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Hi Antoni,

I think there might be a problem either with your mouse or keyboard. I have read from sources that any fault in the hardware leads to stalling of the installation

One of my computers work fine for 2 years. One day i got a error while starting windows explaining that there were missing drivers.

I also got the 34-minute-hiccup which was the first time i seen it.

With your solution it work fine, thank you VERY much for the easy howto.

heyyyyyyy you are the man
big thanks bro

Hi nexus,

Have you tried removing all the external devices which are plugged into your system. One of them might be faulty. In my case it was the modem.

please go through the solutions offered in the comments section of my old blog. I have not transferred those comments here due to some other reasons.

So please read from this link:
http://nitinpai.wordpress.com/2006/09/23/xp-installation-the-34-minute-hiccup/

can i delete cpu.inf??? ive deleted it and installation goes on well..at a certain point,it asks me new hardware found ’system’ and it tries to locate a software for it..i fink the cpu.inf is for the processor…

Hmmm i have a slight different problem, mines freezes at 32 minutes and it just freezes at the same spot everytime. Don’t know what to do at all. everything in my computer is new.

Hi Thanks very much you are indeed a genius

omg!

i have been trying to get this going all day and this was the only thing that would work, i kept trying to install this server 2003 then i did what was written out and now its installing right next to me!, it was something on the motherboard.. this is weird because i have installed server 2003 on it before…

Thanks allot!

Gabriel

im glad too thanks

@Cuong

Open the DOS prompt when you reboot the first time your installation hangs. But the installation CD should have been removed before the reboot.

Shift + F10 should work fine on any x86 machine. Try again. Good luck!

Hello everybody.
I need help, please.
My windows XP Pro installation hicc’s up when there are 39 minutes left, what can I do?
System:
2.80 Ghz Dual core.
1 GB Ram.
320 S-Ata HDD.
2 DVD Drives (1 Has Lighscribe)
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce (Can not remember the model), but it has 256 MB ram, and 256 Shared)

I have installed XP on this PC before and it worked properly.
I have tried various CD’s, and different drives, but I can not figure out what to do.

Best reguards, Mark.

@Cuong -
Do all the files get copied from the installation disk to your hard drive. If you have skipped some of them than the installation might not work properly. But in any case if beyond the 34 minute stalling, there might be problem either with your installation disk files or your hard drive might have some bad sectors.

Please refer to my earlier blog regarding the same post which might have some suggestions from people.

http://nitinpai.wordpress.com/2006/09/23/xp-installation-the-34-minute-hiccup/

Try using a fresh installation disk or try with a spare hard drive. Good luck!

@Mark

Im glad that you found it useful. Thanks for the compliments!

Thanks !

It solved my problem !
First :
- Begin the install –> got stuck at 34′
- Restart in Debug Mode
- Then, at 34′, instead of being stuck, the computer asked me for my graphic card’s CD !

I inserted the CD, and after a few minutes, the installation resumed !
Ben.

@crazyred - I think you will have to search on the net elsewhere for that specific problem.

@BSE - Cheers mate for getting the installation done

@Mike - Interesting trials! Did you finally succeed in getting the installation done?

@Mike - Good to know that the solution proved useful to you. By the way what’s the need of so many hard drives to you?

>@Mike - Good to know that the solution proved useful to you. By the way what’s the need of so many hard drives to you?

Thanks. Why so many drives? All those dirty pictures of course. Actually, I’m a writer and musician (not a very good one but what the heck…) and my music chews up an enormous amount of space but I also need to start mirroring my data…getting tired of losing it. I’ve actually got more than double the space that I need right now but I’ll chew it up. Funny: I took a systems analyst position in 1985 for a company that had a string of IBM 3370 FASB drives … 750 mb each at a cost of $50,000. We probably had 5 or 6 gb of disk drives…now I’ve got almost a terabyte at home lol…

ya i meant .inf not .ins my fault

OK this is really pressing my buttons. I am really really mad about this right now. I tried every single solution and didnt work. I deleted the last inf in the last few lines about lets say 3 times!! And it didnt work. i deleted”iis”,”netpsa”, and one other dont remember. Please be more specific cuz this issue isnt any puny issue like the other people are having its some serious issue where it wont stop freezing. Please help and be more SPECIFIC need a file name not tell me what to do. It just freezes after 34 minutes doesnt restart if u would want to know that. I got windows xp home. Please help im sure u would know what to do.

