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I always had a thing about my Packard Bell P3 600MHz. It runs perfectly with
Windows 98 & ME. Back in 2001 when I installed Windows 2000 it crashed. So I
reverted back to using ME.
Now I've installed Windows XP SP2 (streamline). The installation process was
a bit messy because I kept on getting "could not read file .... from CD-ROM:
Retry, Cancel, Ignore" messages. Retrying worked for most files but there was
one or two files that I had to ignore because the retry wasn't working. I
still got these messages even with 3 different CD-ROM drives.
In the end I restarted the whole entire installation by putting the HD in
another PC and installing WinXP from there. No problems. I put the HD back in
the Packard Bell and had to perform a "Repair Installation" to fix the
"hal.dll conflict / different MOBO drivers" to rebuild those files specific
to the changed hardware.
Windows XP SP2 seems to work fine. However I got 2 problems. I get random
crashing with the "blue-screen". Something about PC tried to access
inaccessible part of memory. Second problem is that sometimes explorer.exe
doesn't work and crashes from time to time.
I really don't know why I'm getting the "blue-screen". It does however
mention about hardware changes.
Possible things I should try:
1. http://www.memtest86.com/ RAM testing
2. sfc /scannow
3. BIOS upgrade (very hard since PC is totally unsupported)
4. Remove 128MB upgraded RAM leaving original 64MB
5. Get external CD-ROM drive, reinstall WinXPSP2.
6. Read up thoroughly on http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
I always had a thing about my Packard Bell P3 600MHz. It runs perfectly with
Windows 98 & ME. Back in 2001 when I installed Windows 2000 it crashed. So I
reverted back to using ME.
Now I've installed Windows XP SP2 (streamline). The installation process was
a bit messy because I kept on getting "could not read file .... from CD-ROM:
Retry, Cancel, Ignore" messages. Retrying worked for most files but there was
one or two files that I had to ignore because the retry wasn't working. I
still got these messages even with 3 different CD-ROM drives.
In the end I restarted the whole entire installation by putting the HD in
another PC and installing WinXP from there. No problems. I put the HD back in
the Packard Bell and had to perform a "Repair Installation" to fix the
"hal.dll conflict / different MOBO drivers" to rebuild those files specific
to the changed hardware.
Windows XP SP2 seems to work fine. However I got 2 problems. I get random
crashing with the "blue-screen". Something about PC tried to access
inaccessible part of memory. Second problem is that sometimes explorer.exe
doesn't work and crashes from time to time.
I really don't know why I'm getting the "blue-screen". It does however
mention about hardware changes.
Possible things I should try:
1. http://www.memtest86.com/ RAM testing
2. sfc /scannow
3. BIOS upgrade (very hard since PC is totally unsupported)
4. Remove 128MB upgraded RAM leaving original 64MB
5. Get external CD-ROM drive, reinstall WinXPSP2.
6. Read up thoroughly on http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm