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  1. Sportsdad

    XP install problem

    I too was plaqued by similar problems in loading WinXP. After over 6 hours with Microsoft, they said I had a bad disk. I was running an ASUS A7v266-C with Athlon 1800XP+. 256MB DDR. I tried using both my CD-RW and my DVD burners. You won't guess what it was. A poor (not bad, it works fine...
  2. Sportsdad

    got a problem, not sure if it's motherboard or cpu

    Same thing happened with my new setup. Turns out the power supply was bad.....put in new one..same result. Seems I also got a bad stick of memory. Soon as that was replaced, everything started up right away. Before that change, the darn machine wouldn't even beep at startup. Even Kingston...
  3. Sportsdad

    WinME massive error messages

    Actually WinME didn't give me as much a problem as WinXP. I spent 8 hours on the phone over the weekend with Microdorks to no avail. WinXP just would not load. We tried everything including loading from a flat. At first I thought it might be an incompatibility between the MB and the video...
  4. Sportsdad

    ddr memory compatibility

    After spending hours trying everything to get either WinXP or WinME to load, I think that my frugalness.....read cheap...on buying a 256MB DDR PC2100 stick is coming back to haunt me. Is there a brand that works better or best with an Asus board/Athlon 1800+XP cpu combination? Also, is PC2700...
  5. Sportsdad

    WinME massive error messages

    I have tried numerous installs of WinME and it always seems to have problems. After finally getting it installed, I get error messages about Rundll or Kernal32 or any number of items when I try to do anything. I finally wrote zeros to my hard drive (6 hours for an 80Gb) and want to try again...

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