Galacticus
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- Nov 17, 2001
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I have been wrestling with this beast for several weeks. Upgrading from ME to XP Home. First, I's the dreaded error 3e6H. I read MS's solution, the clean boot. Didn't help. The problem is inconsistant, though. I have run setup all the way through the analysing stage, but when it reboots,after an inordinately long time, the rboot fails, by which I mean that the system gets to the point where it says, "Checking DMI Pool" (or something much like), then hangs. At this point, I have to boot off a ME floppy, and sys the c drive. This allows me to boot, but setup never resumes.
My Specs...
MB=Abit BX-6; PII 450mz
512 mg ram
C: is 42 gbl D: is 12 Gb, both Maxtor
E: Teac CDRW; F: Ricoh DVD/CDRW
3D Prophet GeoForce 256 w/32 mg
Creative AWE 64
Avermedia TV Tuner
Ethernet Card (on Llinksys network router with cable connection. other peer is a Sony Vaio also running ME)
Stuff I've tried...Clean Boot using msconfig, with variations like loading or unloading the network servers to allow for dynamic update, Copying the !386 directory to c: and running WINNT. This almost works also, but same thing...won't boot, I have to sys the c: drive, then it boots into ME without continuing setup. Unloading Norton 2002 Systemworks and Antivirus, both through Norton itself and MS config. I even uninstalled it. Not the problem it seems. I have reinstalled ME, then tried the upgrade.I really want to run the upgrade instead of the full install to keep all my software and settings, but at this point, I am not sure even THAT would take.
Most frustrating....
My Specs...
MB=Abit BX-6; PII 450mz
512 mg ram
C: is 42 gbl D: is 12 Gb, both Maxtor
E: Teac CDRW; F: Ricoh DVD/CDRW
3D Prophet GeoForce 256 w/32 mg
Creative AWE 64
Avermedia TV Tuner
Ethernet Card (on Llinksys network router with cable connection. other peer is a Sony Vaio also running ME)
Stuff I've tried...Clean Boot using msconfig, with variations like loading or unloading the network servers to allow for dynamic update, Copying the !386 directory to c: and running WINNT. This almost works also, but same thing...won't boot, I have to sys the c: drive, then it boots into ME without continuing setup. Unloading Norton 2002 Systemworks and Antivirus, both through Norton itself and MS config. I even uninstalled it. Not the problem it seems. I have reinstalled ME, then tried the upgrade.I really want to run the upgrade instead of the full install to keep all my software and settings, but at this point, I am not sure even THAT would take.
Most frustrating....