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Clean XP install aspire 9300
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Posted by: sdsherer
MemberSo, I'm replying to my own post. Here's what happens to this notebook.
I've done a clean install of XP Pro SP4. Install seems to go fine. When final Windows/XP splash screen appears during boot, there is just a little disk activity at the beginning (not nearly enough), then nothing, the rolling activity indicator on the splash screen just stops and then the screen goes black or optionally a repeated pattern of a section of what was on the screen.
On this machine, I have installed W2K successfully in another partition. It runs fine, so I don't have worries about hardware. Network, video, etc., all fine.
It boots into XP safe mode fine, but won't boot into safe mode with networking. Same result as attempting normal boot.
Examining bootlog of hung boot show just 5 or so lines - all say that afd.sys did not load. That's all.
This failure happens regardless of whether or not I've installed all the drivers from the Acer site. Today I installed the updated CPU drivers from AMD to no avail. The BIOS on this machine basically doesn't let you disable anything.
I've pretty much exhausted my knowledge base on what to do next. I have a feeling the problem is at a pretty low level, but since W2K runs fine it's hard to imagine there is a hardware problem. BIOS perhaps.....
What is it about this Acer that prevents XP Pro from running? Any thoughts would be welcomed. Thanks.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Posted by: sdsherer
MemberJust to close this out........
Even though XP installed fine, as did W2K, from CD, and W2K ran fine, it turns out that the CD/DVD drive is the problem. Take out the drive and XP boots right up. This was a replacement drive from the 1st one that puked, but was same part number. Could it be that there needs to be a "special" driver for this? Bootlog quit after loading CDFS.sys. Go figure.........
Posted 2 years ago #
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