I have an MSI P965 NeoF-V2 board.
I get the same error: pci.sys ... stop ... BSOD and Windows XP won't install

The problem I believe is old XP in combination with those new P965 boards.
I've seen similar problems on Asus.


Here's two solutions that worked for me:

Solution 1:

- Disable SATA at the BIOS
- Install Windows XP with SP2
- Since SATA is disabled, install XP on an IDE drive

Solution 2:

- Install Vista

i tried everything with the slipstream sp2 and all that but i get an error saying that it cant boot from the cd its like CDBOOT: Code 5 cannot boot from cd. the only thing that i can think of is because it was a DVD and not a cd ( outta cd;s right now) would that have an impact on that? can i burn it onto a cdR/w? because that would help me out a lot

I got this same message on a HP D4650Y. It started to happen after an unexpected power outage. When I restarted, It happened a few times and then worked. The next time I restarted, I got the message again and now it will not go away. The same thing happens when I boot from my Windows XP Pro install CD. I suspect some sort of hardware problem, but the error message doesn't give me much to go on... I am getting a pile of replacement parts tonite and will start swapping till I drop. I already tried removing all the "nonessential" cards, so now I am down to Mobo, CPU, RAM, Video Card.....

Any suggestions welcomed...

Hi folks, I've been reading this post because I had the same problem. I had a Windows XP CD with neither SP1 or SP2. What worked for me is as follows: 1. Loaded Failsafe settings in BIOS. 2. Disabled the ACPI function. 3. Disabled the "Resume by PCI Device" in the wake up event in power settings. After doing these things (and after seemingly endless hours of experimentation), THIS worked and I was able to install Windows XP without the service packs. Once Windows was loaded, I could then load the SP2 and then reset all the BIOS settings to whatever I wanted to. Hope this helps some of you avoid the hours of nail-biting I had to endure. Let me know how it goes. TJM

Hi .
You are missing the SATA driver. Windows, prior to SP2 does not contain the necessary SATA drivers, so you have to add it during the installation.
You need to press F6 at the begining of installation to load the SATA Driver for your mobo.
Follow the instructions and press "S".
WinXP installation will tell you to load the diskette, prepaired in advance.
The diskette has to contain the needed driver (the one for your mobo) prepaired with "Make Disk". Il will contain the file "txtsetup.oem".
It this file is absent, the driver will not install.
Find out with Google the "Driver so and so with make disk".
You will reach the proper site, download the driver and do the make disk.
If your PC is inoperative, you will need to do it on another PC.
Regards

I hope this is not a duplicate. I seem to have fat fingered my last attempt at a reply...

Your post cleared up many questions I had about this error. I now understand that the XP Pro install disk (Ver 0) could not format my new SATA drive because it did not have the proper driver. Then, since that was the only drive in the system, it would be unable to install so it gave up. with the blue screen...

It als explains why the idea suggested in other posts about using a XP Pro install disk that has been "slipstreamed" to SP2 would work as well.

I have no idea how to slipstream, but I did get my hands on an "official" XP Pro SP2 install disk. My plan is now to try that today sometime. Given this post, I am very hopeful.

Thankjs again!

Bedrock,
Try Autostreamer:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1092632287/1

mickzer.

That should do it!

Thanks much!

Jim

It works for me!!! =D

I just got an account to write here. After several times of using the forums I can only say that you guys make a great work.

Thanks

Mainboard was MSI G31M (MS-7379), was getting the PCI.sys BSOD at install of XP Pro and the Slipstream Disc approach worked spectacularly.

Thank you heaps

I also got this error, went back through the eldergeek guide and realised that i did not correctly set the "Number of Loaded Sectors" to 4 when compiling the bootable disc.

its been a while since anyone has posted

but just in case anyone is floating around out here

i got a brand new pc with pci-E, im useing nothing but onboard plugins and brand new ram. i tried to put a HD with preinstalled XP pro in it,
only to get the crashed screen, where it asks how you want to start,
like safe mode and last known good config and such...
when i try to load windows i got the blue screen and pci.sys error.

so i tried to boot from cd and try to get on the XP pro disc to reformat
or whatnot... it says loading files for a while then Blue Screened me again.

So i read about this SlipStreaming stuff and the hype about SP2.
Trying to be slick, i went and downloaded SP2 onto the HD and tried booting .. No MOre blue screen!... BUT instead when windows goes to load
my pc just resets itself... and does this over and over....

Even tho SP2 is allready on it would i Absolutely need the bootable
SlipStreamed disc??

