Re: Windows XP startup

'Sailor' wrote, in part:
| Thanks for your reply. I only have 256mb of RAM right now.
| I bought a 256mb stick on ebay but it isn't recognized by the
| system. Can't understand why unless it was DOA. The system
| hangs and won't even start! The computer works fine with either
| or both of the 128 sticks I now have after I do get it started with
| the method I mentioned earlier.
..
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Thanks for your follow-up post. I'll have to think about the new
information for a while, and will post again when I have more to offer. It
will probably be a list of questions.

For now,
* not all memory that fits in a motherboard slot is compatible.

* 256 MBytes of memory which you have as two 128 MByte sticks is not a
limitation on whether Windows XP boots or not, but is a limitation on
performance. You might want to disable as many startup tasks as possible
and see if that helps.

* You might try starting with a log file enabled to find out the last
successful step before starting Windows XP hangs.

* Your secondary hard drive formatted as FAT32 should have no effect on
startup, but FAT32 is not as secure and robust file system as NTFS.



Phil Weldon


"Sailor" <Sailor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Thanks for your reply. I only have 256mb of RAM right now.
| I bought a 256mb stick on ebay but it isn't recognized by the
| system. Can't understand why unless it was DOA. The system
| hangs and won't even start! The computer works fine with either
| or both of the 128 sticks I now have after I do get it started with the
| method I mentioned earlier. Does RAM have anything to do with
| my weird start up? As for the OS it has SP2. The HDD is 20gig
| with 14 gig free. BTW I installed a second HDD of 10MB before
| I installed XP. I converted drive C: (the main) to NTSC but left the
| 10gb one at FAT32. Could that have any effect on my problem?
| The funny thing is as I described earlier, the start up hangs on initial
| start BUT it does start when I restart using the "normal" start up
| method from the text screen.


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