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Greg Palmer
I am tearing out what little of my hair I have left trying to reinstall
Windows XP on my computer here. It's pretty much a standard (512mb ram,
160gb c drive, dvdrw, cdrom, etc, etc) out of the box HP Pavillion
a430n, with the exception of a second had drive added.
A couple months back, I managed to totally hose Windows after
installing Linux. When I went back to reinstall Windows (from a retail
cd) I boot from cd, and it gets just past the "checking your computer's
hardware" part, then goes to a blue screen saying an stop error was
encountered, and points to usbport.sys. Sometimes it'll get a little
further, but then give me the same error. This happens on both the
original retail cd I have, and the one I've slipstreamed SP2 into.
Eventually (probably 30-40 tries later) I was able to get it to go
through the entire installation process without crashing.
I've gotten to the point again now where I need to do another clean
windows install on here. I tried the retail cds again with no luck.
(Same problem as before). I finally found my HP restore cds. Popped
those in and restored the hard drive to factory condition, then did a
restore of Windows from that. It seemed to work -- copied all the
windows files over. Then it reboots and goes to the part where it
configures the windows installation -- and promptly fails.
It seems like Windows is not liking something on this PC. Any
suggestions out there? Someone at a local computer shop suggested it
could be a bad RAM chip. He'd be happy to diagnose it for $100, but I'd
like to see if I can't get some suggestions before I shell that out or
replace said RAM.
Windows XP on my computer here. It's pretty much a standard (512mb ram,
160gb c drive, dvdrw, cdrom, etc, etc) out of the box HP Pavillion
a430n, with the exception of a second had drive added.
A couple months back, I managed to totally hose Windows after
installing Linux. When I went back to reinstall Windows (from a retail
cd) I boot from cd, and it gets just past the "checking your computer's
hardware" part, then goes to a blue screen saying an stop error was
encountered, and points to usbport.sys. Sometimes it'll get a little
further, but then give me the same error. This happens on both the
original retail cd I have, and the one I've slipstreamed SP2 into.
Eventually (probably 30-40 tries later) I was able to get it to go
through the entire installation process without crashing.
I've gotten to the point again now where I need to do another clean
windows install on here. I tried the retail cds again with no luck.
(Same problem as before). I finally found my HP restore cds. Popped
those in and restored the hard drive to factory condition, then did a
restore of Windows from that. It seemed to work -- copied all the
windows files over. Then it reboots and goes to the part where it
configures the windows installation -- and promptly fails.
It seems like Windows is not liking something on this PC. Any
suggestions out there? Someone at a local computer shop suggested it
could be a bad RAM chip. He'd be happy to diagnose it for $100, but I'd
like to see if I can't get some suggestions before I shell that out or
replace said RAM.