@tanner - None of the issues are puny, and if it was probably one wouldnt have complained! As far as your problem is concerned, the solution I have given will work if your basic hardware is allright and only external devices have failed. But if your bare minimum hardware is at fault then it would probably be good it you get it checked from your vendor.

@Mike - Thanks for your helpful comments. I am sure that you must have definitely found out many other alternatives than the solution I have provided and I am glad that you like to share them with the rest. Thanks again!

ok well i guess i should thank you for your help. But you see i am asking your help only because i dont want to remove my hardware nor spend money on a hardrive or go looking for a free one. I dont think that i should contact my computer manafacuator or any people for help on this issue. I also dont think that the problems people have here are much of a issue at all actually. Because to be honest i found a way to fix this issue without all that confusing stuff you people have been telling on here. You dont need to remove all this hardware or contact people for help, u dont need to buy a hardrive, nor do u have to remove a trillion inf files. I will tell u how i fixed my hardrive:

I restarted the computer after the 34 minute hang.
Then i DIDNT remove the cd which half the people tell u to do to fix it which tells u they dont know one thing they are talking about cuz u dont do that to fix it.

Right away and i mean right away when setup starts u must click shift+f10 and go to setupapi.log then from there u have to go all the way to the bottom and see if the file netpsa is there(now this is only if ur reparing windows with reinstallation cd and u have the autochk not found problem) and if netpsa isnt at the bottom then u have to search for it and if u find it then go back to the cmd.exe command from there u gotta type del(space)netpsa.inf dont forget the space between del and netpsa.inf. Who cares what other people say what netpsa is because i removed it and it helped with the next part. Now you have to open machine.inf.

If you cant then just go to setupapi.log and from there find machine.inf and copy that file to the command and open it now this next part might sound a little weird but trust me its a lot worth it then deleting a million inf files when it wont do u one good. Let your computer keep going for a few hours(4-5 roughly maybe more depends if you have the issue i told u this fixes) and then it should go straight to 33 minutes in no time. From there just chill and watch the setup complete. Now remember this is only for if you have the startup problem”autochk not found-skipping autocheck” and that ur reparing windows with the reinstallation disk.

I’m sure this will work if you do everything correctly cuz if it worked for me it will work for you. Also try to remember that dont try doing all that confuzing info people tell you to fix your problem because if u dont know what your doing its best doing my solution its easy and will work fine for you every though it may take a few hours it will take as much time deleting all those inf files and feeling dumb that it doesnt work. Glad i could help.

well looks likes its the 4th like i said time to blow up the comp and hd and the windows disc ill get a video and pics of it if i can KABOOM!!!

I have had this 34-minute hang problem for well over a year now!!! Ok, so I checked the usual suspects: RAM, HDDs, LS120, Sound card, Network adaptor, and modem. I recently upgraded my processor (thinking maybe the other one crapped out…who knows anymore?) Nope…no good. A friend loaned me a new motherboard (this time, AMD based). I restarted repair setup again (since it’s now a different HAL) and still it hangs at 34 minutes. If I let it sit there for two or three days (seriously!) it might get down to 29, but that’s it. In any event, I can tell you that it is probably not hardware related (but, I could be wrong….). In my setupapi.log file–this time, anyway–it’s stopped at installing USB stuff (which was successfully installed, btw), but it refuses to go any further. Any thoughts, suggestions or comments? Since I have pretty much at one point or another eliminated every piece of hardware, I really don’t know where to look anymore. BTW, in case some one noticed, I missed the power supply…but I had just bought a new one about 3 years ago (and have only used it for about a year because I had a previous instance where my computer was down for the count for six months!) One last thing: XP is great…but as I’m typing this, I’m on Linux. I keep XP for Quicken and Office…but Linux is the way to go…none of this crap! Any help is appreciated. TIA!

Another thing that will help sometimes after it has stopped is to enter the command prompt as stated above, type in taskmgr and look at the running processes. I have killed spoolsv.exe to get the pc back to going as well. It will start another as needed. Hope that helps someone!

