Docking station problems with XP Pro

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Thanks in advance to all those that can help me. I'm running a HP nc6220 laptop with the latest upgrade of XP Pro on one hard drive, and Linux Ubuntu on another. Both OS's work fine when used in the laptop. I have the docking station that comes with this laptop. When I use this docking station with the Ubuntu OS in the laptop, everything works fine. When I use the docking station with the XP Pro OS in the laptop, the OS goes into a boot up loop and will not go any further. This tells me it's a Windows software problem since the docking station works as it should under Linux. Is there some kind of setting I need to change in Windows to stop the boot up loop when I'm connected to the docking station? I would appreciate any help in solving this (probably simple) problem.

[allen2]

What are you calling boot up loop ?

Do you see the the Windows XP screen ?

If it seem to boot XP normaly and then reboot, it is probably crashing. If it is the case, you should disable the automatic reboot after a crash and configure XP to make a full dump when crashing.

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Yes, I get the XP logo and then it crashes and reboots by itself. How do I "disable the automatic reboot after a crash and configure XP to make a full dump when crashing"? What is a "full dump"? Will this give me some error code? I consider myself a noob, when it comes to working under the hood with Windows, so I may need some simple terminology to work through this. Thanks.

[allen2]

Here is the sticky thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/130003-creating-memory-dumps/

You'll need to do the "Memory dump of the entire system:" part. The step 1 isn't needed for you as XP will crash by itself if docked. And when you 'll be at step 3 also uncheck automatic restart.

This way you'll see when XP crash and you'll be able to write down the Stop error code as sometimes it is the only needed thing.