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Missing or damaged 'pci.sys'
I have an old P3 computer running XP Pro that had 384Mb of RAM and, as a
result, ran pretty slowly and did a lot of page-swapping. In my attempt to spruce it up I took out the 128Mb stick and put in a 256Mb stick which should have brought the motherboard up to it's maximum of 512Mb. All the RAM sticks are PC100 and from the same manufacturer but when I did this, XP refused to start stating that "the file 'pci.sys' is missing or damaged" and halted. Stopping the POST with the Scroll Lock always showed the proper amounts of RAM (128/384/512) found immediately before halting with the error. I played with the 3 sticks a bit - moving them around the two slots, mixing up which one went where but could never make the error go away if both sticks were 256Mb. According to a couple on-line memory scanner applets (and the users manual for the motherboard) the maximum I can hold is 512Mb so I am wondering just why this error pops up. I also downloaded the MS memory scanner that fits on a floppy and ran that overnight with two 256Mb sticks in it - no errors. As near as I can tell, the 'pci.sys' I brought over from another XP Pro computer is the same as the one on this machine but still errors out. I know the computer is old and creaky, but it makes a good platform for both my flatbed plotter and my wide-carriage, dot-matrix printer. Questor |
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