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Question XP upgrade error message
Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 8:34 am
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Posted by Keith (2 messages posted)


Despite numerous attempts to install XP upgrade from W98SE it has either hung on commencing setup or produced the following message shortly after commencing setup “an unexpected error (0) occurred at line 1768 in d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\arcdisp.c.” This is followed by the instruction to press any key to continue but this just reboots the PC and eventually takes you back to the above error message. Unable to find "arcdisp" anywhere on the system. Discussed with Microsoft support who suggested flashing the bios and removing all non essential hardware. Tried that but to no avail and Microsoft have now lost interest or have no answer. Has anyone out there seen a similar error message or could suggest possible ways forward


Responses to this message:
*re: Question XP upgrade error message (Kakzozi: Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 5:43 pm)
*re: Question XP upgrade error message (chris: Saturday, December 29, 2001 at 7:16 am)
*re: Question XP upgrade error message (Curtis Newton: Friday, January 4, 2002 at 8:20 pm)
*re: Question XP upgrade error message (Nelson: Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 12:19 pm)
*re: Question XP upgrade error message (dan: Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 9:52 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
- Question XP upgrade error message (Keith: Sat, Nov 17, 2001, 8:34 am)
-re: Question XP upgrade error message (Kakzozi: Sat, Nov 17, 2001, 5:43 pm)
*re: Question XP upgrade error message (barry: Mon, Nov 19, 2001, 12:35 am)
*re: Question XP upgrade error message (John Buckley: Sat, Jan 18, 2003, 4:17 pm)
*re: Question XP upgrade error message (chris: Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 7:16 am)
*re: Question XP upgrade error message (Curtis Newton: Fri, Jan 4, 2002, 8:20 pm)
-re: Question XP upgrade error message (Nelson: Sun, Jan 6, 2002, 12:19 pm)
*re: Question XP upgrade error message (Joe: Sun, Jan 6, 2002, 9:26 pm)
-re: Question XP upgrade error message (jonathan Reed: Thu, Jan 10, 2002, 6:27 am)
-re: Question XP upgrade error message (Billy: Fri, Feb 7, 2003, 12:51 am)
-re: Question XP upgrade error message (Tom: Sun, Feb 16, 2003, 5:44 am)
-re: Question XP upgrade error message (Billy: Mon, Feb 17, 2003, 3:53 am)
-re: Question XP upgrade error message (Daniel : Tue, Feb 18, 2003, 3:36 pm)
*re: Question XP upgrade error message (livingdead: Sat, Apr 5, 2003, 7:46 am)
*re: Question XP upgrade error message (dan: Sat, Nov 13, 2004, 9:52 pm)
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