11-01-2010, 05:45 AM
(10-30-2010, 12:01 AM)shoju Wrote: They are 1.8ghz dell boxes. They came with windows XP SP2 installed on them. They give me an error when installing that
This system cannot install the selected windows product. For more information, please consult the windows compatibility guide at microsoft.com
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Check your BIOS settings as well. It may be that master boot record protection is on, or you have a Dell system with OS Install Mode still enabled which restricts effective RAM to 256MB.