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Smart
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 Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:52 am Post subject: [Help]trying to boot up old ass computer |
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You may laugh when you read this but...
I am trying to boot up a computer that is old as..
Right now as soon as it goes passed the turn on screen(where it shows heaps of numbers and that) my whole screen just goes black and nothing happens.
OK this computer is old shit! 32.0MB RAM, 19GB Hard drive.
It had Windows XP running on it. it was going fine until i kept resetting my PC(manually by pressing the restart button on it)
HOW DO I UNINSTALL WINDOWS XP?
now it wont boot up.
any ideas?
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Noz3001
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:59 am Post subject: |
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You cant fit Windows on 256MB  . Get the installation disk and drop to the recovery console and type fixboot and/or fixmbr.
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Smart
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:31 am Post subject: |
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whoops my bad...
it was 19 GB hard drive..
the thing you will crack up at is 32.0 MB RAM..
currently trying to install windows 2000 pro..
tell you results.
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^^ Are you lying to us? or this could just be part of the problem... Windows XP needs atleast 64mb to run in shitty limited everything mode. I doubt you could even INSTALL xp with that amount of RAM... Try windows 98.
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| localhost wrote: | | ^^ Are you lying to us? or this could just be part of the problem... Windows XP needs atleast 64mb to run in shitty limited everything mode. I doubt you could even INSTALL xp with that amount of RAM... Try windows 98. |
yeah i found out the problem...
it was because the piece of shit didnt have enough ram.
i had to install windows 2000 on it.
right now it currently has windows 2000 and windows XP installed...
how do i uninstall windows XP? because it doesnt work(not enough random access memory)
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1) Format your hard drive...
2) Install Linux.
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| localhost wrote: | 1) Format your hard drive...
2) Install Linux. |
You just reccomended Linux to someone who tried to install XP with 32MB of memory. I say stick to win2k, its almost as good as XP.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Smart wrote: | whoops my bad...
it was 19 GB hard drive..
the thing you will crack up at is 32.0 MB RAM..
currently trying to install windows 2000 pro..
tell you results. |
I think i have a shit ass computer from 96... Im pretty sure it only had 12gig - suckish specs but i was still able to run d2 with "some" minor laggs...
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Smart
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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yah, so how do i uninstall windows XP?
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format your hard drive....
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| put the reinstall disc in? if you dont have it, idk wut else, because you need the drivers for the computer.
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Its hard to believe that you of all people don't know how to uninstall windows xp.
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| jsin95 wrote: | | put the reinstall disc in? if you dont have it, idk wut else, because you need the drivers for the computer. |
i had to lol at that. you have no idea what you're saying 
and why not just get a new computer? that computer's not even going to be able to handle an every day task. you can pick up a decent/average computer for quite cheap nowadays.
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