Comments on: XP Installation – The 34 minute hiccup

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By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:02:51 +0000

I had this same problem this past week when trying to install Windows 2003 R2, SP2, x64 Enterprise on a Dell PE 905. This server had been in production since 2009 running W2K3 Ent w/ MSSQL with no problems when we decided to re-purpose with a clean build to assist in migrating all of our MSSQL clusters to W2K8R2. Given the server had a PERC 6/i controller, I used the Dell Build & Install CD given the 2003 media didn’t include these drivers natively. Although the Linux-based GUI loaded, the system would freeze (no mouse/keyboard input) at various points throughout the setup. I tried everything under the sun from different CDs, different CD/DVD drive hardware, creating various Virtual Disk configurations using different drive selections and RAID levels, using USB Boot media, removing all Fibre Channel and PCI NICs, removing and trying various memory configs (it has 256GB RAM).

Still being under warranty, I called Dell for assistance. Working with the first tech, I tried creating a boot CD with 2003 source files to include the PERC 6/i drivers using nLite. It was during this install attempt that I experienced the 34 minute hiccup. Actually my screen would freeze at 33 minutes with loss of mouse and keyboard on the Regional and Language settings menu. Working with a second tech the next day, within 15 minutes of the call, he found this post stating, “This is similar and appears to happen mainly to XP, but let’s give it a shot”.

In my case, when I opened the .inf log, the last entry was a wave.inf that installed successfully. However, as I worked my way up the log, I eventually found were “msports.inf” had failed. I navigated to the inf directory and via command line renamed this file to msports.zip. Rebooting and reinserting the 2003 boot CD media, it worked…successful install!

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:02:07 +0000

The restore console puts you at the DOS prompt, Joe. Whenever you see “C:>” (or anything else that ends in a greater-than sign) on a Windows machine, you are at the DOS prompt.

By: joe

joe — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:35:23 +0000

how do you get into DOS prompt? my computer says nothing about that when i boot it

By: sam

sam — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:21:50 +0000

ur a god, i was about 2 thro this god dam pc in the bin, took me ages to get the dos stuff working cuz i dnt know it well, but it worked!!! saved me ££££££ buying new gfx lol )) atiixpag.inf was the baddy lol xx

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:04:08 +0000

@Gopi K: To remove the “system32″, type “cd ..\inf” The whole thing should look like this:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ > cd ..\inf
C:\WINDOWS\inf >

Then type in your del command. Hope that helps.

By: Gopi K

Gopi K — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:41:29 +0000

I found that “C:\windows\inf\usbport.inf” is the faulty one. So i tried it to delete like “C:\windows\system32>del usbport.inf”. But the moment i hit the ENTER, it displayed that it is not found…
@SCAR, how did u delete the usbport.inf….
I’m unable to remove the “system32>” after “C:\windows”.
Please help me out, would be appreciated…

By: Scar

Scar — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:28:48 +0000

I deleted the usbport.inf via CD c:\windows\inf -> del usbport.inf and it worked, thx!

By: Doug K

Doug K — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:41:59 +0000

Thank you so much, this worked perfectly! Cheers! : )

By: andymaxi

andymaxi — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:01:19 +0000

oops i got that wrong it is ac97 you need,not ac3 sorry about that.
this is what i needed.
http://download.cnet.com/Realtek-AC97-Audio/3000-2110_4-103526.html
after u install if there is no sound you need to manually add the sound drivers as in the above comment.