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01-21-2004, 11:17 PM
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Installing Windows XP
Can somebody please help me? I have a laptop which had windows 98se installed on it. Recently I tried to update to XP Pro, it went into autorun and started to install, about half-way through my computer restarted and then a screen came up and said that " Windows NT has found 0k of low memory. Windows NT needs 512k of low memory".
I have tried everything from formatting the hdd to updating my bios and i can't figure it out. --my computer has-- 6gb hard drive 256mb of ram amd k-6 475 processor somebody please help me! |
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01-21-2004, 11:23 PM
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kinda sounds like that system does not have the minium requirements for xp
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01-21-2004, 11:30 PM
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yeah, it meets the requirements. that was one of the first things I made sure of.
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01-21-2004, 11:36 PM
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ok
what brand and model laptop is it ? and don't tell me compaq |
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01-21-2004, 11:38 PM
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lol,
yeah it is a compaq prosignia 150, do you know what my problem is? |
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01-21-2004, 11:41 PM
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well thats the problem
they keep the bios settings on a hidden partition of the hard drive and all the drivers for the motherboard too. so as far as xp can tell, there is no ram at all. I would be willing to bet that unless you have the recover cd for that system, you will not be able to reinstall w98 and have everything working again. I tride that many years ago, ran into the same problem and had to take it to a compaq repaire center to get it back to the orignal condition Last edited by bailey; 01-21-2004 at 11:43 PM. |
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01-21-2004, 11:43 PM
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is there a way of getting it to work? any way at all?
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01-21-2004, 11:48 PM
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I think there is someone on here who is good with compaq and can help you better than I can.
you might try going to there web sight and see if there is any downloads there for that system |
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01-21-2004, 11:50 PM
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ok, my problem is different anyway. see i can reinstall 98 and it works just fine. the only thing that i cant install is any type of NT.
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01-21-2004, 11:56 PM
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ok, but fully install 98 and verify that all the drivers for everything is still there and working, then if all checks ok.
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01-22-2004, 02:08 AM
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Since you have formatted the drive, what happens when you try and boot off of the XP CD and do a fresh install? Does it give you the same error and if so at what point?
I have a Comcrap Presario 1200-XL106 w/AMD K6-2 475Mhz that originally came with 98SE. I just reformatted the drive and installed Win2K without a problem. I too, was worried about a hidden partition that held the BIOS, but I did an FDISK and never looked back.
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