ASUS CUV4X Motherboard OK for upgrade to XP?

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ASUS CUV4X Socket 370FC-PGA. Its not on the Microsoft catalogue of
compatibile hardware, so is that why I can't manage to upgrade my system from
98SE to XP??? Any help gratefully read!

Kevo
 
My understanding is that if it's not compatible one takes a huge risk on it
not working.

Given that it's you motherboard: it is not a risk one would generally accept.
 
Kevo said:
ASUS CUV4X Socket 370FC-PGA. Its not on the Microsoft catalogue of
compatibile hardware, so is that why I can't manage to upgrade my system from
98SE to XP??? Any help gratefully read!
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I've used XP with my CUV4X for about three years now.
Never any problems; smooth as glass.

-- Bob Day
http://bobday.vze.com
 
Bob,
You wrote
I've used XP with my CUV4X for about three years now.
Never any problems; smooth as glass.
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That's great news, Bob - now at least I can eliminate 1 possibility. I've
been trying for about a week to effect an upgrade from 98se to xp, and during
an early phase of installation (preparation) I get a block, accompanied by
the Fatal Error message that the system cannot create a temporary folder.
That sounded to me like space, of which I actually have plenty (16GB), but
then I thought of hardware compatability. If the motherboard is OK from your
experience I'm not at all sure what else to do. I've removed all sorts of
software and hardware just to be on the safe side - still no joy.
Thanks for your reply anyway.
Kevo
 
Kevo said:
Bob,
You wrote


That's great news, Bob - now at least I can eliminate 1 possibility.
I've
been trying for about a week to effect an upgrade from 98se to xp,
and during
an early phase of installation (preparation) I get a block,
accompanied by
the Fatal Error message that the system cannot create a temporary
folder.
That sounded to me like space, of which I actually have plenty
(16GB), but
then I thought of hardware compatability. If the motherboard is OK
from your
experience I'm not at all sure what else to do. I've removed all
sorts of
software and hardware just to be on the safe side - still no joy.
Thanks for your reply anyway.
Kevo
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Early on it writes files to a ramdisk. Use a ram tester to check for
bad RAM. _or_ an old driver has reserved space in memory
that XP needs to use. Sounds as if you have been working on
this for a while. I would back up all the personal data, write zeros
to the HDD and do a clean install.
 
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