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I am trying to upgrade the BIOS on an old Emachines 633 before loading WINXP and I get an error that says the flash routine can't proceed with a memory manager present. I've booted the system with the WinME startup disk to a command prompt only. I've looked at the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and CONFIG.SYS and don't see where it is loading HIMEM.SYS but it must be. Any thoughts on how to stop it loading a hi memory manager ??Do you have a link to the info on the BIOS flash ? ?

Many doorstops have been created this way.

If it was a Win ME machine originally XP could be a slow painful experiment.Why do you need the BIOS upgrade before you
install XP ?Hint: Look up the original specs of the machine...i don't think there is a flash powerful enough in the World for this which is why i requested a link...And how about some info on the computer processor, memory, etc. ? I believe that model originally shipped with a Celeron 633 with 64 meg RAM.bios flashes need "clean" boot disks with no memory managers; you can get drdflash.exe which will MAKE a clean boot floppy here

http://www.bootdisk.com/

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To install Windows XP 'Home' or 'Professional' onto your new PC, it will need to meet the following specification:

PC with 300 megahertz (MHz) or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233-MHz minimum required;
(Intel Pentium/Celeron family, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended)
128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended
(64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
1.5 Gigabyte (GB) of available hard disk space
Super VGA (800 × 600) or higher resolution video adapter and monitor
CD-ROM or DVD drive
Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

Systems with this specification (or better) should be capable of running Windows XP successfully.


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eMachines eTower 633irx
REVIEW DATE: 12.19.00
# Celeron/633, 64MB SDRAM, 4MB Intel 810 graphics, 19.5GB hard drive, CD-ROM, CD-RW, $900


Thanks to all who replied. Your help is greatly appreciated. I only wanted to upgrade the BIOS to the latest stuff even though the only thing I've done to this machine is increase the original 32 Meg RAM to 256MB. Loaded WinXP Pro. last night with no problems. Yeah, it's a little slow with a 633 MHz Celron processor but I only use this machine in the summer at my camper in PA for surfing the net, reading E-mail and playing online chess. I also run Knoppix Linux from a bootable CD on this machine to play around with. Eventually I'll go fulltime to Linux once I've learned mmore about it.Quote from: oldrunner55 on June 05, 2007, 01:12:39 PM
Yeah, it's a little slow with a 633 MHz Celron processor

I first used XP with a 750 MHz AMD Duron and it RAN just fine it seemed to me. I went from 256 to 512 MB of RAM but it was certainly useable with 256. People today are so spoiled with all that power...

Edit the CONFIG.SYS on your boot disk. You really PROBABLY don't need anything in your config.sys for flashing your BIOS, but at least take out any lines referencing "himem" or "emm386". Quote from: GuruGary on June 05, 2007, 03:00:27 PM
Edit the CONFIG.SYS on your boot disk.

He already told us it's a CD-ROM


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