Desperately need some help with this XP PRO setup. HELP!!

[thatsright]

This is my current Hardware setup:

P3 Slot 1 @ 750Mhz?100MHZ FSB
512MB SDRAM at 100mhz
60Gig HD @ 7200Rpm
Abit BH6 MB that is 4 years old
Riva TNT2 video card with 16MB Ram

Okay I have both Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro. Right now I have Windows 98, but I would like to install XP Pro.

Do you think that my current hardware setup will run XP Pro without any major performance slowdown. I have installed W2K pro before and the PC actually speed up a bit, but now I?d like to install XP Pro for the stability over 98. I could still install W2K Pro, but I?d rather go with XP Pro.

Any sugestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot

 

[RalfHutter]

First, go to MS and make sure your hardware is compatible with XP, especially your MoBo and Video card.

XP CD is bootable. Reset boot sequence in BIOS to boot from CD, put XP CD in CDrom drive and reboot. Install will commence.

XP install will format your drive for you (when prompted), you don't have to Fdisk or format first.

Choose "NTFS" file system if you're not going to be dual-booting with Win9x.

After install delete all the eye-candy. This is all turned on by default and makes XP run pretty slow. Also turn off Hibernation Support unless you really need it. It creates a file on your HDD the size of your RAM. Wasted space if you don't use it.

Go to Windows Update and download all the Critical Updates (or maybe consider downloading the entire 133MB Service Pack 1, it has all kinds of patches and driver update).

Enjoy.