XP Install fails at SP1 or 2

[Stuart Irving]

Hi,

After my PCs PSU went phut, I was left with an unbootable system, so I
decided to buy a nice shiny 500W PSU and clean install Windows XP; it did
not go well!

Hardware is a 3.0GHz Pentuim D / ASUS P5WD2 Premium / 2 GB Corsair RAM. 3x
IDE drives / ATI Display

Some of the onboard devices are not supported without SP1. I installed XP at
SP0 and it proceeded with no problem, but as soon as I try to install SP1,
or SP2 after the reboot it moans about <windows>/System32/hall.dll being
missing or corrupt. The machine boots through the BIOS and the text screens,
the problem happens when the graphical loading screen appears. Safe Mode
will not work either. There is no BSOD, the machine just powers down and
rebootes. Using the recovery console to replace hal.dll doesn't seem to
help. I wonder if the disk partition's permissions have been pooched, or
maybe the info in the boot.ini is somehow being invalidated during boot!

This happens in the same way if I do SP0 - SP1 or SP0 - SP2. I suspect it
may be an issue with one or other of the IDE controllers that was not
properly supported before the updates. Originally I installed a the HDD with
XP already installed and it booted into Windows XP SP2 immediately - now I'm
stuck; any ideas?

Cheers
Stuart

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

Hi,

After my PCs PSU went phut, I was left with an unbootable system, so I
decided to buy a nice shiny 500W PSU and clean install Windows XP; it did
not go well!

Hardware is a 3.0GHz Pentuim D / ASUS P5WD2 Premium / 2 GB Corsair RAM. 3x
IDE drives / ATI Display

Some of the onboard devices are not supported without SP1. I installed XP at
SP0 and it proceeded with no problem, but as soon as I try to install SP1,
or SP2 after the reboot it moans about <windows>/System32/hall.dll being
missing or corrupt. The machine boots through the BIOS and the text screens,
the problem happens when the graphical loading screen appears. Safe Mode
will not work either. There is no BSOD, the machine just powers down and
rebootes. Using the recovery console to replace hal.dll doesn't seem to
help. I wonder if the disk partition's permissions have been pooched, or
maybe the info in the boot.ini is somehow being invalidated during boot!

This happens in the same way if I do SP0 - SP1 or SP0 - SP2. I suspect it
may be an issue with one or other of the IDE controllers that was not
properly supported before the updates. Originally I installed a the HDD with
XP already installed and it booted into Windows XP SP2 immediately - now I'm
stuck; any ideas?

Cheers
Stuart

You could try slipstreaming your original XP with SP2 to a new CD, look
at:-

Slipstreamed Windows XP CD Using SP2
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm

How to use AutoStreamer to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.html

Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Direct Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

 

[Stuart Irving]

Thanks for that! I will make a slipstreamed install cd, but I fixed it by
installing Win2K3 Server, its CHKDSK picked up a bunch of errors that the
WinXP CHKDSK missed. I could then copy off what I needed and format it.

The system partition was fubar!