Re: is this normal or possibly bad ram?

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No; you can install, without problems, its simply that only 137gb will be
recognised

"Sandeep Kulkarni" <sandeepnk84@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On May 23, 10:01 am, "Lil' Dave" <spamyours...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tell us what the jumper setting is at on the WD hard drive.
If the cdrom is on the same cable move it to the secondary, if ide.

Hope you got a new 80 wire ribbon cable for the WD hard drive, if ide.
Dave

"stiffman5000" <stiffman5...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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what i've changed is i got a new 160GB western digital drive, a new
CDrom
drive, and I bought a windows XP professional CD. I am trying to start
the
very basic procedures of installing windows, which first involves
formating
the new drive. During even this process, the computer will just shut
itself
off.

"sgopus" wrote:

if the only thing you have changed is the hd, I wouldn't suspect the
power
supply, nor RAM nor Motherboard. You only mentioned changing out the
HD,
so
what else did you change?

"stiffman5000" wrote:

when i boot the computer something in the initial screen says:
"memory
testing 983040K OK + 64M Shared Memory". I have about a GB of RAM.
Is
"64M
shared memory" a normal thing to appear, or could it mean that my
RAM
is bad
and maybe the computer isn't recognizing it?

FYI i am trying to install a fresh XP on a brand new drive, and the
computer
keeps shutting off unexpectedly. so i am trying to figure out if it
could be
bad motherboard, RAM, or power supply.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

One more thing you should know is you can not install Original Win XP
(w/o any SP) on 160 GB HDD.
Which version of XP you are using to install? You need the SP2 to
install it properly on 160 GB HDD.
Original XP supported drives only upto 137 GB. It can destroy your HDD
also.

Sandeep



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