Here's something weird. I had a hard drive fail on my a short while ago. I purchased a new one and proceeded to reinstall Windows. I have an XP Pro upgrade disc, as well as a full version of 2000 Pro. If I TRY to do a fresh install of XP, after insterting the 2000 disc when prompted, it'll get within 3 or 4 minutes of completing the installation and I'll get the "blue screen of death" with a Machine Error. However, I can install 2000 and it will run without any problems. If I try to upgrade to XP after installing 2000, once again I'll get the blue screen. What would cause this to happen? Here's a little info on my machine: It's home built with an AMD ATHLON 64 3700+ CPU, 512MB PC3200 Kingston RAM, 80GB Seagate Hard Drive, 128MB Dedicated Graphics card with NVidia Chipset, generic cd-rom and dvd+/-rw, all on an ASUS motherboard.

HELP!!!

ThanksFed and I say you're better off with Win2K. All of the good stuff, none of the fluff!

Is it a shiny real Windows CD?Yup. Shiney, new, for real Windows CD. Purchased and everything with a real, genuine key.What is the specific error message?I don't have that info right this minute, but I can try to reload again tonight and see what it says.Error Message:

MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION

Stop: 0X0000009C (0X00000004, 0X80545FF0, 0XB2000000, 0X00070F0F)

It also mentioned stuff about turning off caching and whatnot.

Again, please help!http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=162363&sd=RMVP 0X0000009C
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314830 0X00000004

(0x00000004, Parameter2, Parameter3, Parameter4):

This error occurs because the system received some data type other than the expected integer as a package element when defining a _PRW method in the ACPI namespace. _PRW is only defined for systems that have the ability to wake the system from Sleep mode. Among other things, _PRW defines the lowest power system state that the system can enter and be able to wake up.


Some reading


Did you have XP on the computer before?
Here's the complete saga on this stupid machine...

I had upgraded my hardware several months ago, and had XP running without a problem. A couple weeks ago, my hard drive died. I purchased an 80G Seagate and replaced my old drive. I originally had the pin configuration wrong, inadvertantly setting it up as a 32GB slave drive. Windows 2000 would install and run without a problem, but I would have the same errors that I'm referring to right now when I tried to upgrade to XP. When I realized about the pin error on my new HD, I switched that and was able to load and run XP. About a week ago, I went to turn on the computer and it would turn on but I wouldn't get any icons, start menu, anything. I attempted to do a system repair using the XP disc, but I kept getting the same errors. I switched back to an older 40G hard drive, so as not to lose anything on my current drive. 2000 will still load and run without a problem, but when I try to upgrade it to XP I'll get within a couple minutes of it FINISHING and I keep getting the same errors. Now, I did read something about the bios being set up incorrectly with the hard drives and whatnot, which I can check into, but I'm at work and won't be able to until tonight. However, if ANYONE has any other words of wisdom, I'll gladly take them.First of all I beleave your upgrade is actually a full version. Most upgrades that I have seen are full versions that LOOK for a previous version for compliance. If you have more than 1 disk drive then put the xp in one and the 2000 in the other. Then erase the boot sector. Delete all partitions then restart the computer and put the primary partiton back. Reboot then FORMAT with the format utillity on the XP disk useing the NTFS file system I would not use the quick one. After all this is done then XP should start to install. I'm not certain where but at some point it will ask you for a file that is on a previous version of windows. tell it where it can find it (the Other Drive) or you can take out the XP disk and put it in that drive. All you need is the drive letter it will find what it needs.
This should work. Good luck.
EricI've done that before. Each time, right before I format, it asks to see my Windows 2000 disc. It reads it, and then I switch back to do the format and start the install. I still get the blue screen with the error message when I do this.

I'm at work, but I'm going to try some things when I get home. I need to check my bios to make sure my hard drive configuration is correct. I'm also going to try that F7 thing I read about when it starts to install Windows just to see if that might work.

I'm crossing my fingers!

P.S. I've checked on the ASUS website, and at this point there aren't any BIOS upgrades available, so as far as that goes, I'm stuck.UPDATE:

So, I changed some things in my bios concerning my hard drive configuration, and VOILA I'm up and running again!

Thanks for everyone's help!

Anton