RESOURCE CONFLICT

[Guest]

I am trying to refurbish my DELL Dimension 850T and have run into a problem.
I replaced a failed HD with a formatted used HD known to be OK (no OS). I was
trying to boot up to load Win XP from a CD but I get the following error:
Resource Conflict - PCI
BUS: 00, Function: 00
" " " 01
" " " 02
It also indicated that a file "NTLDR" is missing

I have no idea how to rectify this problem as the system sems to stall at
the same place each time. I can't even get to DOS. Can anyone help me out of
this fix???
Thanks..............

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I am trying to refurbish my DELL Dimension 850T and have run into a
problem.
I replaced a failed HD with a formatted used HD known to be OK (no OS). I
was
trying to boot up to load Win XP from a CD but I get the following error:
Resource Conflict - PCI
BUS: 00, Function: 00
" " " 01
" " " 02
It also indicated that a file "NTLDR" is missing

I have no idea how to rectify this problem as the system sems to stall at
the same place each time. I can't even get to DOS. Can anyone help me out
of
this fix???
Thanks..............

When, exactly, do you get this error? During setup? After? Does it boot
from CD or does this error appear during CD boot?

Are you sure that that system is hardware-compatible with XP?

Are you sure that the jumpers are set correctly on the drives, and that they
are properly recognised in the BIOS? Dell often uses Cable Select jumper
settings, which means the primary drive is at the end of the cable.

Physically remove all add-on cards that aren't absolutely necessary and
clear the BIOS. There's normally a battery and a reset jumper on the
motherboard. Unplug the power cord, remove the battery, move the jumper
to the CLEAR position. Count to ten, put the jumper back and re-install
the battery. Plug the system back in, and go into BIOS setup and
re-detect everything. Set the boot sequence to boot from CD first, then
from hard disk.

As a test, you can just copy NTLDR to the root from any other working XP
system and see what the next error msg is. If the drive is formatted NTFS,
you won't be able to use a DOS or WIn9x boot floppy for this, unless you
have 3rd party NTFS-DOS drivers. You can use your XP Boot CD, get to the
recovery console, and copy the files via floppy.

However, if the install wasn't successful, and it sounds like it wasn't,
you might not be able to do this. The best plan is likely to just start
over, particularly since there's no data on the drive yet and you already
know things didn't go smoothly. Re-format the drive from the XP CD. Note
that if the drive is over 40 gig or so, you won't be offered FAT, only NTFS.

Unless you formatted the system as FAT and created a partition for DOS, you
won't be able to get to DOS. XP doesn't come with it. There is a
text-mode command interpreter that many people mistake for DOS, but it is XP
without the pictures.

HTH
-pk

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I am trying to refurbish my DELL Dimension 850T and have run into a
problem. I replaced a failed HD with a formatted used HD known to be
OK (no OS). I was trying to boot up to load Win XP from a CD but I
get the following error: Resource Conflict - PCI
BUS: 00, Function: 00
" " " 01
" " " 02
It also indicated that a file "NTLDR" is missing

I have no idea how to rectify this problem as the system sems to
stall at the same place each time. I can't even get to DOS. Can
anyone help me out of this fix???

Just a guess, but was the old setup the failed HD as the primary and the CD
the seocndaet on the sameIDE channel?

If so, you may have replaced a drive jumpered as master with one jumpered as
slave. Change the jumper setting on the drive.

 

[Guest]

First, thanks for the responses. Here is where I stand now......

I changed the HD connection (it was on the same IDE channel) and inserted
the missing NTLDR file on a 3.5 floppy. When I attempted to boot this time
with the XP disk in the CD drive, the DELL LOGO display came up, but after a
few seconds the message "Cannot load DOS press key to retry" appeared. Of
course, pressing the space bar resulted in the repeat of this sequence. Now
the HD has been formated as NTFS, but where do I find the DOS drivers and
what can I do now?

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You should set up your PC as:

Hard drive -- Master on primary IDE connection / cable
CD drive (for installation) -- Master on secondary IDE connection / cable.

I have encountered PCs where the XP install CD would not boot, or run
correctly, if the CD/DVD drive set as "slave".

 

[Guest]

To all my helpers!
By switching the HD connection on my primary IDE channel and isolating the
CD/RW drive from it, It is now in the process of installing Win XP Pro as I
write. I should add that the old PC will be a satellite to my DELL 9150.

Many thanks to you experts for your help and support. Each time I seek user
group assistance I learn something more about the machinations of, and the
hardware technology of computers. One of these days I might even learn enough
to be of assistance to someone else in cyberspace. Let's hope so....Regards