Help With Network Startup Error 203

[Bat Rastard]

it's a Acer Aspire X1200 with AMD Athlon 64 dual core running Vista,it's not strong enough for 7,if i try to install XP it gives a BSOD,

That's because Acer's engineers are as useless as a pair of nipples on a breast plate. The BIOS brute forces the SATA ports to AHCI. Period. No option at all to set it to emulated IDE mode. That means installing WinXP requires having the nVidia SATA RAID drivers on a floppy (or integrated into a slipstreamed ISO using nLite). However, you also need to integrate the right RealTek LAN drivers as well in order avoid an infinite BSOD loop upon the first reboot of a successful XP installation. But I say if you're gonna go through all that trouble, you might as well just slipstream SP1 onto an All-in-One Windows7 iso, disable Aero, and be done with it. I don't see how a dual-core Athlon 64 is too slow for 7 considering I've stuffed the 32-bit flavor of 7 on single core AMD/Intel boxes with just 1GB of RAM more times than I care to remember ... and that's like running XP with a half-gig of RAM or less ...

[47iscool]

I Tried To Install It But,7 Said My PC Isn't strong Enough & Wouldn't
Install It,It Has 3GB of RAM and it runs at 2.10 GHZ,It is A 64-bit
processor,but it's only 32-bit,I Heard That I Could Update The BIOS
But,But People Recommended It If The BIOS Had Problems,The BIOS Is A
Phoenix Award Winning Workstation,The Only Way I Can Run XP Or 7 Is To
Use Virtual Box,Or I Can Install Ubuntu Alongside Vista As A Second
Option,I Can't Buy The Crossover Cables Because I'm Saving Up For A
Decent HDD My Current One Is Failing,It's A Western Digital,I Think
It's Failing Because The Way It Was Manufactured,The DVD Drive
Sits Almost Directly On Top Of The HDD Adding Too Much Heat.
Does nlite need an ISO,or should i extract,insert,rebuild.

[SP193]

I Tried To Install It But,7 Said My PC Isn't strong Enough & Wouldn't
Install It,It Has 3GB of RAM and it runs at 2.10 GHZ,It is A 64-bit
processor,but it's only 32-bit,I Heard That I Could Update The BIOS
But,But People Recommended It If The BIOS Had Problems,The BIOS Is A
Phoenix Award Winning Workstation,The Only Way I Can Run XP Or 7 Is To
Use Virtual Box,Or I Can Install Ubuntu Alongside Vista As A Second
Option,I Can't Buy The Crossover Cables Because I'm Saving Up For A
Decent HDD My Current One Is Failing,It's A Western Digital,I Think
It's Failing Because The Way It Was Manufactured,The DVD Drive
Sits Almost Directly On Top Of The HDD Adding Too Much Heat.
Does nlite need an ISO,or should i extract,insert,rebuild.

You got to be kidding me.

My father's Dell Dimension E520 was running Windows 7 for about 2 years before it had to be retired due to hardware problems, and it had an Intel Pentium D CPU (3.0GHz, 667MHz FSB, 3GB DDR RAM)! D:
And it ran with the Aero interface enabled.

If your PC can run Windows Vista, it can run Windows 7... since Vista seems heavier than Windows 7 in my opionion.

But anyway, why do you need to change your OS to Windows 7? :S

If you got an error right away during install, it's probably not related to how strong or how insufficient your PC is...

[47iscool]

Honestly I Prefer XP,If Everything Goes Well With nLite,I'll Be Using XP Instead,
When I Tried To Install 7,It Tells Me My PC Is Has Insufficient Resources,You Wanted To
Know Why I Wanted To Switch? Everywhere I Go People Are Always Badmouthing Vista,
I've Had Plenty Of Problems With It, Mostly Due To Me Trying Figure It Out(My Fault,Messing With The Wrong Stuff)
Biggest Part Of The Problem Is My HDD It's Been Failing For About 3 Years But It Actually Still Works(Occasional BSOD)
BTW, Running 7 On VirtualBox Is VERY Slow.

[SP193]

Honestly I Prefer XP,If Everything Goes Well With nLite,I'll Be Using XP Instead,
When I Tried To Install 7,It Tells Me My PC Is Has Insufficient Resources,You Wanted To
Know Why I Wanted To Switch? Everywhere I Go People Are Always Badmouthing Vista,
I've Had Plenty Of Problems With It, Mostly Due To Me Trying Figure It Out(My Fault,Messing With The Wrong Stuff)
Biggest Part Of The Problem Is My HDD It's Been Failing For About 3 Years But It Actually Still Works(Occasional BSOD)
BTW, Running 7 On VirtualBox Is VERY Slow.