Andrew - please check the command if entered properly or not

[…] Already last week I had problems with my mouse. The right button didn’t wanted to work. So yesterday I really got tired with it. And easy, get a new mouse, and voila, done. Nope. Also the same problem. So, trouble shooting, searching the I*net nothing could give me an answer. Ok, M$ installation repair can bring help. I’m sure it can, but not for me. I received the 34 minutes bug. […]

Nitinpai, you are the frickin man!!!! This fix saved my ass and tons of time. I Googled my problem and couldnt find anything anywhere else, until I finally came across yours. I was stuck in a repair loop on a very important machine, and this totally saved me. Thank you very much!

Hey nitinpai, great job you done there.
I did like you wrote, but in my case every time there was a difrent device |lol| first it was modem, then tv/fm tuner, flopy,dvd and @ end hdd . Im shore that every decvice is functioning properly except the mobo.
i menage to pass 34′ when i deleted machine.inf but then i’ve got bsod @ win startup.
How it is possible that every time i had a diferent faulty device, is my mobo fault right?
sorry for bad english

hey,

well the problem is solved thnks a lot

but now i have another problem :S , the .inf that i needed to delete its about audio and now i can’t install my sound drivers

what can i do ??

capz

Mike

it detects the sound drive but when im gonna install the drivers it says “cant find INF file” .

what can i do ?

What’s amazing is that Microsoft can’t come up with anything better than “format your hard drive and start again”. It really shouldn’t be this hard.

thanks for the solution….it makes me hard to understand specially when to press the shift+f10 but it’s ok..i got it..

thank you.

I’m trying the fix but it does not seem to work. I checked the log and the last *.inf it was using was the machine.inf. I deleted it but when the disc boots again, it freezes up at now 35 minutes rather than the 34

Nitinpai,

dunno if you’re still checking on these. Just used your fix to get passed an ugly hiccup at 33 mins/regional settings on XP pro install on a laptop. Bad file/hw = wave.inf. Makes sense with other problems the laptop has had. I know nothing about how this file integrates with hardware; previous windows-updates have apparently re-activated the file/hw and caused xp to freeze right after startup. Any suggestions on how to prevent hw/file from causing any more problems? Is this a hw problem or a driver issue somehow?

Hello! Thank you!, Tank you!, Thank you!… I have been racking my brains for over three days now with this problem. I knew it was the modem which was giving me a problem but had not idea how to skip the modem installation.

Sir, you are my champion, I will have a good nights sleep tonight!

OMG I LOVE YOU DUDE!!!

Erika, Britt, Arihant and Dave, 3 Cheers for getting your installation done. And it feels good that this post has helped many people. Thanks for all your compliments.

@risyadi -

Since the port you are talking about are built-in so it is not possible to isolate them if any fault exists in them. So please get your hardware checked from a service center.

Hello everyone, I had 2 partitions on my hard drive and XP and Vista loaded on each. The other day I downloaded a software on XP and since then I couldnt boot to XP. However, I could still boot to Vista. Then, I tried repairing XP using the XP disk, but it got stuck at 39 minutes. Now I cannot even boot to Vista. Whenever I start the computer, it directly goes to the set up (39 minutes) window. I tried checking for the .inf file, but couldnt find one. I even tried booting from XP/Vista disk, but it still goes to the set up window. I have already disabled sound and LAN. Please help.

and it keeps dowing it

Daniel — I hear how frustrated you are. I’m surprised you got that response from Dell. First of all, the symptoms you describe are unlikely to be unique to Dell. Dell support is mostly trained to have you put the Restore CD in. I am 99% sure this is a bad device driver. You should physically remove from your computer EVERYTHING that is not absolutely needed to install Windows. Remove your soundcard, remove any USB devices (if you can, use USB to PS/2 adapters if you have USB keyboard or mouse), especually make sure to remove any SATA boards, SATA drives (except for your root of course) and be sure to go into your BIOS and set it to Fail Safe. While in there, disable any onboard LAN, RAID and sound. This problem CAN be solved. One thing: let us know if you recently replaced a piece of harware, especially the motherboard,

well actuly it is a broken driver that happened it was in intel driver or creative sount blaser but now it dosent realy mater sice i had formated anyway because i need the computer but now i just formated atleast now i can instal some uupdates i couldent for some reason

i found this out after formating and ree contacting dell

Thanks Jeff,

I myself had gone through many troubles solving this problem. And I am glad this is working out for many now.

