From: tony@the.jungle.drums   
      
   philo writted thus:   
      
   > On 05/18/2012 07:23 PM, tigger wrote:   
   >> "tigger" wrote in message news:jp60me$vau$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>   
   >> Inst> etc...   
   >>   
   >> We want XP on NTFS.   
   >>   
   >> Every time we go back and format the drive to NTFS and try to install   
   >> XP (genuine CD), the first reboot brings up the black XP loading screen   
   >> with logo and the little scrolling blue boxes, after a few seconds it   
   >> simply hangs... no errors reported, no BSD, the HD just stops and the   
   >> CD is not spinning. The HD LED goes out.   
   >> Obviously, booting back to CD completely restarts the install and it   
   >> hangs again.   
   >>   
   >> We are stuck!   
   >> We can't think of anything else, especially as Linux is fast and fine   
   >> to install (not a live session, format to ext4 and install) and will   
   >> run perfectly every time...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   > I did see that once on a P-III I worked on...   
   > the only way I got XP to load was to turn off ACPI in the BIOS. give   
   > that a try.   
   >   
   > (If it's presently off...then try turning it on)   
      
   We are now convinced it is a bios setting something like that, we are now   
   exploring the "pc type" options in the installer but no luck yet,   
   although in the installer F5 does have an "ACPI MULTIPROCESSOR PC" option   
   that we will try next...   
      
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