Setup gets WORKER_THREAD_RETURNED_AT_BAD_IRQL

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Jeff Hill

I'm reinstalling XP Home to eliminate a sporadic reboot
problem (except for that, XP had installed cleanly and
ran fine). I believe the reboots may have been caused by
an older PCI parallel card for which current drivers were
unavailable. I disabled this port after the initial
install, and removed it prior to reinstalling XP.

The initial reinstall was a repair. It experienced a
variety of STOPS, getting a bit further each time and
eventially completed, or at least it had last reported it
was deleting temporary files at the point where it
rebooted - w/o dislaying any confirmation or countdown
dialog. The reboot, however, hangs just at the point
where the XP Home logo would normallly fade in.

I'm now trying to do a clean install, and am doing a full
reformat of the NTFS boot partition. About 20% of the way
thru the format I got another STOP
with "WORKER_THREAD_RETURNED_AT_BAD_IRQL".

The system is an aging ASUS P5A with a K6 and 128M and a
new 30G Maxtor and a Rage 128 AGP card. The primary
partion is about 6.5G (NTFS), there are three 7.5G
logical drives in the extd partition (one FAT, two NTFS).
The Award BIOS has been updated to the latest supported
version.

I've already turned off video rom shadowing. Can anyone
suggest what else to disable in the BIOS?
Should "Plug'n'Play OS" be set to Yes or No?

Thanks!
Jeff
 
Thanks, Q. I'll try disabling the AGP stuff first, and if
that doesn't work I have a crappy old PCI VGA I can try.
....Jeff
 
Just a thought: I had a reinstalling situation that just
got to the end and said something about the Hardware
Compatability text file is empty therefore we're starting
again. 3 times!!!!! #4 effort was to drop out of the setup
and reformat; then back to the start. It ended the same
way!!! #5 I dropped out, formatted, partitioned (I didn't
know you could do that!), reformatted, started setup
again. When it asked where did I want to put the OS, I
replied c: AND FORMAT it. It worked beautifully!! No idea
why though...
 
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