Error message

I am trying to load Win XP onto an older machine. It is a Asus motherboard P5A flashed to the latest bios. When it boots to the WinXP CD, I get this message:

no emulation system type - (00)

The CD starts to load, when it gets to Windows Setup (right after it passes the part about F6 key) it stops.

Thanks

HI!
I thing your motherboard is very older. Windows XP use motherboard builder
at 2002 to up. It's necessary more RAM, more ROM, good processor, etc,etc,
space on your HD. Windows XP is a program heavy and need a good motherboard.
This my opinion



"TM" <TM@mail.com> escreveu na notícia da
mensagem:O$aeY#XdIHA.6092@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> I am trying to load Win XP onto an older machine. It is a Asus motherboard
> P5A flashed to the latest bios. When it boots to the WinXP CD, I get this
> message:
>
> no emulation system type - (00)
>
> The CD starts to load, when it gets to Windows Setup (right after it
> passes the part about F6 key) it stops.
>
> Thanks

Thanks for the reply.
The motherboard uses an AMD K6-2 500 and has 256 M of RAM and a 10 G hard drive. Anyone know if this is sufficient for Win XP?


"ALVARO DE CASTRO VASCONCELLOS" <vasconcellos_59@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1E360A1F-03F8-4F19-A10F-D64BCD6D1C88@microsoft.com...
> HI!
> I thing your motherboard is very older. Windows XP use motherboard builder
> at 2002 to up. It's necessary more RAM, more ROM, good processor, etc,etc,
> space on your HD. Windows XP is a program heavy and need a good motherboard.
> This my opinion
>
>
>
> "TM" <TM@mail.com> escreveu na notícia da
> mensagem:O$aeY#XdIHA.6092@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> I am trying to load Win XP onto an older machine. It is a Asus motherboard
>> P5A flashed to the latest bios. When it boots to the WinXP CD, I get this
>> message:
>>
>> no emulation system type - (00)
>>
>> The CD starts to load, when it gets to Windows Setup (right after it
>> passes the part about F6 key) it stops.
>>
>> Thanks
>

TM wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
> The motherboard uses an AMD K6-2 500 and has 256 M of RAM and a 10 G hard
> drive. Anyone know if this is sufficient for Win XP?

Possibly you could get XP installed (it will depend on the BIOS of that
extremely elderly motherboard), but it's performance will s*ck Big Time.
Add at least another 256MB for 512MB of RAM and use a 40GB hard drive.
Personally, I wouldn't recommend upgrading that machine.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

I was doing this for an out of work friend. He only wanted it as a backup because his daughter always screws up the main computer. He would like it for e-mail and web browsing. I thought it would be easy, but never ran into this error message.


"Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:eIksRQbdIHA.4696@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> TM wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>> The motherboard uses an AMD K6-2 500 and has 256 M of RAM and a 10 G hard
>> drive. Anyone know if this is sufficient for Win XP?
>
> Possibly you could get XP installed (it will depend on the BIOS of that
> extremely elderly motherboard), but it's performance will s*ck Big Time.
> Add at least another 256MB for 512MB of RAM and use a 40GB hard drive.
> Personally, I wouldn't recommend upgrading that machine.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> Don't Panic!

TM wrote:

> I was doing this for an out of work friend. He only wanted it as a backup
> because his daughter always screws up the main computer. He would like it
> for e-mail and web browsing. I thought it would be easy, but never ran
> into this error message.

You might put Peanut Linux on it or one of the very tiny stripped down Linux
distros that don't require much processing power. Other than that, I don't
have any recommendations for that machine (except to send it to that great
Silicon Heaven In The Sky).

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

I see stripped down basic computers for sale at $299 or so regularly.
probably not much more than you will pay to upgrade that old clunker.



mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com



"TM" <TM@mail.com> wrote in message news:%23SVr2gcdIHA.1376@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
I was doing this for an out of work friend. He only wanted it as a backup because his daughter always screws up the main computer. He would like it for e-mail and web browsing. I thought it would be easy, but never ran into this error message.


"Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:eIksRQbdIHA.4696@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> TM wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>> The motherboard uses an AMD K6-2 500 and has 256 M of RAM and a 10 G hard
>> drive. Anyone know if this is sufficient for Win XP?
>
> Possibly you could get XP installed (it will depend on the BIOS of that
> extremely elderly motherboard), but it's performance will s*ck Big Time.
> Add at least another 256MB for 512MB of RAM and use a 40GB hard drive.
> Personally, I wouldn't recommend upgrading that machine.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> Don't Panic!

TM wrote:
> I am trying to load Win XP onto an older machine. It is a Asus motherboard P5A flashed to the latest bios. When it boots to the WinXP CD, I get this message:
>
> no emulation system type - (00)
>
> The CD starts to load, when it gets to Windows Setup (right after it passes the part about F6 key) it stops.
>
> Thanks

Windows XP runs ok on my six-year old Dell laptop with 256 mb as long as
I don't run multiple programs together. I think a 10 gb hard drive is
pretty tight, although the operating system will certainly fit there.

Cheap replacements abound, as others have pointed out.

Bill

It turns out the RAM was not seated. I ran MEMTEST and it failed immediately. Removed the RAM and ran it one at a time, they passed. Reinstalled both sticks and WinXP loaded. I still had the message, no emulation system type - (00), but it must have been unrelated.

Thanks

"TM" <TM@mail.com> wrote in message news:O$aeY%23XdIHA.6092@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
I am trying to load Win XP onto an older machine. It is a Asus motherboard P5A flashed to the latest bios. When it boots to the WinXP CD, I get this message:

no emulation system type - (00)

The CD starts to load, when it gets to Windows Setup (right after it passes the part about F6 key) it stops.

Thanks

"TM" <TM@mail.com> wrote in message
news:OUgW1lvdIHA.544@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
It turns out the RAM was not seated. I ran MEMTEST and it failed
immediately. Removed the RAM and ran it one at a time, they passed.
Reinstalled both sticks and WinXP loaded. I still had the message, no
emulation system type - (00), but it must have been unrelated.

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