Where's the memory

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I have a laptop with Windows XP but I keep getting a black screen with this
message:
Windows NT has ot found enough extended memory. 7mb of extended memory to
run Windows NT.

I have to press Alt Control Delete to get the computer to restart W/o
showing the message again.
Can anyone help??
I am running Windows Xp not NT
Thanks
Gods Child
 
Gods Child said:
I have a laptop with Windows XP but I keep getting a black screen with this
message:
Windows NT has ot found enough extended memory. 7mb of extended memory to
run Windows NT.

I have to press Alt Control Delete to get the computer to restart W/o
showing the message again.
Can anyone help??
I am running Windows Xp not NT
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I recommend you start with testing the memory. Open the case and reseat all
the memory. Then download and run at least two of these memory utilities.
They will create a bootable floppy or CD. Boot from that and run each one,
letting them run for some time, not just a single pass.

Memtest86+
http://www.memtest.org/

Windows Memory Diagnostic
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

DocMemory Memory Diagnostic
http://www.simmtester.com/page/products/doc/download.asp

If there are several memory sticks you could try removing all but one and
test each one separately.

If that doesn't show a problem, it's some other hardware issue. This is not
an XP OS issue.

Here is a link with tips on troubleshooting hardware issues. You could also
take it to a competent computer repair tech or contact the tech support for
the computer.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html

Here are some links to Google web and group searches on this error.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...nd+enough+extended+memory.&btnG=Google+Search

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...gle+Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wg

Windows XP is part of the Windows NT family. So the reference to Windows NT
is not out of place.

Lastly, I believe you posted this to an NT newsgroup too. If posting to
more than one newsgroup you should crosspost, that is send the same message
at one time to all groups. Do not multi-post as you did - sending the same
message separately to different groups. Multi-posting is counterproductive
and results in duplication of effort.

Good luck.
 
<Bob Hope singing> Thanks for the memories...

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Hi Curt,

Using XP SP2 for the last couple of weeks is punishment enough. :-D

I bought a new machine a couple of weeks ago, blew Vista away and installed
XP Pro SP2. I only had to get about 75 Windows Updates. LOL

My old machine still has XP Pro SP1 on it.

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LOL
I was forced to do a clean install of XP SP2 a couple of weeks ago--yeah,
with all the updates there s/b an SP3 by now. Luckily, I went to DSL for the
first time, when that happened. All is well now. :-)

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HTH,
Curt

Windows Support Center
http://aumha.org/
 
If there is it will be in Wes's library <G>!

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Regards.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
ROTFL

The Quarymen, Johnny and the Moondogs, John Lennon and the Silver Beatles,
Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers... Oh yea and The Beatles.

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Sort of lets you know what I think of Vista, Windows Mail and Windows
Internet Explorer 7 doesn't it. ;-)

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I am OLD.

I was a big fan of The Beatles in junior high and high school, I still am
for that matter. I read all kinds of books, magazine articles, etc. a lot
of them from the school libraries. I graduated high school in 1973 so I was
around listening to them before they broke up.

I first really started listening to radio when I built a crystal set in Cub
Scouts that would pick up our local AM station, listening with an earphone
held up to one ear. I still have that puppy some where in a box in a
closet. LOL I started listening to rock 'n roll in 1966 when my Dad gave
me a radio that could pick up more than one station. I did a lot of DXing
on that old RCA tube radio, it was old when Dad gave it to me. I think that
my folks got it shortly after my Dad got back from Korea in 1953 or 54. It
even had a record player that could be plugged into the radio amp that would
only play 45s. It had the great big spindle.

I remember that in high school our local Gambles store (hardware,
appliances, furniture, whatever) had a rack with all of The Beatles albums
to date on it for sale for like $2.99 each. I bought one every other week
when I could afford it. $2.99 was a lot of money when you were a kid in the
late 60s early 70s. :-)

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Gosh! I didn't realise you were so ancient!

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Gerry

~~~~~~~~
Enquire, plan and execute.
Stourport, England
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I certainly felt that way this morning, Gerry. ;-)

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