Putting WinXP on a old PC
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big hard drive. Should this work or am I crazy?
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big hard drive. Should this work or am I crazy?
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Re: Putting WinXP on a old PC
You need atleast a 233Mhz. That's the lowest it will run on."Brian Bygland" <brian.REMOVETHIS.bygland@garb-age.boeing.com> wrote in
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> I am considering putting XP Pro on an old Pentium 200 PC with 384 MB RAMand a
> big hard drive. Should this work or am I crazy?
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> Brian
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Re: Putting WinXP on a old PC
HiThe RAM is OK, but the CPU is under powered for XP - the following is a bare minimum for running XP:
"System Requirements for Windows XP Operating Systems"
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
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> I am considering putting XP Pro on an old Pentium 200 PC with 384 MB RAM and a
> big hard drive. Should this work or am I crazy?
>
> Brian
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Re: Putting WinXP on a old PC
Brian Bygland:You're crazy :-)
Windows XP Home Edition System Requirements
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/h...on/sysreqs.asp
Windows XP Professional Edition System Requirements
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...on/sysreqs.asp
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> I am considering putting XP Pro on an old Pentium 200 PC with 384 MB RAMand a
> big hard drive. Should this work or am I crazy?
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> Brian
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Re: Putting WinXP on a old PC
In news:3F846A6D.11168D1C@garb-age.boeing.com,Brian Bygland <brian.REMOVETHIS.bygland@garb-age.boeing.com>
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> I am considering putting XP Pro on an old Pentium 200 PC with384 MB
> RAM and a big hard drive. Should this work or am I crazy?
The official minimum CPU speed is 233MHX. Whether it will work at
all, I'm not sure, but if so it will certainly perform very
poorly. Usually you need to go well above official minimums for
adequate perfromance.
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Re: Putting WinXP on a old PC
For test purposes I set up XP Pro some time ago as a clean install on areformatted drive on an old IBM PC 133MHZ and 64MB RAM and it worked almost
ok. It was very slow and took forever to boot up but the minmum system
requirement did not prevent it from installing. I would be interested to see
how it performs with a better RAM and a slightly higher processor. If you
dare do it then let us know how it goes.
Eric
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> I am considering putting XP Pro on an old Pentium 200 PC with 384 MB RAMand a
> big hard drive. Should this work or am I crazy?
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> Brian
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Eric wrote:> For test purposes I set up XP Pro some time ago as a clean install on aThanks everyone. I pretty much thought that it was crazy. When I get my next PC
> reformatted drive on an old IBM PC 133MHZ and 64MB RAM and it worked almost
> ok. It was very slow and took forever to boot up but the minmum system
> requirement did not prevent it from installing. I would be interested to see
> how it performs with a better RAM and a slightly higher processor. If you
> dare do it then let us know how it goes.
>
> Eric
>
> "Brian Bygland" <brian.REMOVETHIS.bygland@garb-age.boeing.com> wrote in
> message news:3F846A6D.11168D1C@garb-age.boeing.com...> > I am considering putting XP Pro on an old Pentium 200 PC with 384 MB RAM> and a> > big hard drive. Should this work or am I crazy?
> >
> > Brian
in a few month and this one become surplus, I might give it a try just to see
what happens.
Brian
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Re: Putting WinXP on a old PC
The RAM is acceptable, but the CPU is not enough for XP"System Requirements for Windows XP Operating Systems"
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
My suggested minimum requirements:
a.. Pentium 2 600-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster
b.. At least 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM (256 MB is recommended)
c.. At least 5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk
d.. CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
e.. Keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse or some other compatible pointing
device
f.. Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (800 x 600)or higher
resolution
g.. Sound card
h.. Speakers or headphones
My suggested specs:
a.. Pentium 3 - 1 GHz processor or faster
b.. At least 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM (512 MB is the best)
c.. At least 20 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk
d.. CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
e.. Keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse or some other compatible pointing
device
f.. Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (1024x768) or higher
resolution
g.. Sound card
h.. Speakers or headphones
i.. 2 USB ports
j.. Ethernet
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"Brian Bygland" <brian.REMOVETHIS.bygland@garb-age.boeing.com> wrote in
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> I am considering putting XP Pro on an old Pentium 200 PC with 384 MB RAMand a
> big hard drive. Should this work or am I crazy?
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> Brian
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Re: Putting WinXP on a old PC
It will run. I've installed XP to a P-200 with 128MB RAM. Turn off alleyecandy.
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> I am considering putting XP Pro on an old Pentium 200 PC with 384 MB RAMand a
> big hard drive. Should this work or am I crazy?
>
> Brian
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