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

With enough memory, XP will work acceptably on anything over 300MHz.

The problem is, many machines that old cannot handle the amount of memory needed.
 
I had it on my Duron 900, that's no biggie though

Someone in the h/w forums a while back said they had it on a Pentium 450 and it was fine. :Q
 
I have run it on a K6-2+ with 256MB and it is marginally acceptable. Bear in mind that XP has no support for ISA cards.
 
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.
 
Originally posted by: meltdown75
I had it on my Duron 900, that's no biggie though

Someone in the h/w forums a while back said they had it on a Pentium 450 and it was fine. :Q
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That may have been me. I put it on an old Dell 450 and it worked fine. Upping them memory to 512 helped it a great deal. My GF's mom uses it now.
 
moms pc- 500mhz, 256 ram with xp pro on it
laptop i use now 400mhz, 256 ram and ran xp fine but i liked win2k better. i just ordered a 256 stick to give it a total of 384 megs and i'm gonna throw xp pro back on there.

i did get it to run on a 200mhz 128mb of ram, slow but worked fine
 
I've tried installing SP2 on a P2-300Mhz 128Mb PC100. It only took me 3 hours......... The harddrive was beeing accesed all the time, and as it was an old Quantum Fireball 6GB it was REALLY painfull. With more memory I think it would have been ok for office and surfing.
 
Originally posted by: biostud
I've tried installing SP2 on a P2-300Mhz 128Mb PC100. It only took me 3 hours......... The harddrive was beeing accesed all the time, and as it was an old Quantum Fireball 6GB it was REALLY painfull. With more memory I think it would have been ok for office and surfing.
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Well, that and a new HD. The speed of the HD really effects how XP will run on an old machine like that.

Could you have added memeory to it, too?
 
Originally posted by: Amused
With enough memory, XP will work acceptably on anything over 300MHz.

The problem is, many machines that old cannot handle the amount of memory needed.
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lol we got it running on a p2 266, 128mb...that was horrible

edit: though it could do office tasks, play AoE2 online, and run CS at ~10-20fps (Matrox Millenia II 2mb)

The good old days...
 
P2 333 w/ 128 MB RAM. It was slow, but I got XP free though school so why not?

That computer is now on Win2k.
 
It's on the oldest machine I own. Which isn't saying much because that's a P3 800 with 600-something MB RAM. As expected, it runs great on it.
 
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.
 
Celeron ~2ghzish, but only 92 megs of RAM. I dunno how you get 92 megs of RAM on one stick, but the system works fine playing movies on the TV and recording TV shows.
 
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