Vista to XP pci.sys problem

[Guest]

Hello,
My family recently sent our XP computer out for a new motherboard under
warranty but London Drugs couldn't fix it. They gave us a new computer which
is nice but my parents don't want Vista which is all they could give us.
So...

I have the old XP disk and tried to boot from that so I could format and
install. I kept getting a blue screen before getting to the Format or
Recovery options, and it said I needed to disable something called the
pci.sys driver? Below it said STOP: pci.sys 0x0000007E...... So I just used
a program called DBAN to format. But now I'm trying to boot off the XP disk
again and getting the same error message.
Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Paul Randall]

Hello,
My family recently sent our XP computer out for a new motherboard under
warranty but London Drugs couldn't fix it. They gave us a new computer
which
is nice but my parents don't want Vista which is all they could give us.
So...

I have the old XP disk and tried to boot from that so I could format and
install. I kept getting a blue screen before getting to the Format or
Recovery options, and it said I needed to disable something called the
pci.sys driver? Below it said STOP: pci.sys 0x0000007E...... So I just
used
a program called DBAN to format. But now I'm trying to boot off the XP
disk
again and getting the same error message.
Any suggestions?

New branded (like HP, Sony, etc) computers with preloaded Vista are often
optimized for the latest OS, which just happens to be Vista right now.
Often the manufacturer doesn't want to spend the resources to create drivers
for ann old OS for the various stuff on the motherboard. So you may find it
difficult or impossible to make WXP work on this computer. If you didn't
get a Vista install with the computer, be sure to create a recovery DVD, so
you can get back to nearly out-of-the-box condition, before trying to
install WXP.

-Paul Randall

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

It means there is a hardware incompatibility and XP cannot be installed on
this system as it stands. The module involved, pci.sys, it a motherboard
driver, so offhand I'd say that XP has no compatible driver for this
motherboard.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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