Part 1 of your comments can be greatly speeded up if you copy the disk to a hard drive and run setup from there. As to the install taking forever, that depends on how much memory and what processor you have. I’ve done installs in anywhere from 35 (P4, 512 MB RAM): to 65 (P2, 192 MB RAM) minutes, and that’s if all went smoothly.

Also, Check out the command-line options for setup.exe (run X:\setup.exe /? at a command prompt, where X: is your CD, or HD, or google around, and you may find an install swith that works for you.

BD

I am having a similar issue, except that instead of freezing, when it gets to 34 minutes the system will reboot and begin installing again. I have followed your tip and deleted the last “.inf” file listed in the setupapi,.log file three times (each time it’s a different one), to no avail. Any ideas?

Johnnymo — THAT sounds very similar to the problem I was having 6 months back. I don’t suppose you just replaced your motherboard? If so, I don’t suppose the old one had VIA drivers? I replaced my motherboard — the old one had the VIA chipset while the new one didn’t. It basically couldn’t handle the hard drives. I had to go out to a command prompt as described in here and xcopy my files off the C drive to other drives. Then, I reformatted it. I had to do the same with all the others moving the files around. I was fortunate that in replacing the motherboard, I also added another big drive. Even after all that, I had to disconnect one of my SATA drives while doing the XP Repair and then reconnect it after Windows was correctly installed. A bit of a pain but I had been fighting the problem for a week. It’s really just a variation on the problems described on this page.

Johnnymo — If you haven’t replaced your mobo, then why are you doing the windows install. Is it a new install? A repair install? If the latter, and if you just installed a new driver or new device, you might want to remove it from the computer before going through the trauma of reformatting. Otherwise:

Follow instructions at the top of the page to get to a command prompt. At that point, the usual tools (fdisk, format, xcopy, etc., are available). One thing I told you was incorrect: I actually in the new hard drive so that it would be my C (had 2 other IDE and 2 other SATA drives plus a CD/DVD reader/writer). That removed one complication. I initially partitioned that and, in the XP install, got out to the command prompt. I copied all of my files off a drive onto the new drive and then used format to, well, format it. If at all possible, I would (assuming you have a C and D drive): copy all your important files from D to C. Format D. Copy all the files back and then copy all your important C drive files as well.. Turn off the PC. Unplug all unnecessary hardware. Start the PC and restart the Windows install. This time, have it format the C drive. You should get a clean install. After getting your basic settings set up, power down and plug in each device — preferably one at a time — powering up the computer and letting Windows discover them each time. You’ll have to reinstall your apps and then you can take your time copying back files that you need/want. Tedious but it’ll work.

A simple upgrade and you’re having those hassles? Thanks a lot, MS. I wonder if your XP Home is like SP2 and the upgrade is to a pre-SP2 XP Pro? In any case, when you are prompted for where to install XP, you should have an option to delete the partition. You should do so. If you have only the one drive, I think it might be prudent to create a bootable floppy (esp to make sure you are still able to access the CD). Your BIOS probably supports booting from a CD but why be sorry? You can download a bootable floppy image from MS: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q310994

I’ve not done an install on a machine with one hard drive in a long time. If you could spare a few bucks for a second HD I think you’re life would be way easier. Good luck!

Thank you thank you thank you - worked like a champ - life saver!!!!!

Mahesh - How to install XP on your PC? I’d try putting running setup off of the CD and follow the on-screen prompts. Do you have a problem other than that?

how can we install two operating systems at a time,

can u tell me plz

Justin — the guide didn’t really quite answer my problem but it got me going. I was going to 33 and 32 minutes like you. I had at one point deleted EIDE.INF (or something like that) and actually got XP installed only to get bsod’d to death. For me, the problem really turned out to be the VIA IDE drivers from my prior motherboard. I had to get out to a command prompt using the instructions in this blog, copy my important files off of the C drive, format it, and basically repeat the process for my D, E IDE drives. That wiped out all vestiges of the old VIA drivers and also formatted the drives in a manner compatible with the new mobo. Interestingly, there was a 2 mb difference in available space after partioning and formatting. I unplugged my one SATA drive and removed everything from the computer except the IDE drives, the CD/DVD player and the video board. That got me as far as XP Pro finally installing properly. I then plugged the other devices back in and let Windows recognize them and I’ve had no problems since.

