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Ok, this is gotta be the lamest "Help Me!" thread out there!!!

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GodzillaX

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Here goes....

My main computer is a p4-2.4ghz with all the dressings 😛 and thankfully, it runs fine.
Recently I received an old Compaq Pentium 1-166 w/ 16mb of ram and a faulty cd-rom. (err *shrug*)

Well, I was going to fix it up and get it internet worthy so that my son would have a way to play his "Thomas the TankEngine" games.

I bought a netgear card off a friend and was about to install it when I remembered Win95(which is on the Compaq) is needed to install drivers..(the CD that is).

Sooo, I tried to install WinXp which I recently bought a copy of, and what happens... Error Message. WinXp needs 64 mbs of ram to run, min. requirement.

So now I can't install a newer OS, I don't have a Win95 CD, and the Network Card isn't installing itself 😛

What do I do!? Does anyone even HAVE win95 anymore? 😛 Anything things I haven't tried yet, any suggestion!? Plz help! 🙂
 
windows 95 was available on both floppies and CDROM. I don't think you'd be too happy with windows 98 on 16megs of ram. I would suggest that you scour ebay for a copy of win95. Thing is that microsoft has officially dropped support for windows 95 making it their orphaned OS. It's hard to get a hold of. Good luck.
 
well, if you can spare $15 you can get an additional 64 MB of ram off eBay, then run WinXP.
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ON A PENTIUM 166!? NO WAY! No. But seriously, if windows xp is the only legitimate licence of windows that you own you're out of luck. There's no way to get that working feasably on a 166. No way. If you plan on staying on the legal side of the fence you're going to have to get a legit copy of windows 95 or upgrade your ram and get a legit copy of windows 98.
 
If your compaq has a modem, use that with one of the free ISPs (er, they do still exist???.. not sure).

I doubt if the lil' guy needs much bandwidth.
 
I doubt XP has hosed your Win95 installation. The setup program should have noticed that you were lacking in memory and aborted then before it overwrote any critical information. Have you tried rebooting into Win95 to see if it will work? If so, scour the hard drive for .CAB files. Since it's a Compaq, they might have put the Win95 .CAB files onto the hard drive to eliminate the need to put the floppy/CD back in when new drivers, etc., were installed. If they are there, you can probably find drivers for your card at www.netgear.com.

If all else fails, and you need a copy of Win95, ask your friends to see if any have it laying around. Or you can PM me; I've probably got a few legally licensed copies that are collecting dust.
 
With no money, Linux may be an option. I just installed Redhat 8 and it seems pretty stable. Will defintely be internet worthy, plus, check the 'wine' project to see if it could run 'Thomas the Tank Engine'.

No matter what OS you go with, some additional RAM is a must! Even with 98 go for 64 MB at least. Of course, at 166 Mhz, well... you'll need some extra patience as well 🙂.

-- Joel
 
ON A PENTIUM 166!? NO WAY! No. But seriously, if windows xp is the only legitimate licence of windows that you own you're out of luck. There's no way to get that working feasably on a 166. No way. If you plan on staying on the legal side of the fence you're going to have to get a legit copy of windows 95 or upgrade your ram and get a legit copy of windows 98.
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I was at a friend's house running a WinXP beta version (this guy was a former Microsoft employee) and it was blazing away on a Pentium 100.

A P-166 should run WinXP fine as long as it has lots of memory to back it up.
 
Originally posted by: Tanked<br

I was at a friend's house running a WinXP beta version (this guy was a former Microsoft employee) and it was blazing away on a Pentium 100.

A P-166 should run WinXP fine as long as it has lots of memory to back it up.
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You serious, Tanked? How much memory are we talking here, 512MB+? My own WinXP system is on an XP1900 proc with 512MB. With my background apps, it takes up over 200MB of RAM on a fresh boot! But on a system with only a T-bird 733MHz (700, modded to 133MHz bus), it is sluggish, even with 512MB RAM. Was this a bare minimum install that was on a P100? Or was it sarcasm? 😉 (no offense if it wasn't)

As for Win9x, you can probably still get it on the FS forums, as someone recommended.
Ah, like right here. Probably are others too, that's just the first result I found. Later versions of Win95 are ok, but I don't know if windowsupdate.microsoft.com still works with them. I used Win98SE for the longest time.
 
Originally posted by: Tanked
ON A PENTIUM 166!? NO WAY! No. But seriously, if windows xp is the only legitimate licence of windows that you own you're out of luck. There's no way to get that working feasably on a 166. No way. If you plan on staying on the legal side of the fence you're going to have to get a legit copy of windows 95 or upgrade your ram and get a legit copy of windows 98.
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I was at a friend's house running a WinXP beta version (this guy was a former Microsoft employee) and it was blazing away on a Pentium 100.

A P-166 should run WinXP fine as long as it has lots of memory to back it up.
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LMFAO!!! Sorry man but this is not an option. Sure it might run but talk about slowwwwww. It would lock up and if he was a former employee of microsoft, he probably had a hacked version or something. Turned off lots of the features or something. 500 mhz with 128mb of ram takes forever to run and startup, I tried it for someone.
 
I was at a friend's house running a WinXP beta version (this guy was a former Microsoft employee) and it was blazing away on a Pentium 100.

A P-166 should run WinXP fine as long as it has lots of memory to back it up.
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Yeah, seriously, I ran XP on an old hewlitt packard for my dad P200MMX with 128EDO (maxed) and it was completely unusable. There's no way it was running on a 100. He must have been pulling your leg.
 
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