upgrade from xp home to xp pro

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I'm trying to upgrade from home to pro - but after it
checks the hardware configuration (and says its ok) it
goes to restart, and either freezes or a blue screen
(with writing) flashes and it restarts again.

I'm afraid I'm going to crash the whole thing. xp Home
works fine except for some occasional freezing, but I
thought pro may take care of it.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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As I stated - the blue screen 'flashes' there's no time
to read what's on it. Sorry.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi
>
>Could please post 'the writing'. Someone then will be
able to help you.
>
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>Will Denny
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>"Becky Rush" <rsrush@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> I'm trying to upgrade from home to pro - but after it
>> checks the hardware configuration (and says its ok) it
>> goes to restart, and either freezes or a blue screen
>> (with writing) flashes and it restarts again.
>>
>> I'm afraid I'm going to crash the whole thing. xp Home
>> works fine except for some occasional freezing, but I
>> thought pro may take care of it.
>>
>> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
>
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Becky Rush wrote:
> What do you mean? hardware problems? I'm just not sure
> how to narrow down what's actually causing the problem.

Pro will not help your problems, go to Computer Management, Event Viewer and
look for errors. You can click on the error and look at the error message.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> forget it...Home is fine...you have other probs there...not XP...
>>
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>>
>>
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"Becky Rush" <rsrush@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I did get some info:
>
> Driver IRQL not less or equal
>
> Can you help me with this? Thanks in advance.

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ [...] s/6077.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314063
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316208
Computer Restarts After You Quickly Insert and Remove a PC Card
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=816500

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