Requirements?

[Jess Fertudei]

Forget what the boxes say... in practicality... can my father's box [one of
my old ones with a FIC PA2007 Super7 board, K62 running at 450 with 128M
SDRAM (operating at PC100 speed) running Office 97, a very old Print Shop
Delux and IE6 doing mild surfing] handle XP Home?

I would like to stabilize that system some from his current 98SE, if
possible.






Thanks!

 

[Cyberbear]

Forget what the boxes say... in practicality... can my father's box [one of
my old ones with a FIC PA2007 Super7 board, K62 running at 450 with 128M
SDRAM (operating at PC100 speed) running Office 97, a very old Print Shop
Delux and IE6 doing mild surfing] handle XP Home?

I would like to stabilize that system some from his current 98SE, if
possible.






Thanks!

With 256MB RAM it would run XP Home, but it will still be pretty
slow. If you turn off the fancy graphics effects in XP by using
the "Classic Sttyle" you will find it a little easier to use. I
have run XP on 450MHz Pentium 3 machines, I don't know how well a
K6-2 will handle it. I do know that Pentium 2 machines are pretty
slow running XP.

But, with only 128MB RAM it will be thrashing the hard drive a
lot due to lack of physical memory and making the experience very
frustrating. If you must run XP on that machine, get more RAM,
the more the better.

 

[Jess Fertudei]

Thank you

Forget what the boxes say... in practicality... can my father's box [one of
my old ones with a FIC PA2007 Super7 board, K62 running at 450 with 128M
SDRAM (operating at PC100 speed) running Office 97, a very old Print Shop
Delux and IE6 doing mild surfing] handle XP Home?

I would like to stabilize that system some from his current 98SE, if
possible.






Thanks!

With 256MB RAM it would run XP Home, but it will still be pretty
slow. If you turn off the fancy graphics effects in XP by using
the "Classic Sttyle" you will find it a little easier to use. I
have run XP on 450MHz Pentium 3 machines, I don't know how well a
K6-2 will handle it. I do know that Pentium 2 machines are pretty
slow running XP.

But, with only 128MB RAM it will be thrashing the hard drive a
lot due to lack of physical memory and making the experience very
frustrating. If you must run XP on that machine, get more RAM,
the more the better.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Forget what the boxes say... in practicality... can my father's box [one of
my old ones with a FIC PA2007 Super7 board, K62 running at 450 with 128M
SDRAM (operating at PC100 speed) running Office 97, a very old Print Shop
Delux and IE6 doing mild surfing] handle XP Home?

I would like to stabilize that system some from his current 98SE, if
possible.

Just about, but you really need to enhance the RAM, if not by all that
much. I ran XP in the Betas on a 192MB PIII 450; 256 MB would give it
a decent chance. I have a second box here with a K6/2 500 and 256 MB
and it is quite adequate

And you need around 4GB disk space free to do the upgrade (you will get
some back)

Read Gary Woodruff's article on upgrading to XP at
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpupgrad.htm