wolfyDolf

all my hardware it's compatible with xp (i think .. i went on all producers site of my desknote hardware and all say that is compatible with XP)

no .. i haven't tried ... but i was 10 minutes ago on the sis producer site and it says that this chipset supports ata100/66/33. how do you explain that i'm running now windows 98se ... i'm connected to the internet with this desknote at the moment i write this message.

Chipset The A980 features the SiS651/962 chipset with integrated 256-bit 3D graphics accelerator for Intel Pentium 4 processors. The graphics accelerator supports a shared memory size of up to 64MB, and also supports advanced hardware acceleration for DVD playback. The AGP 4X interface ensures crisp and clear graphics quality, while the chipset’s Ultra-AGPII technology interconnects the integrated VGA chip and memory controller, allowing data transfer rates up to 2GB per second. SiS' special MuTIOL technology provides 533MB/s bandwidth to connect the chipset's north bridge and south bridge. This is what i've found on the producer site ... My HDD is an IBM 4,80 Gb ATA 66 ... I saw what you found on the microsoft site ... but I had once installed on this Hdd on another laptop windows xp and i didn't get no error. Though .... it may be the HDD But i'm not totally convinced on this one ... because as i said earlier i had windows xp installed on this hdd

sapiens74 : I've tried what you told me to do but it still doesn't work I've managed to install windows 98 but sometimes (as in Win 2000) my computer restarts without any reason .. My desknote is kind of warm (i can say hot too) ..

Here's the exact Blue Screen error : A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR ------------ Technical information : *** STOP : 0x0000007A (0xE1164824, 0xC0000098, 0xBF8ED7DD, 0x09CED860) *** win32k.sys - Address BF8ED7DD base at BF800000, datestamp 3B7DE698

I've recently bought a new ECS desknote A980 : P4 2,4 fsb 533 512 MB DDR (333) ONBOARD GRAPHICS, SOUND , MODEM, LAN Everything was fine 'till i started to install the WINDOWS XP Professional. All went successully 'till the screen with INSTALLING DEVICES and a progress bar under it. The progress bar didn't stop (it went fine a couple of minutes) but suddenly an error message appears (a window with OK) : "Windows can't install the (X) Device ......" where (X) : Display , Modem , Keyboard , Mouse , etc. I clicked ok ok ok ok ok ok and then the BLUE SCREEN appears with this message "kernel_in_data_page_error" or something like that. It said also something about win32k.sys and some memory adresses and "Beginning of memory dump .. Memory dump complete." Here's what i've tried to do : - i've changed the memory with the same type I had and it still didn't work (the same message appeared) - i've tried to update my bios with some patches over the internet but it still won't work (the same message) - i've tried to install win2k and it installed successfully but when i've tried to do work after a while, the desknote restarted without an error message and when i've tried to install my modem it appeared the same blue screen Please help me .. I don't know what to do anymore .. And I really like XP Waiting for your suggestions .. THANK YOU .