I got lucky....at an estate sale I bought a big box of computer stuff, including four Thinkpad 600s. Each was marked "N/G cooling fan". Sure enough none would boot. All came up with error 192. Well that error code also means a few other things including a bad cmos battery. And the things would not remember the BIOS time setting. So I bought a few small remote batteries (same part # 2025), rigged them up....and now I have four working laptops. PII-233, 130mb ram, 3gb HDs.
They are all brand new, but have pass-word protection, so I did a format on one, and installed XP Pro. In this box of computer stuff was a lot of un-opened software. The story I got was this guy owned a business that went belly-up, and took all this stuff home a few years ago.
Here's what I learned.....XP pro will install and run just fine on these machines. It seems like with a smaller HD, it doesn't require as much space as with a big drive. After the basic XP install, with restore turned off, it used about 1.2gb. With SP2 and all possible updates to the present.....it uses about 2.0gb.
I am somewhat amazed at this....but it does prove XP can run on slower/older machines. XP installed every necessary driver....and everything works, works well enough I may upgrade to a bigger HD on the one I'll probably use. My old Thinkpad is a P-90......these are much better. (One of the main batteries is still good
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They are all brand new, but have pass-word protection, so I did a format on one, and installed XP Pro. In this box of computer stuff was a lot of un-opened software. The story I got was this guy owned a business that went belly-up, and took all this stuff home a few years ago.
Here's what I learned.....XP pro will install and run just fine on these machines. It seems like with a smaller HD, it doesn't require as much space as with a big drive. After the basic XP install, with restore turned off, it used about 1.2gb. With SP2 and all possible updates to the present.....it uses about 2.0gb.
I am somewhat amazed at this....but it does prove XP can run on slower/older machines. XP installed every necessary driver....and everything works, works well enough I may upgrade to a bigger HD on the one I'll probably use. My old Thinkpad is a P-90......these are much better. (One of the main batteries is still good
)
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