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| Thread ID: 59542 | 2005-07-05 06:30:00 | XP Home install troubles. | waimaks (6990) | Press F1 |
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| 369625 | 2005-07-05 21:41:00 | As the others have said, forget the XP dream..... go back to Win 98. 64MB is the minimum recommended for XP but it will run really sloooooooooooooowly and may even crash a lot |
Myth (110) | ||
| 369626 | 2005-07-06 05:10:00 | Thanks for the replys everyone, now i just need my good friend to find the 98 discs. | waimaks (6990) | ||
| 369627 | 2005-07-06 06:54:00 | I have seen xp running on a 500Mhz with 64mb ram and would suggest you forget that idea completely........what you are trying to do is similar to putting a large truck body onto a small van engine............your engine is too small for the load........you need 256mb ram to run xp *reasonably*.....yes i'tll run on 128 but very slow to open programs etc......how big is the harddrive ?......xp in and of itself takes about 1.5gb of space......often it amuses me how folks think xp may cure all their problems but they simply dont seem to bother checking into the requirements much at all........I mean to say.....how many pc's have you seen running xp wiht say a 1ghz cpu and 256mb ram and still struggling a bit.......then you tell me you want to install it onto a 500mhz with only 64mb ram......*sigh* you need to do a bit more research lol............ Funny you should say that, my sister's got a celeron 1ghz cpu with 256ram, running xp pro. And yep, it is struggling a little, so slow! And yet my friend has a p3 700, 256ram, xp pro and runs fine. |
Sleepy (7202) | ||
| 369628 | 2005-07-06 06:59:00 | I've setup XP on several smaller machines from a 450/256 to a 700 and they run fine if you turn off all the eye candy and unnecessary background services. | bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 369629 | 2005-07-06 07:03:00 | So what is the lowest one should go when recommending someone to upgrade to xp home/pro cpu? & ram? and would the speed of the hard drive have anything to do with it being slow? | Sleepy (7202) | ||
| 369630 | 2005-07-06 07:45:00 | I've ran XP on a K6-2 500mhz machine with 384mb RAM. It didn't run too bad. I put XP on my parent's celeron 1.8Ghz when it had 128mb RAM, and it was so horrible that they upgraded to 256mb. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 369631 | 2005-07-06 07:58:00 | I recomend an 800mhz cpu and at least 256mb of ram,you can get away with slower cpu's but she will chug, less ram and shes like wading through concrete . Thats not to say it won't run, but when the hardware can;t run the OS at full speed then the entire system sucks . As for the harddrive? Yes, It can slow it down, amy slow component will affect the overall performance, The system I am on at the moment is a Celeray 900mhz,196 pc100 ram,and a 5400rpm harddrive,Running Win98, . . . its an out and out pile of junk, every time it has to access the harddrive the damn thing stalls . Crap cpu,crap ram,crap harddrive and being a filthy Dell its bound to have a craptastic motherboard as well . Putting XP on it would be a joke . I might point out that the HD i used to resuruct the system came from my pile of really crap harddrives that I should probally throw away but might come in usefull oneday . . . . . Muhahahahah |
Metla (12) | ||
| 369632 | 2005-07-06 08:08:00 | Ive just finished constructing a 400MHz Celeron based XP Home machine with 192 MB RAM (best thing, it didn't cost a cent - picked up mobo, PSU, Floppy, and midi tower for free, already had CPU and RAM as well as O/S :D) Not the fastest thing in the world, but it'll do for now. Will increase the RAM to 256 for better results. |
Myth (110) | ||
| 369633 | 2005-07-06 08:17:00 | Well going back to how my sisters 1ghz celeron, 256RAM pc is running slow, could the powersupply affect performance? Noticed it was covered with dust, unsure if there was a case fan on the back but that was clogged with dust too. I guess its about 4-5years old so its probalary time for an upgrade, although everything will need replacing eventually. | Sleepy (7202) | ||
| 369634 | 2005-07-06 08:19:00 | Ive just finished constructing a 400MHz Celeron based XP Home machine with 192 MB RAM (best thing, it didn't cost a cent - picked up mobo, PSU, Floppy, and midi tower for free, already had CPU and RAM as well as O/S :D) Not the fastest thing in the world, but it'll do for now. Will increase the RAM to 256 for better results. Aye where did you pick up all those things free? |
Sleepy (7202) | ||
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