@berk, I am glad it worked for you too.

After windows repair process completed without any freeze during the boot unfortunately blue screen suddenly appaer and disappered and no boot .

Then after more research about issue via google I found another easy and working method for repair hang up problem.

After copied the xp the repair files to the hdd then during the first boot session

press F8 and select the debugging mod ,

windows is contiuning to the repair process in the debugging mode , so repair process is passing the hang up minutes and booting properly .

Sincerly yours.

OK - I finally got it up and it stalled. I found the .inf file as suggested but when I went to DOS it would not bring up .inf folder? Couldn’t find file or path. I tried every which way. I did bring up notepad when I typed c:\windows\inf\machine.inf and that is a page full of stuff I don’t dare delete. Help!!!

Debra - you first need to change to the inf director: “cd \windows\inf” (without the quotes of course). Delete the last inf file listed in the setupapi.log file. While I doubt that machine.inf is your problem, deleting it won’t be the end of the world…at worst, setup will replace it. It would be interesting to know what the most recent 4 or 5 inf files listed are. I would also make sure that EVERYTHING is disconnected from the ‘puter except your keyboard, mouse, monitor, CD Drive, floppy and the hard drive to which you are installing windows. If this install is as the result of replacing your motherboard, especially if the old one used VIA drivers., let us know.

Hi Mike, thanks so much. I am currently trying to figure out what video board I have. I’m very slow at these things. I knew I needed to get the driver for it, but I don’t even know what I have. Can you please tell me where to look to find out what video board I have? Thanks!

Mike, this site is great, and you’re all too wonderful. After getting the monitor info and downloading it and putting it on my computer, the same problem started all over again. XP wouldn’t turn on and then I got an ‘eminent hard drive error’ again with a missing file that needed to be reloaded. I’ve decided to take it to a technician, have them load XP for me and start all over. I can’t handle this. Sadly, I just don’t know enough and I’m flying blind. I think I could be making things worse than they are.

Is this an XP issue? Does XP just stink or what?

Just wanted to thank you for this post. Ive been fighting to get xp on my one computer for years because of this problem.

@Meaghan - Although I have not used Vista, I am sure that once you format your hard drive the XP Pro should get installed quite easily. But the freeze problem is not about having Vista uninstalling, its more of a hardware problem as you probably might have read in the above comments.

Dan — yeah, the solution still applies.

I have been going crazy trying to upgrade my W2K Pro to Win XP Pro. Have replaced memory, run diagnostics on HDs and board, unplugged peripherals etc
System is P4 with 2GB new RAM, 2 optical drives, 140GB HD split into 4 drives (C is 40GB with 20 free)

The upgrade starts normally and runs fine until I get a message unable to find VIA IDE drivers. I have the latest drivers from MSI on the hard drive and also on the original motherboard utility CD. But install will not read those files when I prompt with the locations. If I skip those files and proceed then I get a string of error messages around the 32 minute mark saying unable to copy file starting with “setup cannot copy file CMPROPS.DL_ from i386″. It seems very few files get copied from this point and when install concludes XP will not boot. This happens whether I run the upgrade from within W2K or boot from the XP install CD.

I have copied the entire i386 directory to my HD. The number of files are the same as on the CD’s i386 directory and the MB is the same, but still install won’t copy those same files when given the alternate location. I have tried install from my DVD-RW and also my older CD-RW.

W2K is current with all the service packs and live updates. Could a file in W2K that XP SP2 install looks for be different due to updates and be causing the problem?

Thats weird i had Windows XP Home Edition w/
896 MB RAM
AMD Sempron(tm) Processor at 1.80Ghz
NVIDIA GeForce6100 with pixel shader 3.0 in hardware

and i upgraded to Windows Vista Home Premium without any problems or hiccups.

Thanks! nitinpai
Let me tell you a story.
My son’s computer had a problem one month ago.
He resolved to reinstall.
Since that, computer shutted down in 35mins of install.
After some two weeks or so, he brought the computer to the computer shop for specialists to help him.
It took them two weeks or so to come up with the idea of broken motherboard.
I got into it and got the computer back yesterday. I payed 50 bucs for idea of broken motherboard and today sat down to google the problem. After one hour chase I found your article and deleted CPU.inf
After that installation resumed and all OK.
Thank you again very much.

