Hi,
Looking for help with a further twist. I am installing XP Pro onto a Acer Aspire Revo with no cd rom and so am trying to do it from a usb. Got the instructions and tried the install to be met with the pci.sys error which thanks to this site I overcame ....... or so i thought. Ssing that i needed SP2 to deal with the pci issue I thought i'd go one better and slipstream SP3 onto my creation. Everything went swimmingly, no further pci issue and windows went all the way through the install, counted down the mins and then when it tried to reboot i got an error msg - not on the BSOD - regarding a hal.dll file being missing or corrupt. Any ideas? I went back to my original XP disc and ran a search on that but it didn't show up the missing file either. So i don't know where to see about hal.
All help greatly appreciated.

Hi there,

I was having major problems as well. I originally had a quick power outage then my computer would cycle boot non-stop as another member had posted in this thread. I figured I would just reformat the drive upon a reinstallation of Windows XP. My SP1 disk gave me the pci.sys blue screen of death when I tired to install. Found this thread, slipstreamed SP2 onto a disk and tried to install, the pci.sys error went away, but I got another x07Exxxxxxxx error instead when the setup tried to boot up. I tried fiddling with all my hardware, etc and I was getting annoyed. I figured I might as well try SP3, downloaded it, slipstreamed and it, low and behold I'm in the middle of my XP install. If anyone is looking for the SP3 file from Microsoft you can find it by doing a quick search in google. I don't have enough rep on this forum to post a link.
Good luck!

I haven't read all the posts in this thread, but haven't you tried using an external CD/DVD drive? You can by a usb/sata adapter from newegg for about $20 and just pull the CD/DVD drive from your (or anyone's) computer.

Hi All,

I updated my BIOS DG31PR Intel Board last week. Also I fitted a SMPS fan in the cabinet from the CPU fan output. Also fitted an additional USB connector from the USB pins on the mother board.

This week when I tried to format my c:\ drive using XP professional bootable disk it gave me the pci.sys 0x0000007e error. Base address and datestamp stuff.

I cannot run the XP setup. Worst part is that I tried to load win98 and that my other disc partions are stating non Xp discs and all my data is gone.......

Any help frpm anybody will be welcome...regarding this...
Also please state if the data on my HDD partions can be recovered.


Thanks in Advance
Aditya

will this work with XP sp3 ?? am having dificulty finding a new XP sp2 disc.

OK i can tell you a few things.

One. Those of you that go the "install the hdd in another computer, install windows, then put the hdd back in the original case...."

That won't work because of HAL

you broke it.

once you change HW (i.e. the Motherboard) the OS does not now how to talk to the hardware, because each motherboard has it's own Hardware Abstraction Layer. Without the correct one, your operating system may become corrupted, or might not even boot.


Two. slipstreaming or finding an xpsp2 or later disk seems to be the ONLY fix for this. as PCI.SYS on the original xp gold and xp sp1a disks are not compatible with the PCI-E routines and this causes the BSOD.



Unless someone can figure out if a pci.sys from an SP2 disk can be packed on an XP Gold or SP1a install disk, the above is the ONLY fix.

Now if someone can only test if that last one will work (maybe it will?)

as loong as you haven't written any data to the HDD, you should be able to recover it from the disk.

Now if you managed to re-partition and then Install windows (writing data to the disk, the partitioning does nothing to the actual data on the disk, it just clears the MFT and such) then you're going to have some trouble getting that data back.

you're not going to find hal.dll on the install media because the install media contains packed files.

Which instructions on installing xp from usb are you using? I would have went with tftpd32 and PXE install, but meh...

you could also ghostcast.
or just say screwit and throw win7 on it.

I know this is 6 years late, but... Windows XP prior to SP2 doesn't recognize SATA drives. You must disable Native SATA in the BIOS and then you can install Windows XP.

I have followed all of the directions to create the XP SP2 CD. They work fine. I use the newly created CD and it gets me past the error but the original authentication ID no longer works... how do I get past this issue?

In Bios disable Acha Drive and make your Main drive compatible then under disable main HD and make a slipstream usb installer of windows XP and then boot it will show your main HD . Reformat it and then install to that new main HD partition from Flash Stick and walla ya now have fixed the Eee PC witout the external Dvd drive.

Before reading this thread It took me hours trying to solve this same problem. The only thing that worked is: pressing F5 whiling system messages "veryfing system hardware". Then choose standard hardware options.

The windows xp installation program boots normally and so everything else.

Won't load. Gives the error discussed here. Not sure how to follow the slip streaming process. What other OS can I use right out of the box ? Windows 7 ?

our pci-e vga spoil so we bougt a new one.
When we try to install windows 7 on our hp pav. T3000 it load a while stop and give a blue screen
A problem has been detected and
windows has been shut down to
prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you’ ve seen this stop error screen, restart your
computer. If this screen appears again,
follow these steps:
Check to be sure you have adequate
disk space. If a driver is identified in
the stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacturer for driver
updates. Try changing video adapters.
Check with your hardware vendor for
any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS
memory options such as caching or
shadowing. If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable
components, restart your computer,
press F8 to select advanced startup
options, and then select safe mode.
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xc0000005, 0xF783e0BF, 0xF7c4e208,
0xf7c4df08)
*** pci.sys - address f783e0bf base at
f7837000, datestamp 3b7d855c
And when we use windows xp sp2 it restart it self.

is the nomal xp sp2 the same as the xp slipstream sp2?

Thanks a ton for this post. I streamlined SP2 into my Windows XP Pro and this worked like a charm. Kudos to all the help in this thread!

quote from "RealBlackStuff" [
Create a new CD with XP/SP2 slipstreamed into it:
(URL)
] end quote.
(i cant re-post the url from page one of this thread because i'm new here)

this is the only thing that worked for me. thanks very much.

IMPORTANT: anybody running windows 2000 will need to delete one file from the unpacked service pack before slipstreaming it into the windows install folder, otherwise the slipstreaming process will crash when executing the "i386/update/update.exe" program from the service pack (the program that does the actual slipstreaming). i found this out on the forum listed in the download of the auto-stream utility mentioned by user "mickzer", which i tried using because the other method was crashing. the auto-stream utility will not work for you on windows 2000 either. you have to do it manually, and delete the rogue file.

the file to delete from the unpacked service pack 2 is "i386/update/setupapi.dll".

hope this helps. i've been round the houses like everyone else with this.
:O

thx ....
Windows XP SP2 work... !
Windows XP SP3 fail with PCI.SYS...