vader69
05-31-2006, 11:58 AM
I will try to make this issue as brief as possible.
My Asus P4P800 board died on me. I was running raid on it but I have another Intel chipset machine so I was able to make a backup copy of the raid drives. I am trying to use this single drive copy and get it to work on the new motherboard and CPU but so far with limited luck.
Please don't start telling me that the easiest thing to do is a new install. I have tons of apps that are highly customized and will take months to sort out.
Here is what's happening. I have the raid array running on another machine as a slave. I use a Ghost to copy it on a single drive. I use slipstreamed xp/sp2 cd and load all necessary mb controller drivers with F6 key. I do a repair install. After first necessary reboot I get 0x0000007E error. I can't get in safe mode because it never finished the installation.
I have done this so many times that I've lost track. I don't remember exactly the sequence but at one time I actually got it running in safe mode. I installed xp without the service pack. It actually got past the first reboot and finished. After that it started looping but I got in safe mode.
I was able to read the boot log. The last driver loaded was mup.sys, after that came the ACPI stuff which apparently crapped out.
I read about the different types of hal.dll files and the ACPI compliance. I think that the issue may be there. While in safe mode I tried to uninstall intel chipset drivers for the old board but that did not seem to have an effect.
Here is my old vs. new specs.
Old: Asus P4P800, 3.20e Prescott, 6800GT AGP
New: Asus A8N32-SLI, AMD X2 4800+, 7900 GTX
RAM is the same Corsair PC4400 twins 1gb each.
It's also worth mentioning that I did a clean install on yet another drive and updated windows to current. Everything works fine. I did have a strange issue though. When I used the drive that was formatted when Ghost copied the old windows on it I had the same ACPI problem when attempting a fresh install. Quick format did not fix it. Had to do a full format.
So does this hal business write something on the mbr?
And the big question is - how can I save my windows and apps without starting over from scratch. I have plenty of drives and computers to experiment just about everything. I also bought another P4P800 from e-bay in hopes that I can use sysprep on the drive before moving it over. The board is on it's way.
Is this issue hal and ACPI? Any help is appreciated.
My Asus P4P800 board died on me. I was running raid on it but I have another Intel chipset machine so I was able to make a backup copy of the raid drives. I am trying to use this single drive copy and get it to work on the new motherboard and CPU but so far with limited luck.
Please don't start telling me that the easiest thing to do is a new install. I have tons of apps that are highly customized and will take months to sort out.
Here is what's happening. I have the raid array running on another machine as a slave. I use a Ghost to copy it on a single drive. I use slipstreamed xp/sp2 cd and load all necessary mb controller drivers with F6 key. I do a repair install. After first necessary reboot I get 0x0000007E error. I can't get in safe mode because it never finished the installation.
I have done this so many times that I've lost track. I don't remember exactly the sequence but at one time I actually got it running in safe mode. I installed xp without the service pack. It actually got past the first reboot and finished. After that it started looping but I got in safe mode.
I was able to read the boot log. The last driver loaded was mup.sys, after that came the ACPI stuff which apparently crapped out.
I read about the different types of hal.dll files and the ACPI compliance. I think that the issue may be there. While in safe mode I tried to uninstall intel chipset drivers for the old board but that did not seem to have an effect.
Here is my old vs. new specs.
Old: Asus P4P800, 3.20e Prescott, 6800GT AGP
New: Asus A8N32-SLI, AMD X2 4800+, 7900 GTX
RAM is the same Corsair PC4400 twins 1gb each.
It's also worth mentioning that I did a clean install on yet another drive and updated windows to current. Everything works fine. I did have a strange issue though. When I used the drive that was formatted when Ghost copied the old windows on it I had the same ACPI problem when attempting a fresh install. Quick format did not fix it. Had to do a full format.
So does this hal business write something on the mbr?
And the big question is - how can I save my windows and apps without starting over from scratch. I have plenty of drives and computers to experiment just about everything. I also bought another P4P800 from e-bay in hopes that I can use sysprep on the drive before moving it over. The board is on it's way.
Is this issue hal and ACPI? Any help is appreciated.