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I have an Hp Pavilion 7850 that came with Win ME and 128 mb of RAM. I
upgraded to XP Home and have added 256 mb of RAM for a total of 384 MB. The
systedm is now real slow and I need to add the maximum amount of RAM this
machine will take 2 x 256 (512). The system will boot past the BIOS but will
not start XP. I get an error message that windows was stopped and asks me to
start either normal safe last safe boot and have tried them all comes back to
the screen.

I have tried to boot the system from the XP install disc and get an error
message that says windows ws stopped becasue of a hardware issue. HP support
syas to use system recovery to reinstall ME then reinstall XP. I do not want
to lose all of my files and hope someone has a work around. Since ms no
longer supports ME I do not want to go there if I can work around.

the memory sticks 256 mb will work by themselves and with the original 128
that came with the machine but not together. Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
Randy said:
I have an Hp Pavilion 7850 that came with Win ME and 128 mb of RAM. I
upgraded to XP Home and have added 256 mb of RAM for a total of 384 MB. The
systedm is now real slow and I need to add the maximum amount of RAM this
machine will take 2 x 256 (512). The system will boot past the BIOS but will
not start XP. I get an error message that windows was stopped and asks me to
start either normal safe last safe boot and have tried them all comes back to
the screen.

I have tried to boot the system from the XP install disc and get an error
message that says windows ws stopped becasue of a hardware issue. HP support
syas to use system recovery to reinstall ME then reinstall XP. I do not want
to lose all of my files and hope someone has a work around. Since ms no
longer supports ME I do not want to go there if I can work around.

the memory sticks 256 mb will work by themselves and with the original 128
that came with the machine but not together. Any ideas would be appreciated.
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You're in entirely the wrong group, I'm afraid - you should probably be
asking this in .general.
Personally confronted with this machine and needing an XP system, I'd
probably end up replacing the thing. I've learned to be very suspicious
of the PSUs in prebuilt systems, as they tend to be no more powerful
than they absolutely have to be. A machine that came with 128MB of RAM
probably isn't really up to running XP. I'd send the RAM back and get a
nice new mobo, case (with a decent PSU) chip and RAM recommended for the
board.
However, if you were only putting XP on it because of the discontinued
support for ME, perhaps you'd be better off looking into Linux. I don't
run it myself - mac user - but I'm told Ubuntu is pretty easy to deal with.
 
Thank you Adora Belle I was afraid this was the answer I would get. I was
hoping to hold off until Vista came out and get a machine that was built for
Vista.
 
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