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14-11-2007, 17:20

Hi,
I have been asked for help in reinstalling windows xp on a friends comp.
It is a Dell about six years old and came with XP the system is full of viruses and spyware but not much user stuff - pics etc - so i adv her to copy the pics to a usb disc which has but when she tries to install xp she gets an error that says she needs to upgrade the BIOS as it is to old to take XP but she already has XP on it?
She has tried the recovery partition and a copy of XP but it says the same thing
I won't be able to get down til the beginning of december so I can't get the full system specs but I do know it has a 20gb hdd 512mb mem and a 750ish processor.
Does anyone have any general info on what to get her to try til I go down as I haave never come across this before.

14-11-2007, 17:20	#1
dgardner Guest Posts: n/a	instaall XP on aa Dell Hi, I have been asked for help in reinstalling windows xp on a friends comp. It is a Dell about six years old and came with XP the system is full of viruses and spyware but not much user stuff - pics etc - so i adv her to copy the pics to a usb disc which has but when she tries to install xp she gets an error that says she needs to upgrade the BIOS as it is to old to take XP but she already has XP on it? She has tried the recovery partition and a copy of XP but it says the same thing I won't be able to get down til the beginning of december so I can't get the full system specs but I do know it has a 20gb hdd 512mb mem and a 750ish processor. Does anyone have any general info on what to get her to try til I go down as I haave never come across this before.