Friend of mine who's using a BartPE disc I gave him (based on a XPSP2 VLK source), reports that certain AMD CPUs are blue screening before they finish booting. I'm waiting to hear from him w/ the CPUs that are having trouble w/ my disc, but in the meantime, I tried the same disc on an Athlon II 215-based system in my shop and sure enough, it blue screened.

I "suspect" that if there really is a problem, it may have something to do w/ newer AMD chips, bec one of my PCs (at home) has an AMD Duron which still boots my disc just fine (as of yesterday.)

Just wondering if this bit of bizarreness sounds familiar to anyone else ? Eventually, I plan to replace this XP-based platform w/ something else, till then I'm hoping I can get some pointers that will keep my current platform alive till I can migrate to a Server 2K3-based platform.

TIA....Jet

Hi jetman516

can you see any error messages (eg 0x00007b which indicates hard disk controller problem eg incompatible or no SATA/AHCI/RAID driver)
or just blue screen

I hope you have not added extra chipset or cpu drivers to your build or XP as there was a problem with some XP AMD based PC's which had registry entries for AMD & Intel cpu drivers (but no Intel cpu driver) and after upgrading to SP2 or SP3 they crashed as the Intel driver was installed by the service pack

regards
Mike Barnes

Mike: The only drivers I can think of adding have been from the DriverPacks.net mass storage plugin. However, I think I'll refresh my XPSP2 source from a pristine copy, just to be absolutely sure. Having said that, it could simply be that there are a few AMD chipsets which have zero support, for the moment. Or now that you're making me think about it, perhaps it's time to refresh the mass storage drivers.

IAC, these are worthwhile avenues to pursue. Thanx for the feedback....Jet

or try using xp + sp3 as the source. Also make sure you are using the latest storage drivers for your motherboard. That can make it difficult to have one CD that boots all MB that you use.