what's up guys....a friend of mine has a p3 500mHz with 256mb and windows 98. for some reason they NEED to have XP on their computer, the only thing they will ever do is internet(through dialup) and once in a blue moon they'll write a paper using office. Is it even worth trying to put XP on there, i know it would be dog slow but may just be good enough for them. What do you think? Tell them to buy a cheap setup from dell? i kinda don't want to piece one together for em.
Win XP on a 500mHz with 256mb?
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RAM is cheap - tell them to keep their current setup and upgrade to 512 and they'll be much happier without spending too much $$$.
That should work fine for light tasks. Just keep the number of programs running in the background to a minimum. You might also consider adding a little bit more RAM.
man...this forum is great...within minutes you get helpful responses.
which theme would i switch it to instead of the windows theme to save resources?
right now i'm tryin to install xp, the computer wouldn't boot from cd so i copied the windows xp cd to the c drive, booted from a floppy, changed to the c drive and executed winnt.exe, it asked me where the windows files were and i pointed to em, how the screen has been stuck at "please wait while setup copies files to your hard disk" for a long time and i don't see any files being copied in the lower left hand corner
which theme would i switch it to instead of the windows theme to save resources?
right now i'm tryin to install xp, the computer wouldn't boot from cd so i copied the windows xp cd to the c drive, booted from a floppy, changed to the c drive and executed winnt.exe, it asked me where the windows files were and i pointed to em, how the screen has been stuck at "please wait while setup copies files to your hard disk" for a long time and i don't see any files being copied in the lower left hand corner
Assuming you solve your install issue: don't worry about it - it'll be fine as is. I ran XP on an Athlon 700 w/256MB ram... my brother had 128MB for a long time. I personally don't like the Luna theme, so I used the Windows Classic theme.
ditto, and turn off auto update, auto restore, hibernation and close a lot of services while you are at that
spend the money that you would put to new ram and the XP Pro license towards a cheap dell or local cheapie from a mom and pop shop.
The pc's at are computer class are only p2-p3 vintage systems and they have xp. Granted they dont have any bloat or crap on them. Some have the enhancements off. Maybe a cheap dell with 512 mb of ram would be a great thing for them.
I just did a test install of XP on a 600MHz celeron with 512mb ram, and you'd hardly notice it's not a 2ghz machine. In fact, it runs faster than most of the 2GHz Dell systems I've come across, as those Dells are usually the ones with 128/256mb ram and tons of software loaded on startup.
I've never understood why that is like that, I always set them to floppy, cdrom, then hard drive, & any other boot options I disable. It'll make your life 100x easier installing XP directly from the cd.
That's probably a bios option, where the hard drive is higher up in the boot order than the cdrom.
I've never understood why that is like that, I always set them to floppy, cdrom, then hard drive, & any other boot options I disable. It'll make your life 100x easier installing XP directly from the cd.
the bios is set to start up from floppy then cdrom then hard drive and still won't boot from cd, no clue why, i also had another 600mHz computer i can't get to boot from cd....as we speak the install is still going at 92% through the "setup is copying files"...i wish it woulda booted from cd
XP is installed, and i'm real surprised the way it runs, i disabled a lot of services based on this site http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12
Now sound isn't working even though it says all the drivers are installed, nothing is asking for drivers in device manager. So i gotta work on that.
Now sound isn't working even though it says all the drivers are installed, nothing is asking for drivers in device manager. So i gotta work on that.
there is another alternative. I am running XP just fine on a 500 MHz laptop with 128 MB of RAM. You can either strip all the unecessary stuff yourself or you can download the images for naked or barely naked windows XP and just switch to your license key after install.
WinXP will be fine. If you want to upgrade, there's a sempron 3200+ system from Compaq at $150 (after $250 rebate), excluding a monitor. It's a complete system w/ a dvd burner. Check the hot deals forum.
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