Hey, i found and dell at a garage sale a few days ago - OLD - that i got for free, and installed win98 on it. i was just wondering if u guys thought with 200 mhz processor and 64 mb ram.

thanks,
jut

im out

Not worth the effort to install XP.

How to prepare to Upgrade Windows98 and Windows ME to Windows XP

eep! Don't bother :)

Actually, XP might not even run

That machine is not ALL that fast with 98

well if you like fishing it will make a good boat anchor. It's to old and does not meet system requirements. you need at lease 128 mg of ram to start

Xp WILL run on that machine, Albeit slowly.

I recently worked on a 166Mhz system that had 64MB RAM that was running Xp. Accordingly advised the customer to drop back to '98 or buy a new system.

Lessons learnt the hard way are not easily forgotten.

If it runs it will be darn slow and the license for a legal XP will cost more than that's worth.

However it should do fine with Win98. Keep it at that, and keep it legal. The Microsoft police are everywhere!!!!

What model Dell is that? That's my specialty.

You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users

I've run XP on an HP 233mhz with 128 Mb of RAM. It was slow but the biggest issue was the hardware was too old with no way of upgrading the bios etc to stop XP blue screening. Anything older than 5 years is hard work with XP.

I have installed WinXP on an old Unisys system. THis was an older Pentium 66MHz with 64Megs RAM. It could be considered a bookshelf system due to its small size. I bought it a bank auction. It had a NIC, modem, HD and floppy. It runs slower but it runs. I also installed Win2K. I use it more for faxing and simple word processing and for simple web surfing.

Abe