Can't boot WinPE CD on an Athlon XP system

[dassala]

Hi Folks. I'm using WAIK3 "Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7". The winpe CD I have made works great for every system I have imaged so far. The only issue I'm having is with a pair of computers each with an Athlon XP CPU. I get a boot failure message when I try to boot my trusty WinPE CD on either of two different computers. The message is rather terse:

"Failed to boot from CD"

I tried to boot the Athlons with a WinPE CD built using amd64 instead of x86 but I get the same failure message. I'm not finding anything in the docs about this. Does WinPE from AIK3 simply not work on Athlon XP CPU's?

Thanks in advance for your insights!

[Tripredacus]

I can't remember exactly if I have booted a WinPE on an Axp but I must have. I would wager that it isn't so much a problem with the CPU but with how the board works. If you are using an ATAPI or SATA ODD, try using a USB one. Or try having your WinPE boot from a USB key.

I rarely ever will use a CD to boot a custom WinPE, so I don't have much experience in that. To see if there is an actual problem with those boards and WinPE 3, presumably a Windows 7 RTM DVD would have the same problem, if not SP1.

[dassala]

As far as I know it really is just a coincidence that the only two computers to fail booting the WinPE CD are the ones with the Athlon XP CPU. One of them has an IDE CD ROM and the other is a SATA CD ROM. Both boards are too old to recognize USB as a valid boot device. Honestly I think I can convince the client to just upgrade the systems. They're old anyway. Thank you for commenting!

Regards,

Dassala

[Ponch]

Both boards are too old to recognize USB as a valid boot device.

"Plop boot" could solve that. Extract plpbt.iso from the 1st download package and that cd can chainload a boot from USB.