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

[Bryan J. Smith]

Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> 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.

I have installed Windows 2000 on 64MiB (never tried 32MiB), but it
ran like crap.  I've always run it on at least 256MiB (and was
typically sorry).

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

It's probably some PCMCIA and/or ISA PnP hardware, which was typical
in the 486/Pentium era of notebooks.



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