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I have an Inspiron 1200, and I'm trying to put XP Home back onto it, but when I get to the point right before I put it on, it shuts off. Also, before I had to clear the harddrive, the notebook would load until the XP logo would go off, then it would shut off. Help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

chaistt · Answer

Try reseating memory modules. If not it could be your motherboard.

chaistt · Answer

will it boot from hard drive successfully without going off? You could try running the dell diags however only if thats already on the hard drive. I know that older inpirons like my own have to boot onto cd in order to run the diags but newer ones with a recovery partition may not need a cd.

chaistt · Answer

hmm, i'm not sure then. I would try another CD if not just get dell to look at it.

irkorn18 · Answer

Alright, I'll try that, but it only turns off if I'm trying to boot from a cd, I can boot from a floppy, does that have to do with anything?

irkorn18 · Answer

no, there's nothing on my HD, so it can't boot off of it, I mean't that it will boot from the floppy drive, then when I try to boot from cd, then that's when it shuts off.

irkorn18 · Answer

I just figured out that it says that there is a missing, or bad file on line 15 of command.com

irkorn18 · Answer

I finally got to where I can almost setup Windows 98(I still can't get XP at all), and now it comes up and tells me that setup requires 7340032 bytes of space, when I have 15 gigs available. any help?

chaistt · Answer

If you are having problems like that, it is more than likely that there are more serious problems which may not ba able to be resolved unless there are hardware changes. (i.e repairs carried out). The reason why Win98 will not work may because your current hard drive is formatted using the NTFS file system which win98, win ME, win95 and DOS cannot read, so understandably, the computer will report that there is no space on the drive when there actually is. So you can only use Win XP or 2000 on an NTFS partition. If you wipe your machine there is no reason why the machine should have a problem with the command.com file as the drive is blank.

chaistt · Answer

No probs glad to have helped. About your battery, that will need replacing, its at the end of its life span. Its very common for that to happen after a while (happened to me about 3 times over 5 years). If you are still within the 1st year of warranty Dell will replace the battery free of charge.

irkorn18 · Answer

no, my warranty is up on it, I'll prolly just buy another battery, that's no biggie

irkorn18 · Answer

hey man, thanks for all of your help, I finally went into a lot of setting, and messed around some more, and I finally got XP on it, now the only problem with it, is that I can only run on my battery for about 2 minutes, fully charged, before it turns off. So, hopefully somehow I can get it to be right.

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