I have a Dell Diminsion E510 that came preloaded with windows xp mce, that I'm working on for a friend.
He complained of it dying. I checked it out and could not get it to get to the windows logon screen in any mode. I did all I knew got mad and after friends consent wiped the disk clean and started over. Here is what I have found out.
Firstly he did'nt have a copy of xp mce to restore with, so I repartioned, formatted and installed a copy of windows xp sp3 that I have. It installed and got to the where it should be running windows for the first time and locked up, once again it wont start in any mode. I also have a copy of vista and windows 2000. Just for # and grins I installed both vista and 2000 system boots up and works fine. Please can anyone tell me why xp wont work on this computer while vista and 2000 works fine????
Thanks for all help received...
He complained of it dying. I checked it out and could not get it to get to the windows logon screen in any mode. I did all I knew got mad and after friends consent wiped the disk clean and started over. Here is what I have found out.
Firstly he did'nt have a copy of xp mce to restore with, so I repartioned, formatted and installed a copy of windows xp sp3 that I have. It installed and got to the where it should be running windows for the first time and locked up, once again it wont start in any mode. I also have a copy of vista and windows 2000. Just for # and grins I installed both vista and 2000 system boots up and works fine. Please can anyone tell me why xp wont work on this computer while vista and 2000 works fine????
Thanks for all help received...