Hope this belongs here and not in the Win 98 forum.
I'm trying to upgrade an HP Pavilion which originally shipped with 98SE to Win 2K. I chose Win 2K and not XP because I don't think it has the resources to handle XP. It's a P III @ 533 MHz with 384 Mb system RAM and a 20 Gb drive. Windows is controlling the swap file and I've tried removing all running programs except Explorer & Systray. I did consider manually setting the swap file Min/Max, but haven't tried that yet. I'm trying to avoid doing a format and clean install in order to salvage as many programs and data as possible, even though I know a format and clean install would be better; but if that's what I have to do, I'll do it.
The problem I'm having is that I have run into an invalid page fault with every attempt at the upgrade. Winnt32 is causing the fault in Kernel 32 at 017f:bff88396. All the searching I've done on this fault seems to indicate that this could be a failed read attempt caused possibly by bad RAM. The RAM seems to check out OK, so I'm at a loss as to how to solve the problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated. T.I.A.
I'm trying to upgrade an HP Pavilion which originally shipped with 98SE to Win 2K. I chose Win 2K and not XP because I don't think it has the resources to handle XP. It's a P III @ 533 MHz with 384 Mb system RAM and a 20 Gb drive. Windows is controlling the swap file and I've tried removing all running programs except Explorer & Systray. I did consider manually setting the swap file Min/Max, but haven't tried that yet. I'm trying to avoid doing a format and clean install in order to salvage as many programs and data as possible, even though I know a format and clean install would be better; but if that's what I have to do, I'll do it.
The problem I'm having is that I have run into an invalid page fault with every attempt at the upgrade. Winnt32 is causing the fault in Kernel 32 at 017f:bff88396. All the searching I've done on this fault seems to indicate that this could be a failed read attempt caused possibly by bad RAM. The RAM seems to check out OK, so I'm at a loss as to how to solve the problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated. T.I.A.