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Offline ZmaN

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Can XP Pro run on this machine?
on: November 17, 2005, 09:26:34 pm
I have a computer to fix, and the women wants XP on it.  The only problem is that it originally came with 98, thus the specs are:

Intel Celeron 600Mhz
256 Mb SDRAM
Onboard graphics
Modem
Add-on Ethernet card
OLD intel chipset (dont remember the exact chipset)

You think it could run it or should I tell her that she needs to buy windows 2000?
Well what do I do now?  Well Jack, you seem to have an act for blowing things up....

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Offline Taristin

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Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #1 on: November 17, 2005, 09:39:06 pm
I had win 2000 running on a Duron 600. I assume a Celeron 600 can run XP. Though the ram may be an issue.
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Offline ZmaN

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Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #2 on: November 17, 2005, 09:41:59 pm
Exactly what I thought (the RAM)...
Well what do I do now?  Well Jack, you seem to have an act for blowing things up....

www.underoath777.com  <---  The BEST BAND EVER!

My Rig:
NZXT Apollo Case, with the insides painted black, and refinished side panels
Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750 watt PSU
Intel Xeon E3110 (e8400) OC'd to 3.6ghz
Xigmatek S1283 HDT Cooler
Biostar TPower I45 Motherboard
2 x 2GB's Crucial Ballistx DDR2-800 RAM
XFX Geforce 8800GTX GPU
Onboard sound
3 x 36GB Raptors in RAID 0
1 x Western Digital 640GB stand-alone

Matthew 1:1-2  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #3 on: November 17, 2005, 09:46:57 pm
I've seen XP Pro run (although slowly) on 233 MHz P2's with 128 MB of RAM.
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Offline Grey Wolf

Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #4 on: November 17, 2005, 09:51:32 pm
Just turn off the Playskool interface, and you'll be fine.
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Offline ZmaN

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Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #5 on: November 17, 2005, 09:59:21 pm
alrighty....

thanks man!
Well what do I do now?  Well Jack, you seem to have an act for blowing things up....

www.underoath777.com  <---  The BEST BAND EVER!

My Rig:
NZXT Apollo Case, with the insides painted black, and refinished side panels
Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750 watt PSU
Intel Xeon E3110 (e8400) OC'd to 3.6ghz
Xigmatek S1283 HDT Cooler
Biostar TPower I45 Motherboard
2 x 2GB's Crucial Ballistx DDR2-800 RAM
XFX Geforce 8800GTX GPU
Onboard sound
3 x 36GB Raptors in RAID 0
1 x Western Digital 640GB stand-alone

Matthew 1:1-2  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.
 

Offline CP5670

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Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #6 on: November 17, 2005, 10:00:01 pm
It will run fine as long as you turn off all the flashy interface stuff and most of the crap that runs in the background. That basically makes it into 2000 anyway. I used to have it running on a 450mhz P2 with 128MB of memory; the OS memory usage was around 52MB, which wasn't too bad given that the only things I ran on there were basic windows programs and old games.
 

Offline kode

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Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #7 on: November 18, 2005, 12:31:40 am
saying it'll run "fine" is cutting it. it'll start. win2k would work a lot better - I've run that quite happily on a 133 Pentium.
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Offline vyper

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Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #8 on: November 18, 2005, 02:16:33 am
Yeah, 2K will run a lot smoother on that. If you insist on using XP go research how to turn off all the crap that even Pro has running in the background.
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #9 on: November 18, 2005, 03:00:38 am
Tell her that it may cost extra to tweak it so that it isn't horribly slow.
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Offline Fineus

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Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #10 on: November 18, 2005, 04:49:10 am
Quote from: Kosh on November 17, 2005, 09:46:57 pm
I've seen XP Pro run (although slowly) on 233 MHz P2's with 128 MB of RAM.
Yup, that's more or less the specs of my home laptop. It's slow as hell but it does run.
 

Offline ZmaN

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Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #11 on: November 18, 2005, 08:44:43 am
Quote from: WMCoolmon on November 18, 2005, 03:00:38 am
Tell her that it may cost extra to tweak it so that it isn't horribly slow.

I'll go through the system process and shut off what isnt needed...

thanks guys

PS, i DO know how to shut the XP interface off, so thats no problem!
Well what do I do now?  Well Jack, you seem to have an act for blowing things up....

www.underoath777.com  <---  The BEST BAND EVER!

My Rig:
NZXT Apollo Case, with the insides painted black, and refinished side panels
Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750 watt PSU
Intel Xeon E3110 (e8400) OC'd to 3.6ghz
Xigmatek S1283 HDT Cooler
Biostar TPower I45 Motherboard
2 x 2GB's Crucial Ballistx DDR2-800 RAM
XFX Geforce 8800GTX GPU
Onboard sound
3 x 36GB Raptors in RAID 0
1 x Western Digital 640GB stand-alone

Matthew 1:1-2  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.
 

Offline pyro-manic

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Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #12 on: November 18, 2005, 12:27:34 pm
You might want to customise the install itself, to strip out all the unnecessary crap - check out http://unattended.msfn.org/ for info on that. It speeds things up noticeably. :)
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Re: Can XP Pro run on this machine?
Reply #13 on: November 18, 2005, 07:28:03 pm
Although I think that's what murdered the video capability of my win2k, so you might want to make sure everything works.
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