Question : Installation will be finished in 34 minutes...

I have a HP Pavilion 6470 where the OS was Windows 98 before I upgraded it to Windows PX. Because I gave it to a friend here in Brazil, I wanted to install the Windows XP in Portuguese and that’s when “disaster” happened. Everything was running ok and when it reached the point where it tells you in how many minutes the installation will be finished, reaching 34 to go, stopped installing. I tried several times and even did it using two different Windows XP CDs, tried again the English version, they both stopped at the same point (34 minutes to finish, that’s when it is installing devices).

In one of the tries it appeared:

                       INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing, status 18.
                           Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.

In other instance appeared:

                                     The file acpi.sys is corrupted.
                                        Press any key to continue.

Trying again it just stopped at the same 34 minutes dead point!!!

Any suggestion?

Answer : Installation will be finished in 34 minutes...

Sounds like a bios upgrade is required....

acpi.sys is required to interact with the system bios. The bios' firmware version does not seem to be up to supporting the XP version of ACPI.