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More info?)
To be honest, I was hoping there was an issue that was corrected with a BIOS
update or something. You might be right about the memory and was wondering
what program is being used these days to do memory checks. I have a 350
watt power supply and was wondering if that may be an issue also, but in
bare bones mode, it shouldn't. I'll download a memory checker and see.
John
"Peter R. Fletcher" <noreply@fletchers-uk.com> wrote in message
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>I have two A7N8X Deluxe systems running very happily with
> (respectively) XPPro and XP Home. The only problems I had with
> installation was needing to find and load the SATA drivers at the
> beginning of the installation on the one with SATA drives. I have
> found that XP is much less forgiving of bad memory (particularly high
> memory) than the older MS OSes, so I wonder if you have memory
> problems - I would run a memory test for a few cycles to check on
> this. The only other obvious suspect would be your video card causing
> problems when its "real" drivers are enabled - do you have access to a
> different one that you could try? What is the "hardware error" that
> you get?
>
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:41:13 GMT, "Draggonfodder"
> <commojohn@braemarnet.com> wrote:
>
>>I have an A7N8X with AMD3000+ 1Gig 3200 ram and Nvidia5500. Runs very
>>nicely with Windows Me... I am trying to install XPpro and after
>>installaling all files and it reboots I get a hardware error and it hangs
>>without even attempting to boot into xppro. I reinstall WinMe and all is
>>well.. Is there a problem with A7N8X and xp that I need to be aware of.
>>I
>>have uninstalled everything so it is a bare bones install and still the
>>same. Won't even attempt to boot into xppro....
>>
>>John
>>
>
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> Peter R. Fletcher
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