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re: Question XP upgrade error message Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 5:43 pm Posted by Kakzozi (2 messages posted) I had a similar problem. Mine turned out to be the RAM. I had PC100 and PC133 mixed together. Win98 didnt care about that, and normally what happens is that the 133 RAM operates at the 100 RAM chip speed. After trying for 2 days I went away for the weeked. I came back, full of energy ready to install this sucker (not to mention I had to reformat, about 5 times, thinking that the problem lied elsewhere). Then I finally got the hint, and a half-ass Microsoft Knowledge Base article gave me the half-ass hint I needed, not a real one, just a partial one, in order for me to figure out the rest of it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Monday, November 19, 2001 at 12:35 am Posted by barry (1 messages posted) I have the same error, but it's not the memory. I don't know what it is, but I am stuck. B [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Saturday, December 29, 2001 at 7:16 am Posted by chris (1 messages posted) hi, i have the same problem. have you found the problem? chris On Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 8:34 am, Keith wrote: > > >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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Friday, January 4, 2002 at 8:20 pm Posted by Curtis Newton (1 messages posted) I had the exact same problem. Disabling APCI helped, but that got me to my next error (ntkernel error).....mine was a bad memory module. Hope this helps. Curt On Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 8:34 am, Keith wrote: > > >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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 12:19 pm Posted by Nelson (1 messages posted) I haven't checked my RAM yet but it's probably that. The problem definitely isn't with WinXP (at least in my case). I was running Linux RedHat 7.0 fine for a while on my computer and then it stopped booting. I kept getting an error when loading the kernel. I thought some file had gotten corrupt or something so I tried reinstalling, but I got the same error during installation. I tried Caldera, SuSE, Debian and had similar problems. I then tried WinXP and got the error in arcdisp.c. The summary is, in my case the problem wasn't WinXP but also several distributions of Linux so the problem is probably RAM (I haven't tried that yet). [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 9:26 pm Posted by Joe (5 messages posted) For that error, It was bad memory for me(I had a 64m stick that was registering as 32). I was trying to upgrade through windows. Inside window, it told me that it was a conflict between my video card and my motherboard. I tried various video cards and the MB is a gigabyte 7-xi. I had upgraded drivers and flashed bios to no avail. On Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 12:19 pm, Nelson wrote: >I haven't checked my RAM yet but it's probably that. The problem definitely isn't >with WinXP (at least in my case). I was running Linux RedHat 7.0 fine for a while >on my computer and then it stopped booting. I kept getting an error when loading >the kernel. I thought some file had gotten corrupt or something so I tried reinstalling, >but I got the same error during installation. I tried Caldera, SuSE, Debian and >had similar problems. I then tried WinXP and got the error in arcdisp.c. > >The summary is, in my case the problem wasn't WinXP but also several distributions >of Linux so the problem is probably RAM (I haven't tried that yet). [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 6:27 am Posted by jonathan Reed (4 messages posted) For windows XP install error message unexpected error in xpclient\base\boot\setup\arcdisp.c I have just read the reply, and changed my single (128 meg) PC100 stick of ram for a single (128 meg) PC133 stick and it immediatly solved the issue. Thanks guys. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 4:17 pm Posted by John Buckley (1 messages posted) I keep getting the same response you did, and right now it looks like RAM. They say one of the modules is bad. But I've removed the stick of memory and put it in the second slot, and the same erroe message is displayed. Are both of my slots bad. I have a 133chip speed. How do you figure out if it is operating at 100chip speed, and how do you fix it. This error is driving me nuts. Thanks, John On Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 5:43 pm, Kakzozi wrote: >I had a similar problem. Mine turned out to be the RAM. I had PC100 and PC133 mixed >together. Win98 didnt care about that, and normally what happens is that the 133 >RAM operates at the 100 RAM chip speed. >After trying for 2 days I went away for the weeked. I came back, full of energy ready >to install this sucker (not to mention I had to reformat, about 5 times, thinking >that the problem lied elsewhere). Then I finally got the hint, and a half-ass Microsoft >Knowledge Base article gave me the half-ass hint I needed, not a real one, just a >partial one, in order for me to figure out the rest of it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Friday, February 7, 2003 at 12:51 am Posted by Billy (5 messages posted) You know it is typical for a Ms OS to be so picky, why say error message ..... etc and just say you memory is bad, I had this problem too and low and behold , memory was the cause. Nice to there is hope after microsoft, p.s. I called thier help centre who told me that the error message was undocumented. YES whatever. Thanks Billy [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 5:44 am Posted by Tom (1 messages posted) I had same error trying to do a clean intall booting from cd. found this fourm and saw memory problems. All my stuff here brand new, so I thought how could it be new memory? But sure enough, I removed the 2 sticks of 512mb ddr and put in a different 512mb stick and no more error. now to figure out why memory causing problems, but atleast the error gone and have this problem pinpointed. Thanks for posting here, saved me some time from doing process of elimination. Tom On Friday, February 7, 2003 at 12:51 am, Billy wrote: >You know it is typical for a Ms OS to be so picky, why say error message ..... etc >and just say you memory is bad, I had this problem too and low and behold , memory >was the cause. Nice to there is hope after microsoft, p.s. I called thier help centre >who told me that the error message was undocumented. YES whatever. > >Thanks > >Billy [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Monday, February 17, 2003 at 3:53 am Posted by Billy (5 messages posted) Hey Tom, I looked a bit further into it I found the problem to be the memory spec e.g I was using pc100 when I found the problem and changed to pc133 and it worked beutifully I do however not know if this was related or if it was just the way I followed it through. Perhaps you can have a look and see if your memory is the the same. Billy On Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 5:44 am, Tom wrote: >I had same error trying to do a clean intall booting from cd. found this fourm and >saw memory problems. >All my stuff here brand new, so I thought how could it be new memory? But sure enough, >I removed the 2 sticks of 512mb ddr and put in a different 512mb stick and no more >error. now to figure out why memory causing problems, but atleast the error gone >and have this problem pinpointed. Thanks for posting here, saved me some time from >doing process of elimination. Tom > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 3:36 pm Posted by Daniel (1 messages posted) Reply to On Monday, February 17, 2003 at 3:53 am, Billy I had actual the same error message while trying to install XP. I solved it by taking the memory out and putting it back into the motherboard. I don't know why it worked but it may save you some money buying new RAM. Dan [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Saturday, April 5, 2003 at 7:46 am Posted by livingdead (3 messages posted) This error can also be cause by messing with the memory tmiings in the BIOS. Clear your BIOS or set it to default settings or optimal settings and reboot. Walaah! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 9:52 pm Posted by dan (1 messages posted) i removed and repalced the memory ( DDR 256 MB, PC 2100--- Repalced with DDR 256, PC 2700 ) and that fixed the problem, check the manufacturers specs AND IT IS ALL IN THE MEMORY On Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 8:34 am, Keith wrote: > > >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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question XP upgrade error message Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 7:15 am Posted by christopher leach (1 messages posted) yes i had this issue and decided to try what you guys suggested about the ram. it was definitely the ram. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum