Daave said:
I had totally forgotten about this one! Welcome back.
Do you have the latest XP drivers for your Lexmark Z51 installed?
Yep -- except that my printer is also so old that "latest" means 2001.
I'm not familiar with your HP Application Recovery disk, so I won't be
able to help you there. I wonder if this disk only works if you have
your original 98 SE OS on your hard drive (I believe you said you had
upgraded to XP).
It's possible, although it did get part way through the process before
giving the error message.
If you want to pursue this further, see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427
"How to view and manage event logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP"
Scroll down to "How to View Event Details," which gives you instructions
on how to copy and paste all the information.
Thanks. Here they are, for whatever it may be worth
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 08/20/2007
Time: 9:06:15 AM
User: N/A
Computer: PAVILION
Description:
Fault bucket 130061967.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20 Bucket:
0008: 31 33 30 30 36 31 39 36 13006196
0010: 37 0d 0a 7..
-- and ---
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 08/20/2007
Time: 9:06:10 AM
User: N/A
Computer: PAVILION
Description:
Faulting application mmc.exe, version 5.1.2600.2180, faulting module
ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x00011e5a.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 6d 6d 63 ure mmc
0018: 2e 65 78 65 20 35 2e 31 .exe 5.1
0020: 2e 32 36 30 30 2e 32 31 .2600.21
0028: 38 30 20 69 6e 20 6e 74 80 in nt
0030: 64 6c 6c 2e 64 6c 6c 20 dll.dll
0038: 35 2e 31 2e 32 36 30 30 5.1.2600
0040: 2e 32 31 38 30 20 61 74 .2180 at
0048: 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 offset
0050: 30 30 30 31 31 65 35 61 00011e5a
0058: 0d 0a ..
Good God! You're really pushing the envelope!
No kidding.
Unless the above is a typo, you need to reclaim more free space. I would
shoot for no more than 50% full (10 GB free). At the very least, make
sure your hard drive is absolutely no more than 85% full (3 GB free).
Unfortunately, it's that clogged up because I haven't yet uninstalled
Win98, for the reason you suggest further down.
Your PC is not at all ideally suited to run XP,
Nope.
although it's possible.
Just barely.
Do you *have* to run XP? If not, I would save all your data, e-mails,
bookmarks, and other settings and reinstall 98. You could also opt for a
dual-boot, which would arguably be preferable to just running XP.
I only have two programs which require XP, my tax program for last year,
and one which saves files from my voice recorder. I've already finished
the taxes, so I don't need that one. The other is more problematical,
but it's certainly not worth having XP for just a single program
(although I've already paid for it, of course!). I was actually
considering doing just what you suggested -- reverting to 98, (not
dual-booting, which would use up just as much disk space, if not more,
right?)
I was planning (if all else failed) to revert to 98, reinstall Quicken,
then reinstall XP (and hope that Quicken ran under it). That's such a
drag that I was hoping there might be some other solution. But perhaps
I should just revert to 98, period. Then under 98Of course, the problem
will only get worse in the future, as any future programs will probably
not work under XP either. And, cheap though new computers may be,
buying one is just not an option.
(P.S. I know a guy -- who actually works for IBM! -- who still only has
DOS, and whose word processor is one he wrote himself in BASIC.)