About BSODs: Well... you got an Acer. :S
From my own experience, Acers... break. D:

But at the end of the day, you must understand that using whatever that suits you best is most important. Vista is at least not like Windows Millennium was - it isn't a ticking time bomb which is ready to go off any time. (Yes, I once used Windows ME until it wouldn't even clear the Windows loading screen in both normal and safe modes - had to reinstall the whole thing, losing all my data in the process)

Of course running Windows 7 in a VM is slow. Running ANYTHING in a VM will be slower than it is on the real hardware.
(Even if you run Windows 95 in it - you're running an 18 year-old OS on a modern dual-core system! Even though Windows 95 would already run on a 66MHz 80486)

I used Windows 98 up to the end of my Pentium III PC's life - 2010. I originally didn't like how heavy Windows XP was, despite everybody saying that Windows 9x was slow and unreliable (There's some truth in that - but the truth is that all the crap is caused by Internet Explorer integration! ).

[RandQalan]

and you just stated why I have not updated to 7 or 8 or vista

To me it seam like the better supposed oS the more a resource hog it is

[Mr Edge]

No,can't right now,don't have the money yet,probably just going to stick with USB.

You don't have $4?

Amazon.com: Belkin CAT5E Crossover Cable 10 feet-Red: Electronics

[Northbear]

Since we are already a little offtopic from the initial question.
You are saying that your HDD is failing for a long time ... go to HDD Regenerator - Dmitriy Primochenko Online scroll down and get the free demo. it will scan your harddrive for errors this may help you to spot another issue which causing your BSOD problems.

You may also check your disk with Chrystal Disk Info or HD Tune 5 Trial to see it's health status.

Your HDD is a Western Digital right ? Which one exactly ?

[47iscool]

WDC WD32 00AAJS-22B4A SCSI Disk Device
When I Used Ubuntu,It Said A Hard Disk May Be Failing,
I Know It Is Because Recently I've Been Hearing Clicking Noises,And Seeing An Occasional BSOD

HD Tune Says
Reallocated Sector Count :Failed
Current Pending Sector: Warning

I Was Able To Get Nlite To Slipstream The Correct Drivers & Everything,SATA,LAN & WLAN,
But Still BSOD The BIOS Doesn't Have A "Compatibility Mode" Like Other PC's,To Use Emulated IDE,
Even With The SATA Drivers BSOD,This PC Refuses An XP Install,Sadly.

As For "Mr Edge's" Question I Didn't Know Crossover Cable Were That Cheap,
In Fact I Have 32$,But I'm Saving Every Penny For A New HDD,Can't Risk Not
Being Able To Use My PC,I Hate Being Stuck With Only Consoles,No Offense To Them,
But PC Is Just "It",I've Been Stuck With Only Using Consoles Before,It Wasn't Fun, Trying
To Use Wiixplorer To Manage Files,Isn't Good Because It Sometime Corrupts The SD/USB,
Although uLE Never Corrupted Anything With Me.

My PC Model: Acer Aspire X1200 B1601A (2008 Model), Windows XP Will NOT Install On This PC,I Have Looked Almost Everywhere For Help,Very Confused,

WDC WD32 00AAJS-22B4A SCSI Disk Device
When I Used Ubuntu,It Said A Hard Disk May Be Failing,
I Know It Is Because Recently I've Been Hearing Clicking Noises,And Seeing An Occasional BSOD

HD Tune Says
Reallocated Sector Count :Failed
Current Pending Sector: Warning

I Was Able To Get Nlite To Slipstream The Correct Drivers & Everything,SATA,LAN & WLAN,
But Still BSOD The BIOS Doesn't Have A "Compatibility Mode" Like Other PC's,To Use Emulated IDE,
Even With The SATA Drivers BSOD,This PC Refuses An XP Install,Sadly.

As For "Mr Edge's" Question I Didn't Know Crossover Cable Were That Cheap,
In Fact I Have 32$,But I'm Saving Every Penny For A New HDD,Can't Risk Not
Being Able To Use My PC,I Hate Being Stuck With Only Consoles,No Offense To Them,
But PC Is Just "It",I've Been Stuck With Only Using Consoles Before,It Wasn't Fun, Trying
To Use Wiixplorer To Manage Files,Isn't Good Because It Sometime Corrupts The SD/USB,
Although uLE Never Corrupted Anything With Me.

My PC Model: Acer Aspire X1200 B1601A (2008 Model), Windows XP Will NOT Install On This PC,I Have Looked Almost Everywhere For Help,Very Confused,

Okay Okay! I Got The Connection Working All I Did Was Make Sure That The PC & PS2 IP Address Matched,New Problem Vista Telling Me This:

Windows has detected an IP address conflict

Another computer on this network has the same IP address as this computer. Contact your
network administrator for help resolving this issue. More details are available in the Windows
System event log.

[Mr Edge]

Do I have this right? You connected a PS2 directly to a PC with a non-crossover cable and you gave both machines the same IP address and it actually worked?

If you can actually play games that way - and only that way - then just ignore the IP address conflict and you're good to go, I guess.

I'd be pretty surprised if a setup like that works with stability. But if it does, then pat yourself on the back for discovering a new networking paradigm.