What about the XP Upgrade Advisor?
Really, with backup needs and DVD-R 16X/CD-R 52X burners, you need 1.6 Ghz or
better.
| The one I want to upgrade, and it's probably only one, is the Pentium 450,
| 384mb memory, currently running Win98, but I know will run 2000 pro since i
| am running that on the Pentium 400. As for drivers, I think the video and
| sound should be Ok. I'll need to check with Dell on that. The printer is
| Ok, but probably not the scanner. What else could I be missing? Doesn't
| dell run a diag on systems to tell you if they can be upgraded?
|
| "Rick Rogers" wrote:
|
| > More likely to be WinME/Win2000 systems than Win95/98, it goes farther back
| > than you think. My first 98 system was on an AMD K6 333Mhz, and that was
| > pretty decent for the time. The 400-500Mhz range wasn't too common for home
| > users until close to the end of 1998 and into 1999. Still probably short on
| > ram though, and we all know that with XP, it's "the more the merrier".
| > Definitely would want to check for driver support on the hardware, but
| > likely most of it will be supported out of the box as driver development for
| > XP occurred in 2000-2001, not too long after those processors became
| > commonplace.
| >
| > --
| > Best of Luck,
| >
| > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
| >
| > Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
| >
| > | > > Computers with processor speeds such as those you state, likely came
| > > preinstalled with Windows 95 (maybe Windows 98 original edition).
| > > Computers such as these will have all sorts of hardware compatibility
| > > problems. There will also be bios issues that may not be corrected - even
| > > with a bios upgrade.
| > >
| > > Then there is the RAM issue. Many Windows 95/98 computers were delivered
| > > with only 32 meg of RAM. You need 256 minimum to have an enjoyable Windows
| > > XP experience. Your hard drive is going to be extremely small, and slow.
| > >
| > > Then there are the Windows XP driver issues. Can you get XP drivers for
| > > all of the hardware in said computers? Likely NOT.
| > >
| > > --
| > >
| > > Regards,
| > >
| > > Richard Urban
| > > Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
| > > (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
| > >
| > > Quote from George Ankner:
| > > If you knew as much as you think you know,
| > > You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
| > >
| > > | > >> What is the slowest speed processor Windows XP Professional will run on
| > >> without problems? I have a three Dell computers, Pentium 400, 450, 500,
| > >> and
| > >> would like to install XP on them if possible. They are more than enough
| > >> for
| > >> what I use them for, but I want to upgrade to a better OS.
| > >>
| > >>
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
