[Pc_Support] "Not enough resources" on fresh Windows 2000 install?

[Jason Boxman]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> Damien McKenna <dmckenna at thelimucompany.com> wrote:
> > I've just installed Windows 2000 with SP4 on a laptop and I'm
> > getting the following error for the video and PC-Card slots:
> > This Device Cannot Find Enough Free Resources That It Can Use
> > The laptop is an old Winbook GoBook Lite with a Pentium MMX and
> > 64mb of RAM.
> 
> You are really pushing the requirements on NT5+ (2000+) with only
> 64MiB.  256MiB is really the recommended minimum.  I'd verify that
> number except I've loaned out _all_ my 70-218 books.  ;->

Actually I have a Dell Inspiron 3800 with a deal SoDIMM slot.  I thought 
it was my 128MB module, so I ran with 32MB for a while while waiting for a 
new 128MB module to arrive.

Windows 2000 SP3 ran, but wow was it nearly 100% useless.  Did manage to 
get it to play back XviD, though. :)