Re: I just tried to install XP on an HP ME machine

Metspitzer wrote:
Mike Easter

The machine is an HP Pavilion and it came with ME. There is an option
in the bios that says 95, or 98 or other.

Should I use "other"

According to HP's specs, the 7940 'as is' is compatible with Win ME^1.

^1 http://peek.snipr.com/vknee HP Pavilion 7940 Desktop PC Product Specifications and What Ships in the Box - Supported operating systems (OS/NOS)- Microsoft (R) Windows Millennium Edition

However, HP provides a BIOS upgrade^2 which is compatible with XP and ME

^2 http://peek.snipr.com/vknfs HP Pavilion Cognac BIOS Update - File name: FresnoCognac_307.exe [1/1, 327.11k]
Released: 2002-01-24
Version: 3.07 9-17-01
Compatibility: Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows XP

Where did you get this XP disk? That is, what all does it say on the top?

The machine is an HP Pavilion 7940
Intel P3 1.0B GHz
40 G drive
128M ram

The guy I am trying to fix it for said he moved and can't find the
disks that came with the computer. He brought a back up XP disk that
he got from his brother.

Yabbut I wonder what /that/ (source 'back up') disk says on its top. There are all kinds of XP disks around. If a person is using a (some kind of a) 'bootleg' disk, it is important to use the right kind of bootleg disk, because if you try to use a bootleg disk of 'the wrong kind' it isn't going to work.

If I were going to install XP on a machine, I wouldn't make a bad choice about where I got my XP install disk.

When I turned on the machine, ME reported something like "seaching for
hardware" and would just hang.

Well, we/you don't have an ME disk for that machine, right?

I booted from the XP disk and got no warning that the machine didn't
meet the min requirements. It let me format the machine NTSF and
started installing.

I get.......Setup failed to install product catalogs

MS has something to say about that. kb 823303

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823303 “Failed To Install Product Catalog” Error Message When You Install Windows XP

Fatal error

Setup log files should contain more info

C:\Windows\system32\intpki.dll

mountmgrsys is corrupt.

My reading about that message suggests that is something that happens when you are trying to upgrade (such as ME), not install XP as a clean install.


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Mike Easter
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