I recently reformatted my pc and went to install xp pro.The refomat went fine.During the installation I got to 34 minutes then my pc froze.I deleted the first problem which was a file named “gameport.inf”.I tried to go thru the installation again then got to 29 minutes,the pc was on the stage of “installing network”.That stage would install but freeze when this section had to build a file list.I rebooted again and tried to install and the damn thing freezes on 34 minutes.what to dooooooooooo?

Very similar problem. Quad core 3.4 ghz, 4 gig ram (clean), 500 gb HDD (clean), media center xp disc (no scratches) Freezes only on one harddrive after I tried repair. Did the same on another HDD worked fine. after install on my working HDD I copied its INF folder on my HDD1, still freezes at 35mins. your advice does not help. Found multiple problems with bluetooth, removed all. advice?

So I had this issue where the installation would stall at 34 minutes also, but instead of freaking out… which I actually did… I decided to let it play out. I let my computer be and while doing so I came across this thread to see if i can find a solution to the problem. I read two posts, this one and another explaining the same scenario of a faulty .inf file. Gritting my teeth in fear that I would have to deal with DOS again, I turned to my computer praying that it would just work, all of a sudden my hard drive led began to flicker and a prompt appeared on my screen regarding some kind of driver update utility, I pressed Okay, and the installation continued… Lucky me huh? So with my basic computer knowledge It makes sense to me that since my drivers were already installed on the system before its destruction, when conducting a repair installation, i.e. after windows setup searches for previous installations, it would consult the driver location of the previous installation and use those drivers when installing devices at 34 minutes. Since the computer is installing devices and is not using the database of drivers on the cd it would naturally take longer to search through the previous installations drivers. Thats how I understood it. After completing this I found all of my devices worked perfectly as well as all of my programs.

I remember kaspersky not uninstalling correctly about 2 months ago…but kaspersky is a program not a hardware device right?

Mine is a repair install so i hope i dont need a cd key for it :\ and i hope it works!

it got up to 32 minutes did the regional settings and now its stalled again ugh windows sucks lol

Um, forgive me for sounding dumb, but how do I go to the C:/WINDOWS/inf folder in the command prompt? I never learned how to utilize that particular feature.

ok so my win xp crapped out n i decided to repair…
i got the 34 minute stall - using the info here i got to ID the inf that was being a #%$ …. it was a usb driver for the mobo….instead of deleting it (since my kybd + mouse are usb!) i put in a second install on a diff partition- which ironically worked without issues! then i put in all clean drivers and copied the entire inf folder to the repairing copy of winxp (replacing it). rebooted n reentered setup…stalled @33! was my audigy sound card so i plucked it. restarted….GOT PAST 33! woohoo!!!! and then it stalled again! this time @28. this is where it gets fun (with a capital F). I was out of ideas so i started playin with taskmgr and the like. One thing i found was that hitting shift + f11 give you better progress info - for example @ 28 it said “completing installation” or something but in the f11 window it said “configuring fax services”. so i got to thinking maybe its fax now…..plucked it and strait deleted the inf for it (started with fxo….inf…..rebooted….
Now im at 14 minutes n its going on as i type on my laptop….
Bottom line:
good stuff on this site!!!!!! Thanks
Also use shift f11 to see exactly what part is being configured past the 34 min marker- then fix or delete the inf file, also consider a second partition install even just to make sure its a software issue, not hardware…if all else fails play around with taskmgr, infs etc @ yr own risk! lol
my 2 cents anyway…

Hey Nitinpi,

You’re the MAN!

Thanks for this guide. I was spending the whole lot of time googling on howto get out from the mess of Crashing XP installation about 35 minutes (in my case).

It worked!!

Thank you thank you thank you thank you..

More POWER!!

