going back winxp pro issue pci sys

Greetings all:
Well here is trhe issue, I did install Vista and love it however I am going to move it to a new box I have for more testing so I did reformat using the Vista command line (which very cool by the way). All went great but when attempting to load WinXP I get "Err pci.sys" stop code and that's as far as I have gotten to date.
Please any help from all of you great ones...!
Thankx - Milton

UBU--
1) XP not on box to begin with? You installed Vista (newest flavor of OS first? 2) Was XP ever on the box? I guess not. 3) You have new box. What are you planning to put on new box? 4) You formatted Vista on old box or new box--where and what did you formatand cannot install XP on old box or new box? 5) You are attempting to load XP first on new box then run Vista setup from XP to make dual boot?
***Can you post explicitly what you have on what box> what steps you took> where XP has setup error?


"ubuibeme" wrote in message

Greetings all:
Well here is trhe issue, I did install Vista and love it however I am going to move it to a new box I have for more testing so I did reformat using the Vista command line (which very cool by the way). All went great but when attempting to load WinXP I get "Err pci.sys" stop code and that's as far as I have gotten to date.
Please any help from all of you great ones...!
Thankx - Milton

I don't think you can reformat the system drive that Vista was installed on with Vista. Try using a third party partition manager to format the drive again. Ranish comes highly recommended.
-- Mark
My favourite so far: Unknown device has been correctly installed.
"ubuibeme" wrote in message

Greetings all:
Well here is trhe issue, I did install Vista and love it however I am going to move it to a new box I have for more testing so I did reformat using the Vista command line (which very cool by the way). All went great but when attempting to load WinXP I get "Err pci.sys" stop code and that's as far as I have gotten to date.
Please any help from all of you great ones...!
Thankx - Milton

UBU--
Make sure on new box to install XP first (always oldest OS first if you plan a dual or multi boot).
CH
"ubuibeme" wrote in message

Greetings all:
Well here is trhe issue, I did install Vista and love it however I am going to move it to a new box I have for more testing so I did reformat using the Vista command line (which very cool by the way). All went great but when attempting to load WinXP I get "Err pci.sys" stop code and that's as far as I have gotten to date.
Please any help from all of you great ones...!
Thankx - Milton

Hello,
Thank you for the reply, I have a new build Intel box with P4 CPU and PCI Express Geforce 7600 GS 256 Mb Graphics card, 2 BG DDR2, and I use it mostly to play "Computer GOD", Testing Software, Running anything new but it is mostly a backup box for my business which I don't mind "Blowing up" from time to time.
I do have another box about the same type and spec's which want to re-locate Vista to so I can follow the OS as it makes it's way to final. On this one I have no OS installed, and on the with Vista on it now was a "Clean install" from a WinXP Pro; I did a complete reformat and then installed Vista on the 100 GB SATA drive NTFS...
All would like to do is go back to WinXP on the box running Vista and re-locate Vista, Should no probelm; I reformat using the Maxtor CD I have for the drive. but in the reload of XP I get the Bue screen and the stop code ... Blah, Blah, Blah... PCI.Sys... and the reload stops
I hope this helps, and I hope that someone... Greater than I can help.....
Thankx, - Milton
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

I don't think you can reformat the system drive that Vista was installed on with Vista. Try using a third party partition manager to format the drive again. Ranish comes highly recommended.
-- Mark
My favourite so far: Unknown device has been correctly installed.
"ubuibeme" wrote in message Greetings all:
Well here is trhe issue, I did install Vista and love it however I am going to move it to a new box I have for more testing so I did reformat using the Vista command line (which very cool by the way). All went great but when attempting to load WinXP I get "Err pci.sys" stop code and that's as far as I have gotten to date.
Please any help from all of you great ones...!
Thankx - Milton

Hello,
Thank you for the reply, I have a new build Intel box with P4 CPU and PCI Express Geforce 7600 GS 256 Mb Graphics card, 2 BG DDR2, and I use it mostly to play "Computer GOD", Testing Software, Running anything new but it is mostly a backup box for my business which I don't mind "Blowing up" from time to time.
I do have another box about the same type and spec's which want to re-locate Vista to so I can follow the OS as it makes it's way to final. On this one I have no OS installed, and on the with Vista on it now was a "Clean install" from a WinXP Pro; I did a complete reformat and then installed Vista on the 100 GB SATA drive NTFS...
All would like to do is go back to WinXP on the box running Vista and re-locate Vista, Should no probelm; I reformat using the Maxtor CD I have for the drive. but in the reload of XP I get the Bue screen and the stop code ... Blah, Blah, Blah... PCI.Sys... and the reload stops
I hope this helps, and I hope that someone... Greater than I can help.....
Thankx, - Milton
"CH" wrote:

UBU--
1) XP not on box to begin with? You installed Vista (newest flavor of OS first? 2) Was XP ever on the box? I guess not. 3) You have new box. What are you planning to put on new box? 4) You formatted Vista on old box or new box--where and what did you formatand cannot install XP on old box or new box? 5) You are attempting to load XP first on new box then run Vista setup from XP to make dual boot?
***Can you post explicitly what you have on what box> what steps you took where XP has setup error?


"ubuibeme" wrote in message Greetings all:
Well here is trhe issue, I did install Vista and love it however I am going to move it to a new box I have for more testing so I did reformat using the Vista command line (which very cool by the way). All went great but when attempting to load WinXP I get "Err pci.sys" stop code and that's as far as I have gotten to date.
Please any help from all of you great ones...!
Thankx - Milton

Are you trying to apply ghosted images or are you trying to re-install? "Load" can mean many things to many people...
-- Mark
My favourite so far: Unknown device has been correctly installed.
"ubuibeme" wrote in message

Hello,
Thank you for the reply, I have a new build Intel box with P4 CPU and PCI Express Geforce 7600 GS 256 Mb Graphics card, 2 BG DDR2, and I use it mostly to play "Computer GOD", Testing Software, Running anything new but it is mostly a backup box for my business which I don't mind "Blowing up" from time to time.
I do have another box about the same type and spec's which want to re-locate Vista to so I can follow the OS as it makes it's way to final. On this one I have no OS installed, and on the with Vista on it now was a "Clean install" from a WinXP Pro; I did a complete reformat and then installed Vista on the 100 GB SATA drive NTFS...
All would like to do is go back to WinXP on the box running Vista and re-locate Vista, Should no probelm; I reformat using the Maxtor CD I have for the drive. but in the reload of XP I get the Bue screen and the stop code ... Blah, Blah, Blah... PCI.Sys... and the reload stops
I hope this helps, and I hope that someone... Greater than I can help.....
Thankx, - Milton
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:
I don't think you can reformat the system drive that Vista was installed on with Vista. Try using a third party partition manager to format the drive again. Ranish comes highly recommended.
-- Mark
My favourite so far: Unknown device has been correctly installed.
"ubuibeme" wrote in message Greetings all:
Well here is trhe issue, I did install Vista and love it however I am going to move it to a new box I have for more testing so I did reformat using the Vista command line (which very cool by the way). All went great but when attempting to load WinXP I get "Err pci.sys" stop code and that's as far as I have gotten to date.
Please any help from all of you great ones...!
Thankx - Milton