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March 7th, 2008 16:00
Boot manager defaults to "Microsoft Windows XP Professional Setup"
Inspiron E1405
After I power on the laptop, Boot Manager defaults to "Setup Windows" then BSOD if I let it try to setup
Gives the message .... pci.sys corrupted or missing. Address F76120BF base at F760B000
If I cursor UP to XP Home in Boot Manager, it starts up fine.
I have SP2, updates and current BIOS.
Tried editing boot.ini, even to the point of removing C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Setup" from the file. Windows puts it back in.
[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Setup"
Software is Windows XP Home Edition, so I don't know why that line says Professional
The PC runs perfectly fine, but if I miss the Boot Manager, I have to restart the laptop.
Any clues?????
After I power on the laptop, Boot Manager defaults to "Setup Windows" then BSOD if I let it try to setup
Gives the message .... pci.sys corrupted or missing. Address F76120BF base at F760B000
If I cursor UP to XP Home in Boot Manager, it starts up fine.
I have SP2, updates and current BIOS.
Tried editing boot.ini, even to the point of removing C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Setup" from the file. Windows puts it back in.
[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Setup"
Software is Windows XP Home Edition, so I don't know why that line says Professional
The PC runs perfectly fine, but if I miss the Boot Manager, I have to restart the laptop.
Any clues?????
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03codyn
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March 7th, 2008 18:00
Try editing your boot.ini file again (Start -> Run and type in 'C:\boot.ini'), but this time change the default option as well. It should look like this:
[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
Hope this helps, let us know.
03codyn
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March 7th, 2008 20:00
I was aware of that, but genealle didn't say anything about if he changed the default value to the XP Home option or not. If he didn't, I thought maybe it was recreating (adding the last line back in) it because it is still defaulting to C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT. I could be wrong though. I forgot about the /rebuild option.
Anyway, glad to hear it's fixed!
Pawk
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March 7th, 2008 20:00
My suggestion: Try a fixboot or a bootcfg /rebuild in recovery console.
I'd backup data before that just in case.
genealle
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March 7th, 2008 20:00
Eureka!
Worked like a charm.
Thanks!
genealle
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March 18th, 2008 12:00
Well, it worked for a week and somehow nuked itself and wouldn't boot at all.
I tried to install a copy of XP Pro Select and it again choked on "Now installing Windows", at 39 minutes left each time. "A problem has been detected with pci.sys".
After mucho research and bourbon, I discovered that apparently XP Pro (even with SP2) doesn't support a SATA hard drive, or at least very well on a Dell.
I took my XP Pro with SP2 and slipstreamed the SATA drivers into the ISO package and the install went flawlessly. Use a prog called nLite that worked well but is non-intuitive to use.
(Makes me wonder how they got the first load on the PC, but I think maybe it was Ghosted from a net share. My sister said the IT gal at work reloaded it for her. Didn't have SP2. Didn't have updates on, had an expired Norton AV..........)
Thanks all!
Hope this helps the next guy.