Hi all.

An overseas friend of mine told me he experienced problems with his version of MS XP Professional. It was genuine, with SP3 installed, and had been working fine for a long time.

However, apparently he decided something was wrong with his hardware....as i can remember...and was playing around device manager. Then he told me suddenly there were a lot of repeat entries in device manager, many of which had yellow exclamation marks NEXT to them. He SENT me some pictures, and i think there was something wrong with the "resources"? Code 12?

Anyway, a lot of his hardware didn't work after that, including his machine's built in keyboard. My guess he was worried, so he repair-installed xp using his disc.

Problem then was, his xp did not boot after that. It got to the point where xp loading screen appears, then the blue screen with error: 0x000000a1 flashes for the briefest of moments, and the pc reboots. From the video he showed me, i think the BSOD mentioned something about PCI_BUS_DRIVER_INTERNAL ?

I suspect things may have gone wrong when he repair installed his sp3 xp with an sp2 disc. But anyhow, he's really worried right now (been so for quite a while too).

Does anyone know of a way to FIX this?Have him try to re-install his MBoard drivers...and suggest he not play around in Device Manager until he knows what he's dealing with...alright. how might he go about doing that? he says he can't boot at all. do you mean to slipstream the drivers into a new xp disc? if so, where might he find those drivers? from the Dell, HP or whatever website?hi, i know i'm not supposed to bump topics, but it's kinda falling back a few pages.

does noone have any idea for a solution? Can he boot to safe mode?
Or, how about reinstalling XP entirely?  Is that a solution in this case, i.e. any files to lose? Quote from: JXY on October 10, 2008, 03:25:35 AM

alright. how might he go about doing that? he says he can't boot at all. do you mean to slipstream the drivers into a new xp disc? if so, where might he find those drivers? from the Dell, HP or whatever website?