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hellraiser357 · 05-28-2007, 07:08 PM

All of the CMOS settings are being retained, at least the ones I can see in the BIOS settings screen. No sounds or warnings during boot up at first, but read on.

I updated the BIOS today and resarted the install. Same symptoms as before. It has been stuck on the installing devices screen for about 4 hours now, making very very very slow progress. I have done a little more research, and may have stumbled on a possible solution. When trying to boot from the CD with w2k on it, I got an error message that said 'the system memory manager (EMM386.exe) found an error. Exception code 6. Invalid opcode.' Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this generally point to failing memory? I think I need to go to the computer shop down the street and pick up a 128 meg stick of RAM.

Is there anything else that may cause this snafu?

Will the memory from my Compaq armada E500 (old a$$ laptop too) work? I may pull it to try it out. I know the RAM stick is under the keyboard on the compaq, but what about the toughbook?

05-28-2007, 07:08 PM	#3 (permalink)
hellraiser357 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas Posts: 66 OS: Win2000	Re: W2k clean install on Toughbook All of the CMOS settings are being retained, at least the ones I can see in the BIOS settings screen. No sounds or warnings during boot up at first, but read on. I updated the BIOS today and resarted the install. Same symptoms as before. It has been stuck on the installing devices screen for about 4 hours now, making very very very slow progress. I have done a little more research, and may have stumbled on a possible solution. When trying to boot from the CD with w2k on it, I got an error message that said 'the system memory manager (EMM386.exe) found an error. Exception code 6. Invalid opcode.' Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this generally point to failing memory? I think I need to go to the computer shop down the street and pick up a 128 meg stick of RAM. Is there anything else that may cause this snafu? Will the memory from my Compaq armada E500 (old a$$ laptop too) work? I may pull it to try it out. I know the RAM stick is under the keyboard on the compaq, but what about the toughbook? Last edited by hellraiser357; 05-28-2007 at 07:09 PM.