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whoa.. holdon... did you just say it has windows millennium on it??? if so, that's the majority of your problems right there....
Windows millennium was the bastard child of Microsoft.. they were too insecure with windows 98, and weren't ready for windows 2k to make a full impact.. so they combined the stuff they had written for 2k and the stuff they already had for 98, and lo and behold.... MILLENNIUM was born... (Often called Windows ME)... ME was a bastard because it kept having internal conflicts with itself when software was concerned... The 2k side would tell it to install one way, and the 98 part of it would tell it something different... so you really had to know your shit in order to install things on the machine with any success..... and even with us 'pros'.... it still would have a conflict about a quarter of the time anyhow....
I had a ME machine... I dumped ME quickly when I found up they stopped making updates for it... I tried to jump to windows 2k, and THAT was a mistake... it literally ATE ALL MY DRIVERS.... I installed XP a few days later, and everything was OK for a little while... (till the machine died)...
There could be lots of reasons why the old XP machine you had stopped working... however, I'd not be able to tell you what they were without looking at them... perhaps you blew out the video card.... perhaps you frayed a wire inside the machine... who knows....
One thing's for sure, your memory DID die... memory is not hard to install, but getting the CORRECT kind of memory is essential... you'll have to actually open the machine up if you're doing it yourself and get some info off of your current machine... (or, alternately, you can take the serial number off the back of the machine, go to the manufacturer website, and put the serial number into the search field.. sometimes you get lucky and it'll tell you your stats on the memory)... Memory is really a quick install, but sometimes can be hampered by the fact that a lot of the manufacturers tend to try to put ten pounds of shit into a five pound case... there's usually two thumb locks on the memory stick (one on each side) and the memory slides in and out (only one way to do it.. there's a notch in the bottom of the chip itself to show you where/how to allign it), and it just kinda snaps in place....
so, yeah.. sounds like your memory got fucked up... Virus, perhaps? *shrugs* if you resurrect your old machine, DEFINATELY run a virus scan on it... you can use an online one like Bitdefender or something close to that... Trendmicro is a good one to, but it's kinda getting a little sloppy lately because of the overpopularity of it...
any more questions, feel free to find me if you can get a chat program up and running... I've got AIM, MSN, and yahoo at the moment... PM me for the details on those if you wish...
