Need help with a few WinXP problems.

[coolred]

First off, on my main rig, XP seems to work fine, never gives me a problem. Except when I try to make it hibernate. When i send it into hibernat emode, I immediately get a stop error every time, and it restarts. That really doesn't help since I was trying to keep the stuff I had open, then it restarts and I lose it all. Is there anything you can think of that would be easy to check that will fix this?

Secondly, my cousin needs a computer for school, just internet and word processing, no games or nothing. My sister just bought a new one, so she let me have her OLD one to fix up for my cousin. When I say old I mean pretty old. It has a 233Mhz pentium, with like 128MB ram and about a 6 gig hard drive. The drive is an old one I had lying around since my sister kept the one that was in the computer. Anyways, my cousin wanted to put XP on it. I told her if she bought it I would try to install it, but warned her the computer barely met the minimum requirments for XP. So she buys it and gives it to me. I format and partition the drive. Set the CD as bootable and insert the CD. Restart and get no boot from the CD. So now what do I do? I don't think the CDROM is bad, it worked fine for my sister. Please tell me its not something stupid like the CDROM is only 2x and XP requires at Least 4X to install or something? I went in through DOS and tried to run setup from there, but I get something saying smart drive is not enabled and then it takes forever.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Boot with the XP bootdisks.
Can be made from the CD or Download from here:

WinXP Pro Boot disks

WinXP Home Boot disks

 

[coolred]

Thanks I will give that a try.

As for my second problem, I have some new insight into it. Firstly the stop error says

Multiple_IRP_Complete_Requests

But the really weird part which i discovered by accident is, that if i tell the computer to restart instead of hibernate, then before it shuts down, tell it to hibernate, that seem to work. I accidently did it once and it worked, then i tried again on purpose and it worked again

 

[Binkster]

Morning coolred

Sorry to hear you are having issues. As to the boot problem. You said the computer is old does the mother board support boot from the cd? Might check the documentation for the board.

Then onto the other problem I found a link to another board discussing what sounds like the same thing.

link

Hope this helps.

 

[coolred]

Thanks I fixed the porblem installing XP. The disks helped, but there was some other stuff I had to do as well. Thanks for the link Binkster, that sounds like my problem and I am also running an 8500DV from ATI, so that is prolly the problem. I will download the drivers and see what happens.