Bong

i followed nitinpai instructions… and it worked out well. i deleted the “nv4_disp.inf” file.

the window xp installation is now complete… i just wanted to know whats next?? i mean i deleted the “nv4_disp.inf”, and i dont even know what it was. so, is there any file or driver i should install to replace the file i deleted?? i think the file i deleted was related to ‘NVIDIA GEFORCE’… any help or guide will be highly appreciated… thanks!!

thx nitinpai..

everything works fine now… but i have noticed that when i scroll down thru anything.. its so slow.. i was scrolling down thru this page n it was quite slow.. there is kind of a pause when i scroll down…

as for the cd.. i think i lost it.. but when i switch on my comp, its written Nvidia GeForce MX 400SE (not quite sure!!)

and also when i view any clips/video files, the picture is not 100% clear.. when i open any folder in my comp n if i drag them around, its slow and like i said there is a pause before it moves on… im trying my best to explain the problem… i hope you understand what im trying 2 say..

what do u think is da problem?? does this ‘nvidia geforce..’ play an important role?? coz im not that much into comp.. so i dont quite really know all these things..

pls bear with me!

thx a lot!!

i downloaded the nvidia graphic card driver… so when i installed this driver on my comp.. it was going fine but suddenly there was this ‘blue death screen’… n i had 2 restart my comp… so basically i can conclude that my graphic card is faulty..

thx a lot nitinpai for all the help n instructions!! in a way u taught me a lot… i will get my graphic card replaced n will let you know if it works or not….

Jai Maharashtra !!!

Hello,

OK, I’m stumped on this one. I followed the instuctions down to the T, When I viewed the setupapi log, the only inf file i see in the last 4 to 5 lines is system.inf.

I deleted the system.inf file (not the best idea in the world but gave it a shot). The installation did complete but now windows will not boot, it’s stuck in a continuous rebooting loop. I basically can’t do anything with it. Please help!

I am having this problem on my laptop. I have tried the things listed here but in my setupapi file the last .inf file is a LONG way from the bottom. Here is my last lines. Please help, too much info and don’t want to reformat……
#I121 Device install of “ROOT\LEGACY_VSDATANT000″ finished successfully.
[2008/03/07 13:13:25 668.1430 Driver Install]
#-199 Executing “C:\WINDOWS\system32\setup.exe” with command line: setup -newsetup
#-166 Device install function: DIF_SELECTBESTCOMPATDRV.
#W059 Selecting best compatible driver failed. Error 0xe0000228: There are no compatible drivers for this device.
#W157 Default installer failed. Error 0xe0000228: There are no compatible drivers for this device.
#I060 Set selected driver.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_INSTALLDEVICE.
#I125 Installing NULL driver for “ROOT\LEGACY_WANARP000″.
#W100 Query-removal during install of “ROOT\LEGACY_WANARP000″ was vetoed by “Root\LEGACY_WANARP000″ (veto type 1: PNP_VetoLegacyDevice).
#W104 Device “ROOT\LEGACY_WANARP000″ required reboot: Query remove failed (install) CfgMgr32 returned: 0×17: CR_REMOVE_VETOED.
#I121 Device install of “ROOT\LEGACY_WANARP000″ finished successfully.
[2008/03/07 13:13:26 668.1432 Driver Install]
#-019 Searching for hardware ID(s): lgl_tvtpktfiltermp
#-199 Executing “C:\WINDOWS\system32\setup.exe” with command line: setup -newsetup
#-166 Device install function: DIF_SELECTBESTCOMPATDRV.
#W059 Selecting best compatible driver failed. Error 0xe0000228: There are no compatible drivers for this device.
#W157 Default installer failed. Error 0xe0000228: There are no compatible drivers for this device.
#I060 Set selected driver.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_INSTALLDEVICE.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_REMOVE.
#I289 Removing device “ROOT\LGL_TVTPKTFILTERMP001″.

I have followed just about every suggestion on this site (and many others) and still hang at 34 mins. I have managed to get Windows 98 onto my laptop so I can at least check the setup files for XP. My troublesome device is a Texas Instruments IEEE 1394 bus controller. I presume this is the firewire socket (honestly I have been Googling this for several days now!). If I remove the 1394.inf it does not skip over this device as you suggest it would. Instead, it hangs again trying to install a null driver. I have downloaded the TI driver set for this device (from some site in Taiwan who appear to be the source for TI drivers) and run the setup for the drivers from W98 but still cannot get XP to move on. I have also tried removing the device using the Device Manager but this doesn’t stop XP trying to install the driver. When I log back in as W98 the new hardware is detected and a driver is loaded (if I want it to) so I presume XP is also still trying to load the device even though I disable it. Short of digging the device out with a screwdriver, I don’t know what else I can try! Any help would be appreciated…