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HARK! To John and community, I had a a few minutes the other day to try copying the install, IE7 and SP3 to my local machine and run the nLite integration function for SP3 and IE7 on the XP install and then test it and much to my surprise it worked! The setup did not fail with message "acpi.sys could not be found" message. Needless to say I was ecstatic! I'm almost hesitant to write this because I don't want to jinx my luck. However, I still remained stumped by failure that apparently was the result of performing the nLite function over a network. I surely can't believe that I'm the only one who has attempted this function completely over a networked drive. I should think the lower layers of the OSI model would have handled any data corruption. Anyone else successfully perform nLite over a networked drive?

You know I just realized I am doing this all over a network, could that have anything to do with it?

OK, sorry for the delay, I had some trouble with a Sil3512 card and my FreeNAS box. My MD5s and size info for SP3 and IE7 are as follows: WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe MD5=BB25707C919DD835A9D9706B5725AF58 size=331,805,736 bytes IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe MD5=EA16789F6FC1D2523F704E8F9AFBE906 size=15,452,536 bytes Does this look correct? Here is a screen capture of my XP Install copied file structure. I realized I had been using an install that included SP1 so I dug around and found an older disc that did not contain an SP at all. Unfortunately, after using this older XP install the integrating only SP3 and IE7 and testing the newly created install, I still get the same error of "acpi.sys not found" very early in the textmode setup. Logically the error occurs right as the setup begins to access acpi.sys or acpi related files. I can tell this because sometimes I can see the text flash in gray bar at the bottom of the screen for a moment before the message is displayed the install halts. I am baffled by this because I believe I must be the only person having this issue. Thanks again for you timely support! Ben

Sorry john, I forgot to mention that I did do a search and compare of the acpi.sys files both before and after the IE7 integration and they show up in the same four places "\i386, \DRIVERS, \SP1 and \SP3" (in the DRIVERS, SP1 and SP3 they are in .cab files). I'll check the sizes. Yes, I can install XP just fine as it stands in it's slipstreamed SP3 form. I can also take that same \i386 folder and run it through nLite and tweak and modify any way I want and it will work fine, as long as I don't integrate IE7. weird. I'll continue working on this tonight. Thanks again!

Well, I took my original copy of XP w/SP1 and used nLite to slipstream SP3 and integrate IE7. This is all I did, nothing more, and I still get the "acpi.sys not found" error during textmode install of XP (32bit). I'm getting stumped here... running out of ideas. My IE7 .exe is a day old and my SP3 .exe is probably 1 year old. I'll keep bangin my head against this.

You are correct, sir. The board does have integrated SATA into the VIA southbridge, I believe, as well as the regular 2 channel IDE. I have broken open the SATA drivers and I can successfully integrate the textmode drivers without a problem. In fact I can run the entire nLite configuration exactly the way I want without a problem except for the inclusion of IE7 under the hotfixes section. If I include IE7 in the hotfixes section I get the "acpi.sys not found" message during the textmode setup of XP. Thanks for looking into such detail.

John, thank you for the quick response. Here is my .ini file. I will keep working on this. My lack of finding anyone else with this same problem leads me to believe that is my own unique situation. I do believe that I am starting with a fresh copy of XP each time, but I will double check this as well. Thanks again, Ben LAST_SESSION.INI

Hello community, I have recently become an nLite junkie I'm having a problem where I get this message: "acpi.sys not found" during the textmode install portion of XP 32bit. I've ruled out all other possibilities such as integrated drivers, removed components, tweaks, etc. This seems to only happen when I integrate IE7. Is this a known issue? I've searched the internet for hours but I can't find another example of this same failure. System is a P4 - Biostar P4VMA, integrated video, bare bones system.