Installing windows xp on a compaq presario

Does anyone know for certain if you can install windows XP Professional on a Compaq Presario 5441? I was attempting to do a clean install but the setup process continues to fail. At some instances the comp freezes up when copying files over and during others we get a blue screen with various STOP errors including 0x0000000A, 0x00000050, etc.

 

You should be able to, but, that pc is on the very edge of not making it.I would guess your errors are coming either from a bad cd-rom, or a bad disc. Here is the specs fpr your pc,

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us〈=en&product=93344&dlc=en&docname=c00031041

 

the first thing i thought was maybe bad disc, mainly because the install would freeze up in the same spots, when it did. however, i recently used the same install cd for my other pc and it worked fine. Plus i also tried using a backup copy of the xp pro disc and im receiving the same errors. I guess it could be cd-rom but why would the setup go that far then bugout?

 

At 4.3 gig hard drive and a maximum of 384 megs of RAM possible, it is hardly worth the effort, IMO. I'd stick with W98SE, if you can get a copy cheap.
Only 64 megs of RAM installed?

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Bazza

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A lack of RAM can definitely cause XP install errors, as can faulty memory. As mentioned above, even if this PC had the RAM maxed out (a whopping 384mb), it will still run really slow and probably be very frustrating for anyone using it, and the hard drive will be over half full after installing XP, drivers and updates....

 

I have Installed Windows Xp Pro on a 550 mrhz P3 384mb ram and a 10Bg Hdd it ran prefect !! id say try disableing bios shadowing & caching in the system Bios
BTW:If you only have 64mb of ram than you don't have enough to even install windows Xp let alone Run it 128 MB of AVAILABLE System ram IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to even install Windows Xp and even if it installed with 128mb ram It may not boot up correctly as it may not have memory on the first boot

 

Heres a little test on older pc's,

http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm

 

Several years ago, I installed Win XP Pro on a system running an AMD Duron processor rated at 600MHz and 384MB of RAM. It ran fairly good, actually, but it also an AGP video card with 64MB of video memory onboard. The video part of your Compaq is one of the performance-limiting factors for running Win XP well.

 

Obviously it is possible. But I noticed one of their experiments took 30 minutes to bootup (extremely small quantity of RAM--was it 20 megs?).

Great for bragging rights, but not really practical in the real world, IMO.

Bazza

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but does everyone agree that memory issues could cause install errors? Im wondering if buying a new hard drive and more RAM memory would actually help or if Im just wasting my time and that the install errors could be coming from somewhere else?

 

what would be a good way to test the hard drive and ram?