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This is actually quite possibly the reason for my initial problem. Anyway, after a few trials and errors I finally got the installation to work & properly activated, and now I'm working on my newly nLited XP. Thanks for the help!

Thanks for the comments. I hadn't tried a virtual install before, but now I installed MS Virtual PC 2007 and the problem was fully reproducible there. However I did like untermensch and redid the ISO with almost no changes. And this time it works! Or works until it comes to the point where it asks a serial, because apparently it doesn't accept my OEM serial for Virtual PC. But I guess I'm now confident in trying this ISO on my laptop as a real installation. Maybe this was a nLite bug? I have to take this virtual installation thing as a habit before installing for real, will save some time and headaches for sure. Which one of those three you mentioned - VirtualPC, VirtualBox or VMware Server - is recommended? Would any of them allow installing an OEM XP? Thanks!

Hmm that's interesting. Are you having the exact same problem, with the restart happening at the same stage of the installation and with the same error message? What kind of things have you done with nLite? Do you have any suspicion what settings could cause this? Actually, could you post your nLite session .ini file, so that I can compare the similarities between our settings? By the way, are you installing on a laptop or a desktop? In any case I guess it's reasonable safe to conclude that since we are both bumping into this problem, it's something we've done in nLite, rather than a hardware/BIOS/whatever issue. However, since at least in my case the installation get's stuck so early (the actual installation just barely starting), I think most nLite settings shouldn't have an effect so early on... At least I'd assume that the component/service removals wouldn't have an effect so early on, do you agree with me? Similarly the tweaks and patches seem like something that are applied at the last stage of the installation... So maybe it's something in the 'unattended' -page?

Hello all! I already posted this in the nLite forum, but I then realized that this problem has possible nothing to do with nLite. Sorry about that. Could some moderator delete the other thread? So, I've been trying to reinstall XP with my newly created SP3-slipstreamed and junk-reduced installation disc. Installation goes normally so far that I've partitioned my hard drives, chosen where to install XP and system has copied the installation files to HD. Then installation enters the stage with light-blue background, mouse cursor appears and *boom* computer restarts. After a while I get a message like "Continuing Windows XP installation.....", mouse cursor appears and the same happens. Again and again. Usually it doesn't give an error message before it happens, but sometimes a message flashes quickly on the screen before the reboot: "Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API". I'm doing this installation on an Asus M6VA laptop. Because the computer itself comes only with recovery discs, I've used this method to activate a retail hologram XP Pro CD with my product key. I've used the exact same method before and it has worked without any problems. Then the cd has gone through semi-heavy nLiting: I've slipstreamed SP3 and post-sp3 hotfixes and done a lot of removing and tweaking. See the attached .ini file for exact details, quoting it here would make this thread difficult to read. I then tried installing XP from my recovery discs. This worked without any troubles, so I guess it's unlikely this would be a hardware issue? I'm only moderately Windows and nLite literate so I have no idea what could cause this problem. If you need more info pleace ask. Any help is greatly appreciated! Last_Session_debug.txt

So, I've been trying to reinstall XP with my newly created SP3-slipstreamed and junk-reduced installation disc. Installation goes normally so far that I've partitioned my hard drives, chosen where to install XP and system has copied the installation files to HD. Then installation enters the stage with light-blue background, mouse cursor appears and *boom* computer restarts. After a while I get a message like "Continuing Windows XP installation.....", mouse cursor appears and the same happens. Again and again. Usually it doesn't give an error message before it happens, but sometimes a message flashes quickly on the screen before the reboot: "Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API". I'm doing this installation on an Asus M6VA laptop. Because the computer itself comes only with recovery discs, I've used this method to activate a retail hologram XP Pro CD with my product key. I've used the exact same method before and it has worked without any problems. Then the cd has gone through semi-heavy nLiting: I've slipstreamed SP3 and post-sp3 hotfixes and done a lot of removing and tweaking. See the attached .ini file for exact details, quoting it here would make this thread unreadable. I then tried installing XP from my recovery discs. This worked without any troubles, so it's unlikely that this would be a hardware issue. I'm only moderately Windows and nLite literate so I have no idea what could cause this problem. Any help is greatly appreciated! Last_Session___FINAL.ini