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What's the oldest machine you have WINXP installed on?

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PIII 450 / 256mb laptop, works fine. They also have it on some ancient system at work..it works alright, but it's incredibly slow.

I dunno how you get 92 megs of RAM on one stick,
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32mb onboard and a 64mb stick, or vice versa.
 
Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Originally posted by: NuclearNed
At work I have XP on a P2 300MHz pc, 192MB RAM. It works, but gives me a whole lot of coffee breaks while it struggles to do some tasks.
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Upo the memmory to 512. Should be cheap o nthat system. $10? Would be worth the investmment unless you like coffee breaks that much.
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Old memory is f'n expensive. I would be surprised if the memory was really the major botttleneck. I bet per dollar a faster CPU hard drive would show more improvement.
 
Originally posted by: CadetLee
PIII 450 / 256mb laptop, works fine. They also have it on some ancient system at work..it works alright, but it's incredibly slow.

I dunno how you get 92 megs of RAM on one stick,
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32mb onboard and a 64mb stick, or vice versa.
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Or 128 megs and 32 mb is being used for graphics.
 
Put a copy on myn buddies kids pc a PII 266 with 64mb of ram and a 4g HDD.. .. ..

Started the install @ 7:42am and finally made it to the desktop @ 10:14am
 
I was running XP, but i switched over to server 2003 enterprise on my K6 398MHz notebook with 256MB RAM 🙂

works excellent
 
Had it on a P2-300 w/128mb Ram. Had to upgrade the sound card to an SB Live to get any sound out of it, though. The old onboard C-Media wasn't XP compatible.

I gave the machine to a local church, and I guess the use it for an attendance program.
 
I'm pretty sure I installed XP once on my old Pentium 166 MMX machine, after I threw in some more RAM I had laying around (I had forgotten that XP would just refuse to install if you had less than 64MB of RAM 😛)...
 
I didnt think you could install XP on anything with less than a 233mhz processor. It gave me a CPU error saying it could not install on a 166mhz machine.
 
...sounds like it should run just fine on my Athlon 950mhz slot, 512k L1cache, ata 100 20 gig wd.hd. Built a few of those 950's and they all have near a gig of ram..run 98se like a dream. 🙂
 
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