I have an older 486 desktop with 256m ram and a Maxtor 80G hard drive.  RECENTLY, I tried to upgrade to xp from 98 and it froze in the middle of it all.  When I REBOOTED, it wouldn't load past the first screen.  The cd-rom and floppy drives spin, but stop and won't load anything.  What could it be, and what can I do to get my system to work again?  Please help...You have a 486 computer with 256MB RAM and an 80GB Maxtor? I seriously doubt any mainboard that supports a 486 processor also supports more than 64MB RAM and a Hard Disk over 1GB..

Trying to pull a leg, are we?I'm just looking for answers to my problem, but yes, it is.  I installed the 80G and higher memory myself, and it all worked fine until now.  My mainboard is generic, and I'd tell you more about it myself if I could GO further, but my bios won't save my hard drive size anyway.  It all worked fine with 98, but xp just stopped it in its tracks.  If nobody can help me, I'll just go through library books myself, but I'm hoping someone out there will be kind enough to take me serious.  thank you. Quote

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