Not any XP at all? Can you at least interrupt the boot loader and try to select safe mode or whatever? I'd expect it to die later when the memory manager initializes.
Any chance either stick provides parity? I'm doubting any emachines would pass it on but hey... What's the complete BIOS report for the RAM?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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