Also, my cd drive dont have a burner so i cant make a SlipStreamed disc,
is there anything i can download and put on the HD to help it?

SHould i try putting Xp Pro on the Fat32 instead of NTFS?

And finally, is it possible to use the new pc disc and install the mobo
onto the HD from a nother computer? And would it even help?

This is an ide HD!

Any info is appreciated.. this is a real brain racker!

PS theres no beeps or anything it seems like its wants to run fine
ive tried to disable pci E but theres no disable option

Thanks!

Scr3wFac3,

I would suggest that firstly you spend the 30$ to get a DVD burner. Make a slipstream disc, and then hook your whole system up and do a fresh install of XP Pro from the slipstreamed disc.

The problem with pre-loading XP onto your HDD is that it will load all of the devices and drivers for the system you installed XP via, and then it will a hack-job to configure it correctly for your hardware when you bring the HDD over to your own machine.

NTFS should be fine, but it does sound like there is a second problem with the un-prompted re-boot.

Try burning the disc and fresh install, if that doesnt work, im kinda lost...

A bootable disc with sp2 worked. I used a windows recovery cd and had no problems.
You cannot pre-install SP2 onto the hard drive then put it in, it wont work, has to boot!

Once your loaded immediatly install your drivers to your system!
I Failed to do so and my system crashed, and display drivers crashed and locked me in Low Res 4bit color!
I could not fix this, my cd drive would not read cd's and i could not download. And this somehow corrupted the HD hence i couldnt reinstall. I had to boot from recovery cd again on a diff HD.. loaded windows, Slapped the drivers on fast as i could... and been running smooth for a while. GL HF!

Well I have the same error.
ASUS M2V-MS SE board
1 gig of ram
320 SATA Western D. drive


And from past experance I can tell you that it is the harddrive.
I installed XP Pro on a smaller drive 60 gig maxtor drive,it installed with no errors..


So,Western drives suck....

XP with SP2 is the solver of this problem almost all of the time! The PCI-e needs the support on the SP2 embedded disk.
Just ran into that problem last week and remembered the SP2 support.

Basically another extremely satisfied reader with the information here. I am confirming the (extremely well put together!) slipstreaming method described here works perfectly for this particular problem.

winsupersite [dot] com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

For staying at the top of google ^_^ :
PCI.SYS Blue Screen of Death BSOD windows install setup problem trouble lock up lockup fix solution

I just finished reading through all of these posts, and feel that my situation may be a combination of faults. Here's a little background:

- Dell Latitude D620
- I believe it's 512mB of RAM
- 80gB HDD
- DVD Write/Read drive
- Core Duo processor

When I bought it used, and tried getting onto it, it prompted me for an Administrator password. I thought of a few things, but no luck. I inserted ERD Commander, and tried to reconfigure the Admin passowrd, when I got the same Error Message as listed in this thread. Thinking it was a bad driver or sector, or even something deeper, and since I couldn't get it to boot into safe mode, I ran a Disk reformatter, which worked great. Now, when I try to install XP Sp2, I get the same message...

Here's where I'm at..

Since it initially POSTed and got to the XP Log-in screen (originally), I tend to not believe it's a video, memory or even a HDD error, however..

The computer was transported, and it is possible that maybe the Memory is only partially working, HDD start up is not flawed, but something in the registry was corrupt, OR.... The DVD drive is bad, however, the disc reformatter worked fine (used a CD though)..

I will try the slipstream on the existing discs I have, but anyone have any other ideas of what might cause this?? I believe it has an onboard X300, but I can't confirm it this second, since I'm about 100 miles away from home, with no laptop..

TIA



JT

OK people...I'm really confused. When trying to install XP SP1 on brand new hard drive (160GB), it appears windows is loading and then like most of these other posts, the install stops at the BSOD with the exact same pci.sys error. This is the only computer I have. My other hard drive failed and so I'm starting fresh. How in the hell am I supposed to copy the files to the hard drive when I can't even get to the desktop? The install fails every single time. Having SP2 would be the solution (I have a PCI express slot on my new MOBO) but I should be able to use my original XP CD. Or does this mean I have to fork out another $100 for SP2 just so I can load windows? That's ridiculous seeing how my CD is like new, no scratches and it's paid for. Would I need to create this CD on another machine with a burner? I can do that here at work I guess. Can anyone be more specific on how to create the streamlined CD when I'm unable to load the O/S? I'm stuck... :-(

Folks, just use another WIN XP media...it works!!!

haVE A NICE DAY.