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Howdy,

Confusion reigns and efficiency rears its ugly head, and they call it
computing!!

Using an OEN version of WIN XP-Home, on a home-built machine, I
formatted a spare 40G and a spare 80G drive and loaded the OEM-WIN XP
Home onto each, to use when/if the original hdd goes south. Great
idea!

Meanwhile, my DELL 2400 was running FROZEN-MOLASSES-SLOW!!! So I
temporarily installed one of the OEM spare WIN XP Home hard drives. A
Blue Screen error message stated that a problem was detected, and
listed a zillion 0X0000's plus a few other weird numbers.

So I pulled the drive, and went back to the original Dell WIN XP Home
drive. It stated in an error message that WIN XP HOME will be
reinstalled. BUT WITHOUT THE CD ROM disk! How weird is that? I watched
as it actually started re-installing WIN XP Home, and I checked in
wonder..there was no CD Disk in the CD Drive!! Anyway after about 50
minutes, with no progress bar showing, I gave up and quit! Closed her
down and put the Dell in the closet until I can get an answer from
Dell Support.

Until then, can someone toss a few ideas my way? I could have run
Norton's AV on the Dell machine, but I'm afraid I may not live long
enough to see the results..this little puppy is s l o w !
I suspect the mobo...any arguers?

Mike
 
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)

"Michael P Gabriel" <axipolti@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:a20043.0407011100.530a0ffc@posting.google.com...
> Howdy,
>
> Confusion reigns and efficiency rears its ugly head, and they call it
> computing!!
>
> Using an OEN version of WIN XP-Home, on a home-built machine, I
> formatted a spare 40G and a spare 80G drive and loaded the OEM-WIN XP
> Home onto each, to use when/if the original hdd goes south. Great
> idea!
>
> Meanwhile, my DELL 2400 was running FROZEN-MOLASSES-SLOW!!! So I
> temporarily installed one of the OEM spare WIN XP Home hard drives. A
> Blue Screen error message stated that a problem was detected, and
> listed a zillion 0X0000's plus a few other weird numbers.
>
> So I pulled the drive, and went back to the original Dell WIN XP Home
> drive. It stated in an error message that WIN XP HOME will be
> reinstalled. BUT WITHOUT THE CD ROM disk! How weird is that? I watched
> as it actually started re-installing WIN XP Home, and I checked in
> wonder..there was no CD Disk in the CD Drive!! Anyway after about 50
> minutes, with no progress bar showing, I gave up and quit! Closed her
> down and put the Dell in the closet until I can get an answer from
> Dell Support.
>
> Until then, can someone toss a few ideas my way? I could have run
> Norton's AV on the Dell machine, but I'm afraid I may not live long
> enough to see the results..this little puppy is s l o w !
> I suspect the mobo...any arguers?
>
> Mike


What are the system specs on the 2400? If it's using a Celeron with 128mb
of RAM, then there's good reason for it to be slow.

Put the original hard disk back into the 2400 and boot into BIOS. Default
the BIOS settings (ALT+F), then clear the NVRAM (caps/num/scroll lock
enabled, then ALT+E. Pressing 'ESC' then 'enter').

Understand that the factory image isn't helping that system to run any
faster/crisper versus a clean install of the OS.


Stew
 
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)

maybe a virus?

you can't take a hard drive out of one machine and install it in another
machine and expect it to boot. The HAL is entirely different. If both
machines are identical, it will work.


"Michael P Gabriel" <axipolti@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:a20043.0407011100.530a0ffc@posting.google.com...
> Howdy,
>
> Confusion reigns and efficiency rears its ugly head, and they call it
> computing!!
>
> Using an OEN version of WIN XP-Home, on a home-built machine, I
> formatted a spare 40G and a spare 80G drive and loaded the OEM-WIN XP
> Home onto each, to use when/if the original hdd goes south. Great
> idea!
>
> Meanwhile, my DELL 2400 was running FROZEN-MOLASSES-SLOW!!! So I
> temporarily installed one of the OEM spare WIN XP Home hard drives. A
> Blue Screen error message stated that a problem was detected, and
> listed a zillion 0X0000's plus a few other weird numbers.
>
> So I pulled the drive, and went back to the original Dell WIN XP Home
> drive. It stated in an error message that WIN XP HOME will be
> reinstalled. BUT WITHOUT THE CD ROM disk! How weird is that? I watched
> as it actually started re-installing WIN XP Home, and I checked in
> wonder..there was no CD Disk in the CD Drive!! Anyway after about 50
> minutes, with no progress bar showing, I gave up and quit! Closed her
> down and put the Dell in the closet until I can get an answer from
> Dell Support.
>
> Until then, can someone toss a few ideas my way? I could have run
> Norton's AV on the Dell machine, but I'm afraid I may not live long
> enough to see the results..this little puppy is s l o w !
> I suspect the mobo...any arguers?
>
> Mike
 
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)

