problem with Dell Pentium II
From: Rick Lewis (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/08/04
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:06:08 -0800
I'll bet if you put a clean hard drive in that dell and
load 2K from scratch it will work just fine. Then you can
install the original hd and copy your data. The problem
could be because you upgraded your Me system. OS upgrades
never go well. Maybe one of the reasons MS stopped selling
upgrade versions.
Rick Lewis [MCP]
>-----Original Message-----
>I have an old Dell Pentium II/XPS 400 unit with 384 mg
ram and a 16 gig
>hard drive. After several years of being disgusted with
Windows ME, I
>upgraded to Win 2000 Pro using a FAT 32 partition. The
BIOS is the most
>up to date for the unit - Phoenix Bios 4.0, Release 6.0,
version A13.
>
>The system is a constant loop when setting up the
programs and files.
>It reboots itself and goes back to searching for
components, etc.
>
>Dell customer support (outsourced to India, of course)
says that the
>motherboard and bios can't handle Windows 2000, yet I
know people who have
>loaded it on similar machines. He also said the
motherboard won't
>recognize any drive larger than a 16 gig drive.
>
>Tell me if my plan is correct - I will load another drive
with a Win 98 OP
>system and hope it will read the current drive so I can
copy my data files.
>Should I remove the Windows 2000 op system?
>
>.
>
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