Re: Upgrading an ME based HP Pavilion to XP
From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 02/14/04
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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:35:03 -0700
Greetings --
I've learned the hard way, over the years, that PCs designed for,
sold and run fine with Win9x/Me very often do not meet WinXP's much
more stringent hardware quality requirements. This is particularly
true of many models in Compaq's consumer-class Presario product line
or HP's consumer-class Pavilion product line. WinXP, like WinNT and
Win2K before it, is quite sensitive to borderline defective or
substandard hardware (particularly motherboards, RAM and hard drives)
that will still support Win9x.
What are some of the specific errors messages that appear during
the upgrade/installation attempts? Perhaps one or more of them might
shed some light on the possible problem?
Bruce Chambers
-- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "John Henderson" <fourstardave@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1025701c3f2fd$8fa07090$a001280a@phx.gbl... > 1. I have built/assembled 3 computers from scratch that > work wonderfully. > 2. The HP Pavilion model in question is an HP 8766c > w/1024 k memory and the latest 2.02 bios from HP. > 3. Got the CD from HP direct titled "Upgrading Pavilion > PC from Me to XP. > 4. NOTHINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG has worked beginning with f > disk, loading 98 the a new Me then try upgrade to XP. > Tried all versions of XP including Media edition. It will > simply not complete an upgrade giving all kinds of crazy > and different and inconsistent error messages as to why > it cannot complete the task. > 5. I was--amazingly--once able to get WIN 2000 on it and > it worked for over a year but when I tried to upgrade > from there it would not work then I wiped everything off > and started from scratch with Me on and nada. > 6. COMPUSA has unit now and they are all frustrated. > Cannot load XP either any version. They have checked all > the hardware and it is functioning fine; they even blew > everything off the drive, formatted and started from > scratch just as I did. > 7. HP has called me to say that sometimes it works > sometimes it doesn't and refunded my CD money for the > transition disk. > 9. I hate to throw away a 900 Pentium 3 machine away that > is otherwise perfectly sound but I want XP. > > CAN ANYBODY HELP????????????? > > I bet this is the tougest one on the board in a long time. > > Thanks in adavance, > John Henderson
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