Hello. For X-mas I received a copy of Win Xp sp2 OEM (full version). It was to upgrade my win 2k machine. Well for X-mas I had already purchased a new pc. When ever I purchased a pc in the past I always had it custom built. What cpu, mb, memory, peripherals, etc. The Dell was a good price and seemed to have what I wanted so I bought it. I liked it but it was loaded with Dell products. They gave me all the disk's of loaded software including the win XP sp2 os. Of course they all said for a Dell pc. It has a P4 3 gig cpu with hyper threading, 1 gig memory, 160 gig hd, Sound blaster sound card, generic modem and on board video. DVD drive (thought it was a burner also but found out it wasn't), CD-RW drive and a floppy. 6 USB's but no firewire. I installed an external dvd burner. One thing I liked about it was the restore feature. I never had this before. It also came with Norton Internet Security. One option the pc had was if I wanted to completely reformat all I had to do was press cntr-f11 at boot and it would reformat the machine quickly to it's original state. While doing this the program showed Symantic not Dell so I figured it was a feature of the Norton Internet Security packing. It isn't.
Ok - to make this long story a little shorter. I started having a memory problem. I tried installing a program called 'poser 5'. After install, it would crash telling me I didn't have enough memory (remember I have 1 gig) and would then crash my system. It would however work in safe mood. >From that time on, no matter what program I used, when ever I exited the program my system crashed. The blue screen said it was doing a memory dump at location xxxxx...... Deleting the program, or any programs did not help. I decide to do the cntr-f11 and reformat but remembered that I had an oem disk of xp sp2. I wiped my hd with killdisk, ran fdisk64, formatted and put the oem os on, installed the mb and chip set drivers (plus what ever driver it needed) and the pc runs fine, even faster then before. Now for the questions: 1) I haven't installed Poser 5. It says it needs 256 megs of ram. Why do you think I had problems with it and how do you increase memory for one particular program as it instructed? It just said to increase the memory to the program (virtual) but it didn't say how. 2) I naturally lost that cntr-f11 feature that would reformat my machine back to where it was when I got it. Is this a Symantic program that only pc companies own or can I get a copy of it? It isn't on the Dell OS disk. Only thing on that is xp sp2 and all the Dell programs. This program asked me (the f11 program) for name, location, cd key etc. and formatted the program with the Dell os. I apologize for this being so long but tried to tell you everything I could think of. Thanks, Mick ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hmb7tgm/M=362335.6886445.7839731.1510227/D=groups/S=1705115386:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123019572/A=2894361/R=0/SIG=13jmebhbo/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=GRP&RTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/";>In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
