rehallaz
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This is an HP Compaq NS6110
A friend got it from a penal institution where they used it as part of an educational program. It had stopped booting XP Pro, so their tech took a look at it and declared it had a bad HD, so they gave it to my friend.
When he brought it to me, I thought I might either replace the HD or use it for parts. When I started testing it, all hardware tests I could throw at it passed clean (Hdd both Seagate and generic, memory tests, etc. from UBCD).
Boot process clears post, then tries to load XP. Result is the 0x50 I mentioned in the header (page fault, etc). Safe Mode same.
What got me is that the XP Install CD gets the same result, thus no recovery console.
My Mint linux runs just fine from CD, and everything I throw at it runs just fine.
Google search pointed to a MS fix back in February that looked promising (KB977165), but after using Linux to step through the uninstall txt for this patch, I merely got a different BSOD code (0x74, as I recall).
At this point I am about decided to nuke and pave this beast.
I tackled this largely as a learning experience and as a favor for a friend, and to that end it's paid off for me. I learned a lot about testing and undoing patches by hand when MS won't load for beans.
My question for all you fine folks is:
What can cause the XP install cd to fail like this but a Linux live cd loads perfectly? (my guess at this point is that there's some driver problem that XP relies upon that won't go away until I reformat)
I'll appreciate any responses or ideas you can offer, and I eagerly await them.
/rich
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A friend got it from a penal institution where they used it as part of an educational program. It had stopped booting XP Pro, so their tech took a look at it and declared it had a bad HD, so they gave it to my friend.
When he brought it to me, I thought I might either replace the HD or use it for parts. When I started testing it, all hardware tests I could throw at it passed clean (Hdd both Seagate and generic, memory tests, etc. from UBCD).
Boot process clears post, then tries to load XP. Result is the 0x50 I mentioned in the header (page fault, etc). Safe Mode same.
What got me is that the XP Install CD gets the same result, thus no recovery console.
My Mint linux runs just fine from CD, and everything I throw at it runs just fine.
Google search pointed to a MS fix back in February that looked promising (KB977165), but after using Linux to step through the uninstall txt for this patch, I merely got a different BSOD code (0x74, as I recall).
At this point I am about decided to nuke and pave this beast.
I tackled this largely as a learning experience and as a favor for a friend, and to that end it's paid off for me. I learned a lot about testing and undoing patches by hand when MS won't load for beans.
My question for all you fine folks is:
What can cause the XP install cd to fail like this but a Linux live cd loads perfectly? (my guess at this point is that there's some driver problem that XP relies upon that won't go away until I reformat)
I'll appreciate any responses or ideas you can offer, and I eagerly await them.
/rich
bitdancers.com
