$10 pokerstars transfer if u help me with this....

[Indiana]

I have an older 2001 Dell XPS 450. I tried to download Microsoft office on it and slightly surpassed the memory of 128. Then computer shut down. Now when I try to restart I get a black screen with this message:

Intel Pentium III processor 450 MHz
128MB System RAM Passed

So, is there a way for me to delete something that I downloaded and get back into the cpu? I think that its probably overloading the CPU during the attempt to start up.

Please leave me ur pokerstars id so I can transfer.

Thank you,

Indy

[icepick]

I'm assuming you mean you have 128 Megs of ram. Installing office will have nothing to do with your ram.

Something else is wrong with your computer. PS name is Bramor. $10 plz.

[Indiana]

Ok. But Why would it say memory surpassed? Should I reformat the harddrive? If so how do I do this?

Indy

[icepick]

My guess would be that the 128 megs of memory passed the self test.

Does it even attempt to boot? Can you boot into safe mode? Can you boot from a floppy or CD? If so, can you access your c: drive?

If you want to format it, boot off your Windows CD (You do have one, right?), and install. There will be an option there to format.

[Indiana]

When I put in the CD or disk and start the cpu i get the same memory surpassed message and no options to continue.

Indy

[icepick]

Check your BIOS options for a boot drive order. Usually it'll default to trying to boot off the hard drive first. Change that to cd and try again.

[Indiana]

Bios options? What exactly are you saying?

Indy

[icepick]

When you boot, does it say something like "Press Del to configure" or something? If not, check your manual if you have one.

You're drawing slim for a solution.

[Indiana]

Yes! It says hit delete to enter SETUP. I hit delete, it says entering setup but then just sits there forever.

Indy

[icepick]

The river came, and your draw missed. Time to fold.

Congrats on your new paperweight.

[Indiana]

Seriously? So my CPU is dead? I've had it for 5 years.

Dam Dell.

Indy

[icepick]

Try tech support.

[Indiana]

What's your opinion? SHould I trash this? Dell Tech Support will take me 5 hrs., hardly worth it.

Indy

[whodaman]

email dell.. they take a little bit to get back to you but they replaced my dvd-rw in a day (it was under warranty)

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I have an older 2001 Dell XPS 450. I tried to download Microsoft office on it and slightly surpassed the memory of 128. Then computer shut down. Now when I try to restart I get a black screen with this message:

Intel Pentium III processor 450 MHz
128MB System RAM Passed

So, is there a way for me to delete something that I downloaded and get back into the cpu? I think that its probably overloading the CPU during the attempt to start up.

Please leave me ur pokerstars id so I can transfer.

Thank you,

Indy

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It sounds like a motherboard, CPU or memory failure. This is a hardware problem, not a software one. You should just trash this PC if it's not under warranty (and I assume it's not based on the age). It's not worth the time or money to fix a PC worth a couple hundred bucks.

-dustyn

[Indiana]

Thanks guys. Bromar gets $10. dustyn $5. dustyn what is your stars id?

Indy

My stars ID is shang111. Hey thanks.