Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Dell 9100 Loading XP Pro from CD PCI.SYS Error

Issue: 
Error or blue screen on PCI.SYS when loading OS or XP Pro CD cannot see a bootable device or partition.

Requirements:
• Download Dell driver for RAID controller.
• Slipstreamed CD with SP2 (Without this you will never boot the SP2 drivers are needed.)
• USB Floppy Disk (Could not figure out how to get USB stick working)
• Change BIOS RAID to Combination not AHCI.

Notes:

• Hit F2 on boot and change BIOS RAID configuration to Combination.
• In BIOS allow USB floppy.
• Create XP CD with SP2.
• Download SATA drivers from Dell site using your service tag.
• Create Floppy with (82801GR/GH SATA AHCI ICH7R/DH) RAID drivers
• When booting with XP Pro CD hit F6
• Hit S to specify a different driver select AHCI it will load the IASTOP.SYS file.
• Your done you can normally load XP Pro.

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