hmmm...
I'll go back to that issue in a few minutes. I'm still trying to figure out if one of my new RAM chips is bad.
when I put The new one that I think is good in with the old chip that I thought was good and boot up, hitting F10 to enter the BIOS set up, it shows just over 1GB of RAM.
Thinking I had something there, I took out the old chip and put it the other new one - so now both of them are in there - and I hit F10 and it says I only have 896MB or RAM? How did it go down if one of the chips in there is the good one?
.... hold on...
ok, I fliped the chips. I think they load the memory in order by slot it would seem. So I put the good chip on top, it loads compleatly, and the bad chip (which it seems only works at 86% proficiancy) on the bottom which loads next. Now I've got both chips in AND I CAN LOAD WINDOWS!!!!
"my computer" says I have 1.87GB installed. So that second chip (on the bottom) sucks. But it sure is better then the .33GB I had before.
Still having the above stated problem though with the registry.
Then, its trying to install "HP Photo Gallery" for some reason... no matter how many times you click "cancel" it just keeps giving error messages until you ctrl+alt+del and end the installer in the processes.
Oh, and this latest time, windows asked me to activate windows, as if it were the first time I used it :-(
this is all seriously F'd up.