Can win2k be ran with 48mb ram?

[Twista]

Well my question is in the message title.]

Thanks

 

[spyordie007]

yes it will run, but it will be painfully slow to do much of anything in it

 

[RussianSoldier]

I run a few P2 266's with 128mb/ram, and they take about 12 minutes to fully start up to the logon screen, and another 5 to completely log in...

 

[MichaelD]

According to Microsoft, W2K requires a minimum of 64MB of ram in order to even load up. 128MB is the "recommended amount."

 

[RussianSoldier]

well, i've run some with only 64, and those were even slower...

 

[spyordie007]

I've run Win 2k on a p 133 w/ 40MB of RAM. It'll run, but like I said it will be painfully slow.

 

[Twista]

My friends getting cable modem and hes not pc sawvy. He prob has like a p1 200mhz 48mb, windows 98 machine. He has aol but is getting cable soon. Hes had 48mb of ram and i feel sorry for him. He also thought cable modem was going to speed up his pc ( alot of ppl thought this sadly) Well hope he has fun with that slow computer.. loi i might referr him to the second hand store to get one of thoses computers.

Spyd. What was your avg login on that laptop you mention

Thanks

 

[NogginBoink]

I believe it will run on 48MB but will not install on a machine with 48MB RAM.

Get this friend of yours an early birthday present. Buy him some RAM.

 

[spyordie007]

I've run Win 2k on a p 133 w/ 40MB of RAM

Spyd. What was your avg login on that laptop you mention

I'm assuming you're talking to me? It wasnt a laptop, it was an old IBM desktop system that we used as a crashbox. We rarely rebooted (always just left it logged in and running) but I'd wager it took somewhere in the neiboorhood of 5-8min. to get you to the login screen and another 5 to log in and finish loading.

I believe it will run on 48MB but will not install on a machine with 48MB RAM.

I know for sure that SP2 and earlier will actually allow you to install it on a machine with 32MB of RAM. I'm not sure about SP3 and later...

Get this friend of yours an early birthday present. Buy him some RAM.

Agreed, or better yet get him a new computer.

-Erik

 

[Chaotic42]

I ran W2K Pro on a P133 with 32MB of memory.

I don't recommend it.

 

[spyordie007]

I know for sure that SP2 and earlier will actually allow you to install it on a machine with 32MB of RAM. I'm not sure about SP3 and later...

Actually now that I think about it I tried to do a Win 2K SP4 install on an old P100 laptop w/ 32MB of RAM in hopes that it would make an okay video switcher controller. I ended up giving up on it when I stared the install one day and let it sit than came back the next and it still hadnt finished...

 

[magomago]

12 minutes? lordy....

I have a 233mhz pentium w/ 64 megs of ram and it has win2kpro on it and its just fine...slightly slow (bootup is 3-4 min) but its a great system

 

[vegetation]

I got win2k on a p166 with 64mb. Runs my weather station software and small web server with php (light duty). Works great. I even do a little web browsing when I'm at the station from time to time and don't notice any speed problems. System does have a modern 120gb hard drive though, so I'm sure that helps speed the swap file along quite a bit.

 

[boran]

I would keep win98 on there, win2K will be painfully slow.