Re: Where to get cheap XP Home?
- From: "JoeJoe" <no@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:34:23 +0100
"ric" <publicmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jul 31, 9:55 am, "archierob" <archie...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
3) Is your pal's PC system hardware of adequate spec to run XP
Home?
4) Your pal should check that his/her , programs and peripherals
are all supported under XP - not likely to be an issue, but worth
checking.
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Good advice from previous poster. Do not assume that the comp will run
XP. In many cases the BIOS are just too old to cope. Visiting the
manufacturers site should give some info.
This has worked for me: change the bios to boot from the CD and try to
run Ubuntu 7.04 - some interesting messages may come up and it has
been my experience that if the BIOS can't cope with 7.04 then they
will not cope with XP.
bad advice from previous poster. BIOS won't support an operating
system? eh? I don't understand this reasoning.
It's all about drivers. Lack of manufacturer-supplied drivers doesn't
mean it won't work though. XP with SP2 slipstreamed in is pretty
darned good at getting most drivers right for common chipsets.
I'd put my lowest spec for usable XP at around a PIII 500 with >512MB
RAM. Anything above this will be ok for general use...
His machine is a P4 - not sure about RAM, etc, so that's why I thought
upgrading from win98 to XP would be a good idea.
.
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