Jim said:
When trying to install upgrade XP Home Ed. on operating
system Win98SE it stalls in windows setup. Winnt32 cause
invalid page fault in Krnl386.exe
There are two ways of installing XP - a clean install where the hard
drive is formatted first and an upgrade install where the new operating
system is installed "on top" of the old operating system. If you are
doing the latter, try a clean install instead. Formatting the drive
will wipe all current data, so you would expect to reinstall programs
from cd and restore data from backups. Be sure to install without any
peripherals attached, also.
If you are already doing a clean install and the installation is
failing, you probably have bad hardware. Start with a RAM test - I like
Memtest86 from
www.memtest86.com - and let the test run for an extended
time, like overnight (unless you get errors immediately). If the RAM is
good, then run a hard drive diagnostic utility, which you can get from
the drive mftr.'s website.
Malke
