512KB of Low Memory Needed?

[JR]

I am trying to install WinXP Pro on a Gateway Essential 933 PC
The PC has the latest BIOS
There is 128MB of Memory (I am buying 256MB more)
A new, unformatted 40GB EIDE hard drive.

When I boot the PC, the POST shows the 128MB of memory (it
goes through the memory check), I have the WinXP Pro CD in the
CD ROM drive, it starts to boot off the CD then this error message
pops up:

"Windows NT has found only 447K of low memory, 512kb of low memory
is required to run windows NT. You may need to upgrade your computer."

What is the problem?

 

[melter]

Erm - not too sure on this one: why would a XP Pro CD report errors in terms
of "Windows NT"?

Is you XP disc legit?

 

[Brian Pemberton]

I am trying to install WinXP Pro on a Gateway Essential 933 PC
The PC has the latest BIOS
There is 128MB of Memory (I am buying 256MB more)
A new, unformatted 40GB EIDE hard drive.

When I boot the PC, the POST shows the 128MB of memory (it
goes through the memory check), I have the WinXP Pro CD in the
CD ROM drive, it starts to boot off the CD then this error message
pops up:

"Windows NT has found only 447K of low memory, 512kb of low memory
is required to run windows NT. You may need to upgrade your computer."

What is the problem?

A quick "google" returned this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q94/8/41.asp&NoWeb
Content=1

The link will almost certainly wrap, so you'll have to cut & paste it...

Looks like the HDD may not be unformatted.

HTH

Brian

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
why would a XP Pro CD report errors in terms
of "Windows NT"?

XP is NT. So is Win2k.

 

[Guest]

The link will almost certainly wrap, so you'll have to
cut & paste it...

Use this for long URLs:
http://tinyurl.com/

or:

http://snipurl.com/index.php

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

What is the original operating system on the Gateway?

 

[JR]

Never Mind. I fixed it. I set the BIOS setting to Default and now XP will install.
Not sure what the problem was... I just upgraded my BIOS to the latest version,
and it looked OK after the upgrade. Not sure why setting it to the default settings
made a difference, unless some setting was causing a memory problem.

I did contact Gateway, and all they told me was to contact Microsoft...