More a Windows XP question than an Unattended specific one, but I really am
hoping someone has overcome this before 'cos I really am stuc.

We've been using Acer notebooks for a while and they recently changed their
range to include the ATi IGP9000 over the old intel 865M (or whatever it
was) and they just won't accept my Unattended installation I've been using
for months.  I get to the "installing drivers" bit of the GUI mode installer
and I'm BSODed with an 0xA5 ACPI NOT SUPPORTED error.  Clearly it's got to
be something to do with either the IGP or the updated Phoenix BIOS that
supports it.

I can perform a succesful install using regular media but I get an MPS
Unprocessor HAL, which is useless on a laptop.  Similarly, I can install
through Unattended if I specify Standard PC in HardwareType in unattend.txt,
but again, no ACPI kernel is no use on a laptop.

If I just use Acers preloaded XP (a sysprep job) then I get an ACPI
Uniprocessor PC HAL.  The version of the hal.dll (and ntoskrnl.exe) are
regular SP1 (5.1.2600.1106(xpsp1.020828-1920)), same as on my slipstreamed
SP1 distribution share.

I'm still guessing there's some kind of patching going on Acers build that I
can't see.  Does anybody have ANY advice for me?  I'm at me wits end!

Cheers,

Kev

PS. I tried using a slipstreamed SP2, sambe problem...



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