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re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Monday, July 22, 2002 at 7:30 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by RA_23
(1 messages posted)
The 8637 is an HP Pavilion OOW model.
Original configuration shows that this model was made to run Windows 98.
The configuration is as follows:
Pandora-U motherboard
AMD Athlon™, 750 MHz (slot A)
AMD Irongate Chipset
128 MB SDRAM, 100 MHz (expandable to 512 MB)
20.4 GB hard drive
L1 Cache - 128KB Core Speed
L2 Cache - 512KB backside/Half Core Speed
CD-RW Rewritable Drive
TNT2 Pro Graphics card with 16 Mbytes video memory (uses
AGP slot)
V.90 56 Kbps modem (56 Kbps data / 14.4 Kbps fax)
Expansion slots: 5 PCI slots; 0 ISA slots; 1 AGP slot
External ports: 2 USB; 1 serial; 1 parallel; 1 game port
Front I/O: 1 serial
MPEG2 playback for full-screen, full-motion digital video
Internet ready keyboard
PS/2 Mouse with scroll wheel
"E" Speakers
Try a BIOS upgrade first, most older models needed this for XP compatibility.
If you need further support, call the support # for your country. I believe the 8637
is an Asian/Pacific model.
On Monday, May 20, 2002 at 9:43 pm, Jo wrote:
>Your suggestion sounds good except I cannot get into the bios the way you described,
>is there any other way, with the errors I get the blue death screen as as per norm
>it asks me to check everything from software to hardware, technical error as follows
>PAGE-FAULT-IN-NONPAGED-AREA
>asks to disable catching or shadowing
>
>STOP: ox00000050 (0xCOFF824C,0X00000001,0X804EB84A,0X00000000)
>beginning to dump physical files.
>this to me is jargen. My HP model is 8637. I can't tell you BIOS details as yet
cause
>I can't seem to get into them. I've download some BIOS updates from HP for a different
>model, that came a few month after mine so I figure they couldn't have changed it
>too much and if I can get into BIOS should I try to up grade that way, as I need
>to run XP for my broad band to work so I have to try anything, even ripping the
guts
>out of this thing and starting again, should be cheeper than a new pc.
>
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