"S.Lewis" <stew1960@mail.com> wrote in message news:<VS_Ec.1927$WV.1137@bignews5.bellsouth.net>...
> "Michael P Gabriel" <axipolti@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:a20043.0407011100.530a0ffc@posting.google.com...
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Confusion reigns and efficiency rears its ugly head, and they call it
> > computing!!
> >
> > Using an OEN version of WIN XP-Home, on a home-built machine, I
> > formatted a spare 40G and a spare 80G drive and loaded the OEM-WIN XP
> > Home onto each, to use when/if the original hdd goes south. Great
> > idea!
> >
> > Meanwhile, my DELL 2400 was running FROZEN-MOLASSES-SLOW!!! So I
> > temporarily installed one of the OEM spare WIN XP Home hard drives. A
> > Blue Screen error message stated that a problem was detected, and
> > listed a zillion 0X0000's plus a few other weird numbers.
> >
> > So I pulled the drive, and went back to the original Dell WIN XP Home
> > drive. It stated in an error message that WIN XP HOME will be
> > reinstalled. BUT WITHOUT THE CD ROM disk! How weird is that? I watched
> > as it actually started re-installing WIN XP Home, and I checked in
> > wonder..there was no CD Disk in the CD Drive!! Anyway after about 50
> > minutes, with no progress bar showing, I gave up and quit! Closed her
> > down and put the Dell in the closet until I can get an answer from
> > Dell Support.
> >
> > Until then, can someone toss a few ideas my way? I could have run
> > Norton's AV on the Dell machine, but I'm afraid I may not live long
> > enough to see the results..this little puppy is s l o w !
> > I suspect the mobo...any arguers?
> >
> > Mike
>
>
> What are the system specs on the 2400? If it's using a Celeron with 128mb
> of RAM, then there's good reason for it to be slow.
>
> Put the original hard disk back into the 2400 and boot into BIOS. Default
> the BIOS settings (ALT+F), then clear the NVRAM (caps/num/scroll lock
> enabled, then ALT+E. Pressing 'ESC' then 'enter').
>
> Understand that the factory image isn't helping that system to run any
> faster/crisper versus a clean install of the OS.
>
>
> Stew
>>>>>>>>>Hi Stew...Celeron? I said FROZEN MOLASSES SLOW!! I know
what slow is...A P3-233 might be slow. Is 7 hours to load the ops-sys
slow enough for you?
 
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)

"Michael P Gabriel" <axipolti@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:a20043.0407091530.683f9850@posting.google.com...
> "S.Lewis" <stew1960@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:<VS_Ec.1927$WV.1137@bignews5.bellsouth.net>...
>> "Michael P Gabriel" <axipolti@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:a20043.0407011100.530a0ffc@posting.google.com...
>> > Howdy,
>> >
>> > Confusion reigns and efficiency rears its ugly head, and they call it
>> > computing!!
>> >
>> > Using an OEN version of WIN XP-Home, on a home-built machine, I
>> > formatted a spare 40G and a spare 80G drive and loaded the OEM-WIN XP
>> > Home onto each, to use when/if the original hdd goes south. Great
>> > idea!
>> >
>> > Meanwhile, my DELL 2400 was running FROZEN-MOLASSES-SLOW!!! So I
>> > temporarily installed one of the OEM spare WIN XP Home hard drives. A
>> > Blue Screen error message stated that a problem was detected, and
>> > listed a zillion 0X0000's plus a few other weird numbers.
>> >
>> > So I pulled the drive, and went back to the original Dell WIN XP Home
>> > drive. It stated in an error message that WIN XP HOME will be
>> > reinstalled. BUT WITHOUT THE CD ROM disk! How weird is that? I watched
>> > as it actually started re-installing WIN XP Home, and I checked in
>> > wonder..there was no CD Disk in the CD Drive!! Anyway after about 50
>> > minutes, with no progress bar showing, I gave up and quit! Closed her
>> > down and put the Dell in the closet until I can get an answer from
>> > Dell Support.
>> >
>> > Until then, can someone toss a few ideas my way? I could have run
>> > Norton's AV on the Dell machine, but I'm afraid I may not live long
>> > enough to see the results..this little puppy is s l o w !
>> > I suspect the mobo...any arguers?
>> >
>> > Mike
>>
>>
>> What are the system specs on the 2400? If it's using a Celeron with
>> 128mb
>> of RAM, then there's good reason for it to be slow.
>>
>> Put the original hard disk back into the 2400 and boot into BIOS.
>> Default
>> the BIOS settings (ALT+F), then clear the NVRAM (caps/num/scroll lock
>> enabled, then ALT+E. Pressing 'ESC' then 'enter').
>>
>> Understand that the factory image isn't helping that system to run any
>> faster/crisper versus a clean install of the OS.
>>
>>
>> Stew
>>>>>>>>>>Hi Stew...Celeron? I said FROZEN MOLASSES SLOW!! I know
> what slow is...A P3-233 might be slow. Is 7 hours to load the ops-sys
> slow enough for you?


Slow enough to make me run diags on the machine.

Bad CPU, RAM, system board, or hard disk.....

You've made me a believer.


Stew
 
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