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by awarner 1 view

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I have an old generic Pentium 100Mhz with 64 Megs of ram, a 540 Meg HD and a 2 meg ATI PCI video card. These are the ONLY items in the PC. I have installed NT Workstation 4.0 which works just great. After it's done installing, it indicates Serivce Pack 1 (which is what is on the install CD). So I applied SP6a and when it reboots, it still says SP1. After the Ctrl-Alt-Del log in, I get "an error has occured in SPOOLS.DLL" but Windows behaves normal after that, just no service pack updates have taken affect. So I formatted and reinstalled NT and tried SP5. Same results. Is there a problem using this old hardware with newer SPs? I even tried NT Server as an experiment and it did the same thing. I have not tried SP3. Thanks for any words of wisdom.

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by vue

I think You are too low on hard drive space that is why the servicepack not completed. I have no problem with my 486/100 computer with 1.2 gb of hard drive. Good luck.

by awarner

Thanks for answering. I had a 4Gb HD on the machine before I thought that maybe that was too big for the BIOS and installed a 540Meg. With only 60Megs used on the drive, I don't think the SP would run out of room.

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