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Old 10-07-2006
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Originally Posted by rayferns View Post
I gave up with the Compaq PII PC, I have been trying to install Vista on another machine:

Dell Optiplex GX1

Pentium III 500MHz, 256MB RAM, previous OS- RedHat 9.0

I get a different error message whilst booting from the Vista DVD.

A ‘Windows Boot Manager’ screen appears with some text saying.

“Status: 0xc0140019

Info: Windows failed to load because the ACPI firmware (BIOS) RSDP Table is invalid”

I did a search on google for the status number and found this.

Windows Vista does not support Compaq Presario BIOS - MSDN Forums

Last test would be installing Windows XP Pro SP2 and see if Vista can be installed on top of WinXP Pro. If this does not work, then I will have to install Vista on another Dell machine.

Ray
The systems that you are trying to install Vista on don't seem to meet the minimum requirements for running the OS. You need at least a 800Mhz machine with 512Mb RAM to run Vista. the errors that you are coming up with seem to be a conflict with how you BIOS is handling the system bus (front & back), in addition to how the Processor address your RAM. you should get a P4(intel), Duron-800MHz(amd), or better to handle the data throughput that Vista wants to accomplish.
Reference: Windows Vista Capable and Premium Ready PCs
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