Re: Help Upgrading from ME to XP
- From: "Jeff" <jefffby@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:44:56 -0500
Thanks doug and Ben for the response. Since I have seen many different
possible causes for this error I have gone back to the beginning and am
starting the process of trying to determine the problem. So far here is
what I have done. 1. I put my old 20 gig drive with Me loaded on it which
runs just fine no problems back in. 2. I did download and install the one
bios update for this machine that i found on HP's website. It took fine
rebooted and everything still running well. 3. Next I ran the
compatability test on the Windows XP disk and the only things that came up
was some software, which I anticipated and no big deal. There were no
hardware issues listed. 4. Next I downloaded memtest86, since there were
mentions of memory problems. I ran the test, which I have never used this
before so I am not quite sure how to read this but once it got to test 3 it
started popping up what i believe is an error giving me a memory address of
149.2mb. It kept giving me this same memory address error thru the rest of
the test. Not being familar with this program but having a general idea I
decided to swap the ram modules into the opposite slots and ran the test and
sure enough it started giving me the error at memory address 21.2mb. so I
removed one stick of ram and ran the test one the 128mb stick and it started
giving me the error at 21.2mb so I took that stick out and put my other
stick of 128mb in and ran the test and at that point it did not give any
erroes at all. So now I have a question and am not sure if you might know
or if I need to post somewhere else. Since memtest86 only gave the one
memory address as a problem and since my comp will boot up fine even with
just this one stick of ram does this mean it only has one bad spot in the
ram? and is this enough to keep it from loading XP? Next question if this
one spot is enough to keep it from loading, since the minimum specs for XP
is 128mb ram should it be possible to load XP with just the one stick of ram
that is showing no errors then after getting it loaded put the other stick
back in?
Just wanted to give an update and pass along what I am finding out with this
problem.
Thanks,
Jeff
<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
news:4313bd6e.29827408@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Well, I can see why you are asking a question here. The HP web site info
for
> this model of Pavilion notebook is simply non-existent. Still, I turned
up some
> information about the beast via Google (what else?), namely a PC Magazine
review
> of the product. Here is where I suspect the problem lies: "S3 Savage IX
128-bit
> AGP2x graphics adapter". Why? Because S3 did very few graphics drivers
for its
> graphics chips and Windows XP. I'll bet that the graphics chip is
oddball
> enough that XP does not know what to do with it. Just a guess, because S3
was
> acquired by Diamond Multimedia, who changed their name and killed off the
S3
> graphics chips and deep-sixed their line of graphics cards.
>
> As for the hard drive, apparently the system was manufactured around 2001,
> certainly a timeframe when BIOSes could be expected to handle an 80GB
drive
> properly.
>
> I think more testing is needed. Can you put the original drive bak in the
> system and try the Windows XP install again? If it installs correctly,
you'll
> know that the 80GB drive is beyond the capacity of the BIOS, and you'll
have no
> choice except to use the fairly crummy WD EZ-Drive software, which fools
the
> operating system into thinking that the BIOS actually works with 80GB.
>
> ... Ben Myers
>
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:20:37 -0500, "Jeff" <jefffby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am hoping someone can help me out. I have an HP Pavillion n5295
laptop.
> >It came loaded with Windows Me. I bought a Western Digital 80gig hard
> >drive. I put the new hard drive in and booted from the WindowsXp cd, it
> >goes the all the initall loading of drivers ect. but when it gets to the
> >point of starting the windows install and formatting and such a blue
screen
> >comes up saying system had to shut down due to a partmgr.sys error no
page
> >fault error. I can not seem to get around this. Has anyone else run
into
> >this or successfully upgraded this system to windows XP? At one point
> >during an attempted install (I rebooted and tried several times) a
message
> >popped up saying something about not having loaded a mass storage device
and
> >to insert a disk with the driver. In the bios it recognizes having a 71
gig
> >drive(not 80 for some reason). Not sure what driver it might be looking
for
> >or why it says no mass store device? I have searced the web for this
error
> >and i have seen many references to this issue but none that give a
> >resolution. On western digitals website it lists this error and says
that i
> >need to press f6 when windowsxp first starts the install process and load
> >the drivers for the hard drive. I have looked on HP's website and can
not
> >find where I can download the hard drive controller and even looked on
the
> >recovery cd that came with the notebook but do not find any hard drive
> >controllers on it. So I guess I am kind of stuck at the moment and
> >wondering if anyone on here might have a resolution to this problem.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jeff
> >
> >
>
.
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