Running Windows XP with 256 MB of RAM is a blast...

[EpsiIon]

Half of my RAM died a few hours ago (of course I didn't realize it was my RAM until I got BSOD while performing a recovery of what seemed like a corrupt XP installation -- lesson learned).

So I spent an hour running memtest to verify that the other stick I have is still good. Then, after finishing the recovery and booting, I had maybe 40 MB free, 10 of which was quickly eaten by IE. Let's just say that Windows XP is ridiculously slow if you don't have enough RAM to keep it happy. I think I'm nearing the hour mark on this SP2 install... which I just noticed froze up on me. Joy.

 

[Albis]

wow that sucks. i was using a laptop with 256mb of ram and windows xp pro. it was not a fun sight

 

[aplefka]

You're nuts. I couldn't imagine running anything past 98 on 256 megs of ram.

 

[Shawn]

You just suck at winxp. I'm running WinXP on a P2 266MHz laptop with 160MB of ram and it runs just fine. Got wireless internet on it too. I disabled most of the worthless services I'll never use and I have plenty of free ram to run IE on it just fine. My parents use it every day.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: Albis
wow that sucks. i was using a laptop with 256mb of ram and windows xp pro. it was not a fun sight

Guess what I'm running right now... yea, it sucks... so slow. Accesses the page file so often.

 

[Conky]

256MB is what I consider a decent minimal amount of RAM required to run XP although I always recommend at least 512

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: aplefka
You're nuts. I couldn't imagine running anything past 98 on 256 megs of ram.

same here, i would upgrade our other computer to XP, but it's only 192 megs of ram and i dont want to have to upgrade that too

 

[xcript]

XP ran fine with 256 megs of RAM on my laptop (recently added a stick of 512 for gaming).

Hell, I ran XP on a P200/160MB box for a while and it wasn't that bad.

 

[Smaug]

Just turn off all the flashy graphics, now running 256MB on OS X, thats hard.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Smaug
Just turn off all the flashy graphics, now running 256MB on OS X, thats hard.

We have macs at school with 128MB running OS X. *shudder*

 

[0010010110]

I ran XP on a K6 350mhz with 64mb of ram.
That was before sp1 though.

 

[imported_Reck]

i'm using 256.

 

[Conky]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: aplefka
You're nuts. I couldn't imagine running anything past 98 on 256 megs of ram.

same here, i would upgrade our other computer to XP, but it's only 192 megs of ram and i dont want to have to upgrade that too

XP should work fine with that amount if they aren't power users. My gf's Dell came with 128mb and XP from the factory and she loved it.

 

[sharkeeper]

Blast?

Blast of what?

 

[EpsiIon]

I ordered a 512 MB stick from Newegg a few hours ago. I'm in southern California, so I might receive it by Thursday or Friday, if I'm lucky. Until then, I guess I'm pretty much restricted to surfing the intarweb and "chatting online with babes... all day."

 

[kalster]

my windows media center pc has 256mb, seems to be ok, i am waiting for DDR2 prices to come down before getting another 256mb stick for it though

 

[EpsiIon]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
Blast?

Blast of what?

A blast of craptastic slowness right to the face.

 

[sharkeeper]

A blast of craptastic slowness right to the face.

Well that describes my portal to cyberspace!

 

[EpsiIon]

Originally posted by: Crazyfool

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: aplefka
You're nuts. I couldn't imagine running anything past 98 on 256 megs of ram.

same here, i would upgrade our other computer to XP, but it's only 192 megs of ram and i dont want to have to upgrade that too

XP should work fine with that amount if they aren't power users. My gf's Dell came with 128mb and XP from the factory and she loved it.

Winnar! It works fine for doing what my parents might do. As soon as I try things like accessing large files or gaming... it tanks.

Also, a correction. I'm running IE, Trillian, Zone Alarm, Norton AV, and Windows says that I have 55 MB of physical memory free. Maybe I'll play Starcraft...

 

[loic2003]

What you talking about n00b??? XP runs great with 128Mb of ram and a 300MHz Processor. At least, that's what microsoft tells us...



seriously though, 256 is fine for IE/OE and office.... but that's about it.