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| 346111 | 2005-04-17 19:43:00 | Just an interesting note: Revived an old pc I rescued from the mothers garage yesterday. Had a Pentium MMX 166 Hrtz with 64MB's of RAM and a a 4GB hard drive in it. :dogeye: Just to see if it would work I loaded XP home into it and surprise!, it worked. After disabling a few things in "Services", to get it to run a bit lighter, I managed to get to idle at 54MB in task manager. :thumbs: Just that when it is actually used for something, it tends to take its time. :( But the kids can play spider/solitare ok on it :lol: Paint runs ok too. But anything intensive really bogs it down Maybe I should have just brought a deck of cards from the dairy.... |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 346112 | 2005-04-17 20:29:00 | What's the minimum requirement for installing XP Home on a computer? Seems that older and older computer can run XP :@@: Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 346113 | 2005-04-17 21:04:00 | Waste of time. For one thing, unless you got that copy of XP for it, its piracy and second its better off with 98 on it - it would run much better - XP will just cause it to struggle. | pctek (84) | ||
| 346114 | 2005-04-17 21:18:00 | Well if its the same version as the one he's using with SP2, and it isnt a corp version . And it hasnt been activated, it wont last long . It'll shut u out after 30 days . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 346115 | 2005-04-17 21:21:00 | Dont worry pctek (MS Double agent?) :D It was just an to see if it would work (expirement), as stated in first post. I used to have 98' on it, but had been sitting around idle for quite a while. I did not plan on keeping XP on it and using it as stated in your post it would be a waste of time as it would stuggle to perform. Either way it was always heading for the local tip. I was just amazed that it would work, albiet barely. |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 346116 | 2005-04-17 21:27:00 | Well if its the same version as the one he's using with SP2, and it isnt a corp version. And it hasnt been activated, it wont last long. It'll shut u out after 30 days. And by then the novelty would of worn off. |
ILikeLinux (1669) | ||
| 346117 | 2005-04-17 21:45:00 | have worn off you mean. Anyway, I'm jealous! I couldn't even get it running on an AMD K-6 :annoyed: |
Edward (31) | ||
| 346118 | 2005-04-18 00:30:00 | Sell it on Trademe!! | pctek (84) | ||
| 346119 | 2005-04-18 00:47:00 | I've had XP Pro running on my P266 MMX laptop (had 272MB RAM tho :D ) | wintertide (1306) | ||
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