This pc i bought came with no hard drive and no ram.Firstly i put in 2 sticks of sdram Pc133.it only accepted 1 strick.I even changed them around,the same result 1 stick,the same memory bank aswell,so its not the ram.Then i took out the cmos battery for 30 seconds,put it back,then put in the ram,the same i memory stick works,but this time its on the bank that never worked.So don't what this issue is there,its no the board or ram.Then the hard drive,it gets to the option with safe mode,windows start normal,but nothing happens.Is it because of the 128MB?
2006-12-06 08:01:37 · 10 answers · asked by jason t 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
if windows xp was already installed on the hard drive, then there is hardware conflict, boot the computer with xp's cd, let the files copy when u would accept the LICSENCE AGREEMENT by pressing F8 , it would try to search PREVIOUS OPERATING SYSTEMS and it will find preinstalled windows xp.
chose the option to repair it, proceedure would be almost same as new installation but it will only repair windows and would install new hardware.
128 mb yes it meets minimum system requirement for windows xp, will work perfectly fine :)
2006-12-06 09:04:13 · answer #1 · answered by yousaf m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two sticks of memory may have to be the same size (both 128mb) to register with the total amount of the two. If they are not, then this could be the reason both are not showing up. Older boards would just add the two up. I believe XP will function with 128mb but it will do so very slowly. This sounds like the hd was not built on this PC so it doesn't have all the drivers and .dlls needed. If there are four banks, you could try putting the sticks in 1 and 3 or 2 and 4 to see if it will show up. This doesn't sound like a bad board or bad RAM as you said. Good Luck!
2006-12-06 08:15:51 · answer #2 · answered by stklotto 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it will work but, don't expect much performance. Check the perfmon and you will see a great deal of paging going on. I had a machine just as you mentioned with a 5400 RPM driver and it was brutally slow. Had to up the RAM to 348 and install a 7200 RPM drive (which the sales guy said was already there). Moral of the story. Never buy an eMachine.
2006-12-06 08:06:19 · answer #3 · answered by polar315 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
128mb is VERY low to be running windows XP on, i'm pretty sure that's below the minimum required.
You would be better off with 98/ME.
If you're putting an old hard drive in a new system you should reinstall Windows or totally reformat the hard drive.
2006-12-06 08:05:28 · answer #4 · answered by π² 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greetings! Xp runs on sixty 4 mb of ram. That one stick of ram can be replaced with one that has 1024 mb. Why did you replace the tricky stress? Does it have an os on it? are you able to get to the secure mode F8 and enter final oftentimes going on stable configuration. You havent extremely defined your certainly subject. stable success
2016-10-14 04:02:53 · answer #5 · answered by seabrooks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will need to change the RAM slot to increase your RAM.
XP and operate on 128MB but would be extremely slow. Also your XP could be corrupt sice ut is not opening and may need to be reinstalled.
2006-12-06 08:05:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like your mb/system is having other issues. XP will work fine, albeit slow with 128mb of ram.
2006-12-06 08:21:26 · answer #7 · answered by b b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no its because you just cant swap an xp drive from pc to pc you need to do a fresh install of a leagle copy of windows its gona be slow with only 128 ram tho
2006-12-06 08:05:08 · answer #8 · answered by bsmith13421 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it will run but it will un like shite
2006-12-06 08:12:41 · answer #9 · answered by rsist34 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reports/article.php/12093_3580681_16
2006-12-06 08:04:53 · answer #10 · answered by george r. n. 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