I have a 3-year old computer, P3, 2GB RAM, XP SP2, no printer or external devices. It came up with "no OS" errors and would not boot up. I dont have a full install XP disk, only an upgrade. I do have a full install win98 cd, so i was going to install that and then upgrade to XP. Win98 installed with no problems and it is working fine (as far as win98 goes!). when I try to upgrade to XP, i get an error message that says "Insufficient memory for installation". When i look at system properties, it shows i have 1GB RAM. Checking the BIOS on boot, it also is showing 1GB. I cleaned and reseated the RAM cards (2 - 1GB cards), switched card slots etc, but it still only shows 1 GB. Even though it only is showing 1 GB RAM, it should still have plenty of memory free to install XP. I did an "edit config.sys" and an "edit autoexec.bat" and there is nothing showing (files are empty). According to Mircrosoft, these files are not needed in Win98. Something appears to using memory, but i cant find it. Any ideas?
thanks so much,
Jeff
thanks so much,
Jeff