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Cannot Load OS
I have an older Inspiron 8500 and my OS became corrupted so I decided to do a complete reinstallation of XP pro. However, the installation only gets to 34 mins remaining and then freezes up and goes to a blue screen with a bunch of giberish on it (Not the standard bsod with error messages). I had an old version of windows 98 laying around so I thought I would give that a try but it wont even get past setting up the insallation menu.
I have tried running the dell diagnostics and chkdsk and both found no hardware or disk errors. Does anyone have any ideas on where to go from here?
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Posted March 10th, 2008 13:00
Everything is disconnected from the laptop but still cannot get past 34 mins on the install. The last 10 lines on the SETUPAPI are as follows, but I can't make any sense of them:
#I060 Set selected driver.
#I058 Selected best compatible driver.
#-124 Doing copy-only install of "V1394\NIC1394\2119D061444FC000".
#-166 Device install function: DIF_REGISTER_COINSTALLERS.
#I056 Coinstallers registered.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_INSTALLINTERFACES.
#-011 Installing section [nic1394.ndi.Interfaces] from "c:\windows\inf\net1394.inf".
#I054 Interfaces installed.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_INSTALLDEVICE.
#I123 Doing full install of "V1394\NIC1394\2119D061444FC000".Any ideas where to go from here? Thanks
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Posted March 10th, 2008 15:00
The last few lines refer to "NIC1394". You don't by chance have a network, modem or wireless (1394 firewire) card plugged into a slot in the laptop?
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Posted March 4th, 2008 16:00
You did disconnect all external devices, except mouse, keyboard and monitor..?
Start by read this. And if that doesn't help, google: XP reinstall 34 minutes
You'll find lots more on this issue.
Ron