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You shouldn't need to change anything, RAM is plus and play. Sounds like one of your sticks is defective. What I'd do is remove one of then and reboot. If everything is okay, you know the one in the PC is fine.

Switch off and take that RAM out and put the other one, reboot. If boot fails, you found a defective stick.

If it boots on each individual stick of RAM, I'd be a bit lost lol.

*unless XP will only recognise a 2Gb + 1 Gb stick....?

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Yeah, I have the same issue. It's because of the 32 bit operating system.

With your hard drive, do you have the latest service packs installed? I remember trying to do a clean reinstall using an older service pack of Windows XP and it didn't recognize the entire hard drive on install. I had to slipstream a disc.

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I also have a New HD @ 250gb but XP only reads 127gb

Correct Firefly.

This was fixed in XP Service Pack 2. Install this and all should be ok.

Not sure why you would not have it already...perhaps not a genuine xp ;)

Otherwise, you've got alot of updates to download!!

Dav

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I also have a New HD @ 250gb but XP only reads 127gb

Correct Firefly.

This was fixed in XP Service Pack 2. Install this and all should be ok.

Not sure why you would not have it already...perhaps not a genuine xp ;)

Otherwise, you've got alot of updates to download!!

Dav

It's an old copy of XP that I got with my Alienware system back in the day (6 years ago... wow... that computer is getting ancient)...

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It's legal it came with my gateway 500 desktop which I upgraded and built a new system 3 years ago and used my old OS disc and now have upgraded again with the disc .

I am running SP3 after loading OS sp1, but As Viiiper explained to me when you load the OS you load vanilla then load the sevice packs so it will not change without loading a Sp2 os or above.

Now Im sure there are some kind of partition tricks but I am not very savy at that stuff.......Ach Weel

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