How certain are you that the recovery CDs are specific to that system,
and not just a generic installer?

 

[Rod Speed]

My friend has an HP pavilion dv1000 series notebook, which he bought
used without manuals or recovery CDs. The notebook has the following
features:

Processor
Intel Core Duo processor T2300 1.66GHz/667MHz
L2 Cache Size
2MB
Chip set:
Mobile Intel? 945 Express Chipset (Not Sure)
Hard drive
60GB 5400RPM SATA HDD
Memory
512MB DDR2 (533Mhz) 2DM (256MB*2)
Display panel
14 LCD Monitor WXGA 1280*768/BrightView Technology
Web Cam
HP Pavilion WebCam with integrated Microphone
Video graphic
Intel? Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Optical science drive
DVD/CD-RW COMBO Drive
P C card
ExpressCard/54k modem
Media card
6-in-1 digital media leader slot internal organs (xD, SD, MMC
and
Memory stick and Memory stick pro and Smart Media)
Audio
Integrated AC'97 Audio Codec
Network
High-speed 56K modems and 10/100 LAN internal organs, 802.11,
b/g
and BlueTooth
Operation setup
Windows XP Home Edition sp2
I/O pots
VGA
USB 2.0 (3 pots) A
IEEE 1394A
RJ-11A
RJ45 (LAN) A
Headphone A
With microphone phone A
S-video outA
xb2000

He wanted to reformat the harddrive and reinstall a clean version of
WinXP pro. He attempted to reinstall winXP Pro from a burned winXP OS
installation CD but ran into some problems during the installation,
right at the point when winXP attempts to start the installation
program (you know the blue screen with the status indicator on the
bottom telling you "WinXP is searching for drivers etc.") it
immediately goes to a dark blue screen with an error message of the
form 0xF899663C, etc, etc.

Try running memtest86+ on it overnight.

The way the guy got WinXP to install was to
install win98 from the OEM WinXP installation,
then install WinXP through the Win98 installation.

So I attempted to reinstall winXP, booting directly from the
installation CD. I went into bios and configured it to boot from the
CDROM, I put CDROM to the top of the boot order, rebooted and
computer simply booted from the HD without asking me if I wanted
to boot from the CDROM(I had the installation CD in there). I tried
this several times, same result.

See if it will boot a memtest86+ CD.

I also tried increasing the time for POST tests same result.

Yeah, it wont be that.

Did HP modify their notebooks so it won't boot from certain (burned) discs,

Nope. Because there are plenty of those that you do need to boot from.

or from non-HP recovery discs?
Nope.

Does anyone know how I can force this notebook
to boot directly from a winXP installation CD?

Work out why you arent able to boot a CD.

Also would the SATA hard drive cause any
problems in regards to the winXP reinstallation?

It can do, but that wont be the problem with being able to boot the XP CD.

You load the sata drive very early in the boot of the XP
CD, but that can be tricky if you dont have a floppy.

Best to slipstream that onto the XP CD, but there isnt any
point in doing that until you can actually boot an XP CD.

 

[deloprator20000]

I'm pretty sure the winXP CD is bootable, I didn't test it. No the
laptop does not have a floppy drive, so it might be an issue when
installing the SATA drivers how may overcome this? Just in case the CD
is bootable and the CDrom is damaged in some way is there another way
to boot from the winXP CD?

Thank You

 

[Rod Speed]

I'm pretty sure the winXP CD is bootable, I didn't test it.

The quick test for whether it can boot any CD is to try a memtest86+ CD too.

No the laptop does not have a floppy drive, so it might be an
issue when installing the SATA drivers how may overcome this?

You slipstream the driver onto the XP CD, producing a new bootable XP CD.

Just in case the CD is bootable and the CDrom is damaged in
some way is there another way to boot from the winXP CD?

Nope, if the cdrom drive wont boot a normal bootable
CD you need to replace the cdrom drive.