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Frank Haber
I have in front of me an otherwise fully functional Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop,
384MB, Cel2.4 (the hot-pistol one), XPSP1. I've gone beyond Jupiter's
checklist and positively scoured the machine for malware. It's up to date
with WGA and all critical updates (note distinction (g)). It's updated to
Dell's latest drivers. I've tried single SIMM, and two sets of two SIMMs, all
previously checked in other machines that take DDR2100.
Nevertheless, on six tries, from net, CD and HD .EXE, the SP2 setup fails at
about the same point, right after the backup, at the beginning of "copy
files," with a page_fault_in_nonpaged_area, Stop50. All apps run fine, as do
all the loaded apps, as have some pretty demanding diagnostics. CHDSK /F and
/R have completed fine. I've tried with nothing plugged into the machine, and
the CD-RW pulled.
I don't know what else to do, and October looms. Questions:
1. Is it worth trying a safemode sp2 update? Does that ever work?
2. Antispyware suggestions for a not-fast, 384 RAM machine? MS Antispy beta 1
drops dead this weekend, yes?
Thanks,
Frank
384MB, Cel2.4 (the hot-pistol one), XPSP1. I've gone beyond Jupiter's
checklist and positively scoured the machine for malware. It's up to date
with WGA and all critical updates (note distinction (g)). It's updated to
Dell's latest drivers. I've tried single SIMM, and two sets of two SIMMs, all
previously checked in other machines that take DDR2100.
Nevertheless, on six tries, from net, CD and HD .EXE, the SP2 setup fails at
about the same point, right after the backup, at the beginning of "copy
files," with a page_fault_in_nonpaged_area, Stop50. All apps run fine, as do
all the loaded apps, as have some pretty demanding diagnostics. CHDSK /F and
/R have completed fine. I've tried with nothing plugged into the machine, and
the CD-RW pulled.
I don't know what else to do, and October looms. Questions:
1. Is it worth trying a safemode sp2 update? Does that ever work?
2. Antispyware suggestions for a not-fast, 384 RAM machine? MS Antispy beta 1
drops dead this weekend, yes?
Thanks,
Frank