upgrading fm win 98 to winxp

[prince_hall_58]

i have a old compaq 5030 that have win 98 on it im trying to
upgrade it to win xp pro or xp hm edt but when i install winxp
hm i get a mesg that say the I/O device is missing and when
i try installing xp pro i get a mesg that say the acpi file
is corrupt some one had told me to update my bios ? can anyone
help with this plz

thank you

prince_hall_58
p.s e-mail
prince_hall_58@yahoo.com




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[Rich Barry]

In my opinion, your compaq 5030 may be too old to upgrade to WinXP.
Even newer
Linux Distros would have trouble.
"prince_hall_58" <prince_hall_58.1a06f2c@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
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> i have a old compaq 5030 that have win 98 on it im trying to
> upgrade it to win xp pro or xp hm edt but when i install winxp
> hm i get a mesg that say the I/O device is missing and when
> i try installing xp pro i get a mesg that say the acpi file
> is corrupt some one had told me to update my bios ? can anyone
> help with this plz
>
> thank you
>
> prince_hall_58
> p.s e-mail
> prince_hall_58@yahoo.com
>
>
>
>
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> prince_hall_58