cant boot/reinstall?

[CharmPeddler]

hi guys, im trying to reinstall my cousins computer and when i start the machine with the xp disk in the drive i get this message:
" An unexpected error (528286608) occurred at
line 1768 in d:\xpclient\Base\Boot\Setuparcdisp.c.

Press any key to continue"

i there is no boot up at all with out the disk in the machine.

it is a HP pavilion: a1000y

i have tried two dif xp install disks, thinking i might have a bad one, but i get the same msg.

any ideas?

 

[PC eye]

Sounds like the optical drive at least needs a good lens cleaner if that isn't on the way out and no longer able to read disks. You can try swapping if not cleaning drives to see if that's where the problem is.

 

[CharmPeddler]

thanks for the reply. i'll pop in a dif reader.

BTW it is has a sata HDD(the very wide one, not the small red cable, its blue) and i have never reinstalled on a Sata. do i need to have a floppy and find some kind of drivers? OR is there some way i can bypass that with a modified version of the windows disk?

thanks again

 

[PC eye]

That would likely be a Sata I type drive if you see the standard 4 wire molex for power as well as the thin wide connector standard on Sata II drives. For reinstalling XP that will primarily depend on the board and Socket type since the new Intell 775s and AMD AM2s AM2+s simply see XP go right on while older boards often need a driver floppy or you wait until the second screen bypassing the F6 option to press the S for special devices and select the chipset.

I ran into that on a friend's Asus A8V board seeing a VIA chipset there where a driver floppy was useless and he actually borrowed an ide drive I had leftover from an older build. When he never cleaned the case and the drive cooked the Sata I was what I looked at then and saw XP go on with the press S option and selecting one of the VIA chipset items out of the nForce and others seen. XP saw the drive instantly.