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  1. milodunbar

    How can I boot my Windows XP (hard drive) from Floppy?

    Something uncanny has made my hard drive unbootable. I have a 800mhz Athelon, 1gb RAM, and Maxtor drives. Strange: I can bootup into CD-based Windows Setup, and I can reLOAD Windows onto the boot drive----until Setup wants to "reboot your computer". After many days of struggle, I...
  2. milodunbar

    Memory Expansion

    Thanks Berton. Looks like a good place. However, BEFORE I buy an update, I sure would like to know if the update will enable a LARGER RAM memory. That is NOT listed as a benefit at http://www.unicore.com/biosupgrades/why.cfm
  3. milodunbar

    Memory Expansion

    Mike, are you saying that the limitation IS imposed by the BIOS? I don't want to buy a new BIOS if it will NOT free me of the memory limitation.
  4. milodunbar

    Memory Expansion

    My 2-year-old computer will not accept 512mb SDRAM DIMMs. SDRAM is not the problem. Rather, it is the size. Max acceptable DIMM size is 128mb. QUESTION: Is this memory limitation imposed by the Phoenix BIOS, or the 440BX chipset, or something else on the motherboard? Thanks for any help.

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