XP SP2 Hangs on power off

[DavidCulliford]

I have run the iso a number of times now and always end up with the same problem. When I shut down the machine it ends up with a black screen with the white cursor. I can use the power button to shut it down but when it reboots it goes into the Widows screen and sits there. None of the keys are active at this point.. I have had trouble loading the ACPI driver and don't know if this is the cause of my other problems. I have had this problem at different times after the install, most recently, just after loading other drivers but initially later when trying to load other software from a USB DVD drive.

Any ideas how I can overcome this problem

Last Session.ini

[GrofLuigi]

To quote myself from a recent post, very rarely will nLite totally break something, even with many things removed. Most often the reasons are external - unclean source, double processed source, working under Vista/7, antivirus meddling...

For your situation: yes, ACPI can be directly related to shutdown problems. It might be the hardware (too old, broken, misconfigured in BIOS or somehow incompatible with XP). Otherwise, you don't really remove anything, so nLite shouldn't be the problem. Does the same thing happen if you install from your unmodified source?

* Edit: and I also see you're setting a custom resolution. Try without that. Also, try to avoid working with nLite under Windows 7.

GL

Edited January 3, 2012 by GrofLuigi

[Ponch]

What do you mean by "I have had trouble loading the ACPI driver" ? What kind of machine is it ? Why resolution 800x480 ?

+Is your D: on the same HDD (or at least internal)?

[DavidCulliford]

I loaded Windows XP Home edition, onto the Asus eee 901 PC SP3 using the restore disc. The eee has two solid state drives, C: with 4 GB and D: with 8. XP loaded and all drivers were properly loaded. After Windows is loaded, drive C: is about half full.

I load Programs in D; to preserve space on C: The program I most want to use is Microsoft Streets and Trips. Unfortunately, even though the Streets and Trips Program goes in D:, it still results in over 400 MB, an mdb, of data in the Windows Documents and Settings, Applications Data folder, on drive C: with Windows . This leaves the machine close to useless. It is for this reason I am trying to load nLite.

I used the Asus eee with the XP OS to generate a new iso. using a copy of Windows XP Home Edition SP2 which I bought separately since the restore disc is a ghost image. When I tried to load this onto the eee I got the blue screen of death. This happened after the drivers had been copied and as it started to set up Windows. It did not prevent the original version of XP from continuing to work.

Using XP as opposed to Windows 7 to generate the iso seems to have been less successful.

I set the processor type to "auto" and get a choice of "C-step i486" or "other". I choose the first.

The blue screen suggests running Checkdisc/F which I did but it made no difference.

The message was: Stop 0x0000007b(0xf79fe524, 0x0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Any more suggestions?

Dave

Last Session_u.ini

[Ponch]

1) edit your posts to remove your XP key from both attached _u files. You never know, someone could register it before you.

2) run nLite on your files a first time, only integrating ServicePack 3 from Microsoft and save the result as a starting point for next builds. DO use XP, not Win7 for that.

3) get the drivers, at least for the chipset, VGA and LAN from Asus's site for EeePC 901/WinXP, unzip them and integrate them in your build with nLite (I see there are tons of inf files, use "integrate multiple drivers"). Apparently you don't need any "text mode" driver.

4) to be able to use ProgFilesPath = "d:\Program Files" , your D drive must be existing and formatted before Windows setup starts.

5) I don't see where you "get a choice of "C-step i486" or "other"(???), but previous points might get you through to a successful install.

If you really need some space saved on your C:, you might consider checking components removal (printers, vga drivers, etc ...but better be safe than sorry).

If all this doesn't work, Windows might have a problem finding the install media (USB cdrom) after reboot so you might check our "Install Windows from USB" forum as well.

Edited January 5, 2012 by Ponch

[submix8c]

Errr... if you press F5 during Setup (when you see "Press F6 for additional drivers") the screen is scrollable and for some reason always goes to the "end of the list", showing what you see (2 options) - an "oddity" I have noticed before. If you "scroll" it UP you'll see the other types. If you are allowing it (as you say "auto") to choose automatically, don't use the F5 key at all.

[Ponch]

This happened after the drivers had been copied and as it started to set up Windows. It did not prevent the original version of XP from continuing to work.

I see this now and I am a bit confused on what exactly you have achieved or not. Have you managed to install XP at all the way you are doing now (with external USB cdrom) or not ? You seem to mean yes in the 1st post but no here. Are you keeping the original install on the same drive ?

[DavidCulliford]

My first attempt to install XP was with a file I generated on a computer running Windows 7. It did install and work to some extent. It would hang up on power down and sometimes I could get it working again.

I followed the advice I got to my response and generated the XP file from the computer running XP. It never installed. Both attempts were from the same USB drive.

[submix8c]

Curiosity begs the question - just how fast are you burning them? The faster the burn, the more error-prone.

Please be more specific as to the "errors" you are having - "It never installed" tells us zero!

[Ponch]

My first attempt to install XP was with a file I generated on a computer running Windows 7. It did install and work to some extent.

If same method and same files were used, there should be no difference in this case, so there is something else that you forget to say.

[DavidCulliford]

I have integrated XP Home Edition SP2 with SP3, then added the drivers I downloaded from ASUS. Next I precessed the selections for Components, Unattended etc as per the web site. This I loaded onto the D:\ drive of my eeePc 901 since it has 8 GB while c:\ has only 4.

Windows loads and runs, however it can't configure my wireless adapter. I get the message "Windows cannot configure this Wireless Connection". I tried running the .exe that Asus provides for the adapter but it didn't change anything. I have a D-Link USB wireless adapter. I tried to connect that using the accompanying DVD. I got the same message. An icon was generated on the desktop but clicking it had no effect.

Unfortunately I chose to redo the file system when loading Windows and lost my Last Session file (along with all of the rest of the Nlite files). Is there something in the customizing that I might have missed?

I also tried to load Microsoft Streets and Trips 2010. I got a message that a number of files must be loaded including .net. After some drive activity the computer stopped accessing the drive and the installation proceeded no further.

How would you suggest I approach these problems?

Dave

[bphlpt]

Start over.

Cheers and Regards

[Ponch]

Start over.

What a great advice...." doesn't work ? ... do it again."

Unfortunately I chose to redo the file system when loading Windows and lost my Last Session file (along with all of the rest of the Nlite files).

The ini file is also in the root of the install files set. I guess that part is not formatted when the install starts.

Attach it to your next post.

What exactly is written on your original XP SP2 media ? Don't come back in two months.

[bphlpt]

Sorry Ponch. Long day and too tired.

Cheers and Regards