No responses? mick wrote:
> 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 > > > 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 > > * Visit your group "A-1-Computer_Tech > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech>" on the web. > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hbt7901/M=362335.6886445.7839731.1510227/D=groups/S=1705115386:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123187287/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/
