> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

> > I have a Dell laptop that I just installed virtual PC.  I'm trying to
> > install
> > Windows XP SP2 on the virtual machine.  After it loads the drivers and
> > windows starts my laptop reboots.  So can't install XP.

> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

> Firstly, are you absolutely sure that you're installing XP in a virtual
> machine and not, unfortunately, on the host by mistake...?

> How much RAM did you allocate to the new virtual machine...?

> --
> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVP
> http://www.markrae.net

>It is definitely installing on the virtual machine.  In the Virtual PC 2007
>window I see the drivers load fine, but when it gets to "windows starting"
>the laptop reboots.

>I used the default settings during the wizard to configure the VM except I
>only allocated 30Gb for the virtual Hard drive.  The RAM I did not change so
>it is set to 128Mb.  

>I've tried removing and creating another VM and each time when it's
>installing XP and it gets to "starting windows" ...reboot of the laptop.

> >Hi Mark,

> >It is definitely installing on the virtual machine.  In the Virtual PC 2007
> >window I see the drivers load fine, but when it gets to "windows starting"
> >the laptop reboots.

> >I used the default settings during the wizard to configure the VM except I
> >only allocated 30Gb for the virtual Hard drive.  The RAM I did not change so
> >it is set to 128Mb.  

> >I've tried removing and creating another VM and each time when it's
> >installing XP and it gets to "starting windows" ...reboot of the laptop.

> Give this a try, disable HW Virtualization in VPC and see if that
> works.  If it does, then its likely the BIOS implementation of HWV is
> bad and look for a BIOS update for your MB.

> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/