Physical memory dump

[ralph H]

I have heard that XP has major issues , when installed
over ME. I would recommend , a reformat, and then a clean
install.
good luck. all the letters I see here , in all these
lists, dont get responces from M$ , but from others ,
like me who endure this garbage , and see threads in them.
good Luck ,

>-----Original Message-----
>I have HP Pavilion with XP home edition. I left the PC
on
>with only AOL open. I came back to find a blue screen
with
>a message about the system had a problem and XP had to
do
>a physical memory dump. Message requested to reboot the
>PC. When tried to reboot, I get as far as the HP blue
>screen with HP Logo and the HP "invent". The PC would
not
>go any further.
>P.S. - My PC used to have Windows ME and I upraded it to
>XP home a year ago and was working fine all that time.
>.
>

[Ken Blake]

In , ralph H wrote:

> I have heard that XP has major issues , when installed
> over ME. I would recommend , a reformat, and then a clean
> install.


No, you've heard wrong. Upgrades to XP usually work very well,
since XP keeps practically nothing of the old operating system.
Upgrades to earlier versions of Windows were far more likely to
result in problems.

I always recommend at least trying an upgrade, since it's much
easier than a clean installation, and often works fine. If
problems develop, you can always reinstall cleanly.

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

[Walter Clayton]

Don't tell that to my systems. Been running XP over ME over SE over 98 for a
lllloooooonnnnnnggggggg time.

--
Walter Clayton - MS MVP(WinXP)
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/default.asp


"ralph H" > wrote in message
...
> I have heard that XP has major issues , when installed
> over ME. I would recommend , a reformat, and then a clean
> install.
> good luck. all the letters I see here , in all these
> lists, dont get responces from M$ , but from others ,
> like me who endure this garbage , and see threads in them.
> good Luck ,
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have HP Pavilion with XP home edition. I left the PC
> on
> >with only AOL open. I came back to find a blue screen
> with
> >a message about the system had a problem and XP had to
> do
> >a physical memory dump. Message requested to reboot the
> >PC. When tried to reboot, I get as far as the HP blue
> >screen with HP Logo and the HP "invent". The PC would
> not
> >go any further.
> >P.S. - My PC used to have Windows ME and I upraded it to
> >XP home a year ago and was working fine all that time.
> >.
> >

[joe]

>-----Original Message-----
>In , ralph H wrote:
>
>> I have heard that XP has major issues , when installed
>> over ME. I would recommend , a reformat, and then a
clean
>> install.
>
>
>No, you've heard wrong. Upgrades to XP usually work very
well,
>since XP keeps practically nothing of the old operating
system.
>Upgrades to earlier versions of Windows were far more
likely to
>result in problems.
>
>I always recommend at least trying an upgrade, since it's
much
>easier than a clean installation, and often works fine. If
>problems develop, you can always reinstall cleanly.
>
>--
>Ken Blake
>Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>.
>I'll do the clean install after I get the PC booted up
again. It doesn't let me boot in a safe mode either. It
starts up and stops at the Blue "HP ... invent" screen.
Well, thank you all for trying to help. I'll take it to
the store to see if they can salvage my data and get the
machine booting again.