Re: Help Upgrading from ME to XP
- From: "Doug Holtz" <dholtzNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:30:03 GMT
"Jeff" <jefffby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4315b35a$1_3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
Jeff;
You will not be happy with 128 MB of RAM and XP. Get another stick, 256MB
if your computer supports it, then do the upgrade.
Doug
.
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