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    Windows XP pci.sys install error

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by WallyF, Oct 17, 2009.

  1. WallyF

    WallyF Newbie

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    I bought my daughter an inspirion b310 five years ago. She got a major virus and her significant other wanted to start over so he deleted all the partitions, set an active partition, formatted it with NTFS. He has a licensed version of XP and when he tries to install it, he gets a memory and pci.sys error. We have run memtest and found no memory errors. Then we tried installing Win98 and it installed without errors. Windows XP installed as an update until the system had to reboot then got the same error. My daughter cannot find her original disks that came when I purchased the computer for her. Any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
    WallyF, Oct 17, 2009
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    How about using a slip-streamed XP SP2 disk for installation?

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Oct 17, 2009
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