Guy
Thursday, 22nd June 2006, 09:41
Hi all,
I have a very, very old laptop (8 or 9 years old) from Sony, a Vaio PCG-F160 and am having anumber of issues getting it working. I think I know the reason, but wanted to see if anyone else had an idea.
I've firstly tried installing XP from a freshly formatted drive. The install goes ok, but when the machine boots up, I see the white line crawl across the bottom of the screen to show it's loading, but when it comes to the point of displaying the XP loading logo, the machine crashes.
As a result, i tried recovering the machine using the original recovery disc that came with it (Win98), and I can boot to the *very* start of the OS, but as soon as anything tries to load (beyond the welcome screen), again the machine hangs in the same manner.
My thinking is that it's trying to reference duff memory, can't do it and explodes in a confused panic. I've tried removing the memory expansion from it but this makes no difference.
Anyone have any other thoughts as to what I could try?
I have a very, very old laptop (8 or 9 years old) from Sony, a Vaio PCG-F160 and am having anumber of issues getting it working. I think I know the reason, but wanted to see if anyone else had an idea.
I've firstly tried installing XP from a freshly formatted drive. The install goes ok, but when the machine boots up, I see the white line crawl across the bottom of the screen to show it's loading, but when it comes to the point of displaying the XP loading logo, the machine crashes.
As a result, i tried recovering the machine using the original recovery disc that came with it (Win98), and I can boot to the *very* start of the OS, but as soon as anything tries to load (beyond the welcome screen), again the machine hangs in the same manner.
My thinking is that it's trying to reference duff memory, can't do it and explodes in a confused panic. I've tried removing the memory expansion from it but this makes no difference.
Anyone have any other thoughts as to what I could try?