Difficulties upgrading my RAM
I am trying to increase the RAM on my PC with not much success. It is a Dell Dimension XPS T series built in 2000 with a Pentium 3 processor (700 MHz) and 128mb of RAM. There are 2 spare memory slots and, according to crucial.com and powerleap.com system scans, the machine can take a total of 768Mhz of RAM.
I have tried 2 different recommended 256mb memory cards (SDRAM, DIMM, PC100, non-parity etc etc), and neither will allow the machine to start up.
With each card I get the following message.
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: system32\Drivers\pci.sys
Taking out the 256Mb card and with only the original 128Mb card, the machine starts fine. So for some reason, the machine doesn't like the new 256Mb card.
Has anyone seen this before, or knows what is happening?
More importantly, is there anything I can do to fix it and get this card working in the machine?