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Win XP on 300mhz pc
Name: vigs Date: October 31, 2004 at 10:27:06 Pacific OS: Win 98 SE CPU/Ram: 300Mhz, 128 ram
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Hi there i was just wondering if a windows xp home upgrade would work well on a 300MHz Inter Celeron, with 128 Ram, old PCI Graphics card. Windows 98 is currently installed. Does anyone know if this would work, or would it simply be very slow. I want to use the pc mainly as a network terminal to store files on. I don't need all the microsoft office and stuff, just winxp to run on a network
Name: vigs Date: October 31, 2004 at 10:30:04 Pacific
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I also forgot to mention it has two hard disks one of them is 4gb and the other is 1.5gb will that be enought memory to support xp home
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Response Number 2
Name: per Date: October 31, 2004 at 10:32:08 Pacific
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XP will barely fit on the 4 gig and won't fit on the 1.5 gig. It will run VERY slow on that machine.
Please post back within 24 hours or I will delete the post from my follow up list. Thanks.
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Response Number 3
Name: vigs Date: October 31, 2004 at 10:42:57 Pacific
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IT says on the box requires 1.5gig and the pc spec is recomended. are you sure it will be very slow
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Response Number 4
Name: Misse Date: October 31, 2004 at 11:05:21 Pacific
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yeah... I have it on a 500Mhz with 256MB, almost without anything else, and thats almost decent :)
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Response Number 5
Name: StuartS Date: October 31, 2004 at 11:09:28 Pacific
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Yes, very very slow. What it says on the box is the absolute minimum just to get the thing installed. By the time XP is installed, there will not be a lot of room left for anything else on a 4 Mb disk.
Another 128 Mbs of memory would help but not by much. I have XP Home on a PIII 900 Mhz with 128 Mbs and it is slow compared to a 1.6Mhz with 256 Mbs memory.
Stuart
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Response Number 6
Name: ham30 Date: October 31, 2004 at 12:09:38 Pacific
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"I want to use the pc mainly as a network terminal to store files on."
Why can't you use win98?
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Response Number 7
Name: vigs Date: October 31, 2004 at 12:12:31 Pacific
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security
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Response Number 8
Name: Chuck 2 Date: October 31, 2004 at 12:56:53 Pacific
Read the part under "Run the Windows XP Upgrade Advisor"
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Response Number 9
Name: ham30 Date: October 31, 2004 at 13:51:47 Pacific
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You can protect the drive/files with passwords using win98.
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Response Number 10
Name: ham30 Date: October 31, 2004 at 13:57:44 Pacific
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It's kinda doubtful if a 4gb win98 drive has enough space to do an XP upgrade.
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Response Number 11
Name: nebjamin Date: October 31, 2004 at 14:44:02 Pacific
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I have a 20gb hard drive, 266mhz 196mb of ram and 8mb video card. It runs slow but i think its better off. But wow only 4 and 1.5. If u get a lot bigger hard drive then ur fine.
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Response Number 12
Name: don1 Date: October 31, 2004 at 21:28:17 Pacific
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One of my pc is Amd 333 ram 320Mb. My basic Xppro system need only arround 650 Mb hd space and still installed on 1.5Gb Hd. Boot time compare to w98 almost the same. To load applications like Excel or Word etc. are garrantie faster then on w98. My Xp system have worked fine and very stable since Years. You need a lot of tune up on the OS.
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Response Number 13
Name: ectoplasme Date: October 31, 2004 at 21:42:05 Pacific
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George, for your info, I run XP on a PII 400 mhz 192 Mb ram and it works perfectly, not even slow.
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Response Number 14
Name: NITRO Date: November 1, 2004 at 06:34:16 Pacific
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I am running an old comp,P2 300 mhz with 256 Ram,O.S is win xp pro and it runs great,can be a little sluggish now and again,but nothing major,runs just as good as it did when it had 98 and in some areas runs better,Just get yourself a bigger HD and little more Ram,(possibly a new video card,at least 32 meg) and your comp will run fine....NITRO.
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Response Number 15
Name: Viv Date: November 3, 2004 at 19:16:44 Pacific
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I just recently gave my son my old Pent 2 with 233mghz, a 6gig HD and 449mb ram with XP Pro on it. Very rarely it ran sluggish, most of the time it was pretty fast, if you can believe that. --Viv :)
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