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Subject: Re: Has anyone upgraded successfully to XP on a 9100?

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mohamed mostafa
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Date Posted: 09:27:58 06/16/06 Fri
In reply to: Greig Crowder 's message, "Re: Has anyone upgraded successfully to XP on a 9100?" on 14:41:20 07/23/04 Fri

>YES! I have successfully loaded Windows XP Pro on a
>Gateway Solo 9100 Ver. 6.0 having a Pentium 150 and
>64MB of memory. It's a little slow on startup. But
>once up and running, it works well. There's a lot of
>memory swapping going on with more complicated work.
>A memory upgrade will probably solve that problem. A
>CPU upgrade would help as well. But I believe I must
>install a whole new motherboard since the CPU is
>soldered to the board (I think).
>
>Anyway, it does work!
>
>>Hi Graham,
>>
>>I got an error message also when trying to install XP.
>>stop: c0000211 unknown hard error
>>\systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll
>>
>>So far i think there are some drivers needed to get
>>rid og this problem (you can choose F6 for adding
>>drivers at some point before XP wants to install.)
>>Maybe it are RAID drivers for the HD or
>>something?...not figured out yet but i will try to
>>find it out.
>>I also found out that the same errors occure on other
>>systems while trying to install XP so it must be
>>missing drivers..but the question is for what:)

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>>YES! I have successfully loaded Windows XP Pro on a >>Gateway Solo 9100 Ver. 6.0 having a Pentium 150 and >>64MB of memory. It's a little slow on startup. But >>once up and running, it works well. There's a lot of >>memory swapping going on with more complicated work. >>A memory upgrade will probably solve that problem. A >>CPU upgrade would help as well. But I believe I must >>install a whole new motherboard since the CPU is >>soldered to the board (I think). >> >>Anyway, it does work! >> >>>Hi Graham, >>> >>>I got an error message also when trying to install >XP. >>>stop: c0000211 unknown hard error >>>\systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll >>> >>>So far i think there are some drivers needed to get >>>rid og this problem (you can choose F6 for adding >>>drivers at some point before XP wants to install.) >>>Maybe it are RAID drivers for the HD or >>>something?...not figured out yet but i will try to >>>find it out. >>>I also found out that the same errors occure on other >>>systems while trying to install XP so it must be >>>missing drivers..but the question is for what:)

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