XP on an Older HP Pavilion

[Guest]

Will XP run on my old HP Pavilion (about 450MHz)

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

I recently installed Windows XP Home Edition on
an old Gateway PC with a 333MHz PII CPU and it runs
just fine! I recommend that you have at least 256MB
of RAM installed.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
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[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

One way to check for this is to go to the HP support website, and see if
there is any reference to XP and your model.. if there is, you could be onto
a winner..

As Carey has already pointed out, you really need at least 256mb RAM.. a 20
gb drive or larger would not go amiss either..

Go to here.. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/advisor.mspx

This will give you a report on your machine's readiness to accept XP..

 

[Malke]

Will XP run on my old HP Pavilion (about 450MHz)

This is not enough information to give you a specific answer. The
processor speed is quite slow, but more depends on how much memory you
have in the system and whether HP has drivers for XP for that
particular model machine. You want a minimum of 256MB of RAM to run XP;
more is better.

First, go to HP's tech support site and see what drivers are available
for your model machine. If there are none available for XP, you're
taking a chance; those Pavilions had quite a bit of proprietary
hardware in them.

Second, run the XP Upgrade Advisor:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/advisor.asp

Think about why you want to upgrade and balance the cost of a new basic
computer (depending on where you live, but for instance for around $500
you can get a brand-new Dell or HP) against the cost of buying XP Home
(around $100 for an upgrade) and any programs that won't work on XP and
will need to be replaced.

Malke

 

[Donny Broome]

HP will not support it, and you may not find the necessary hardware drivers,
but yes, XP will "run" on such a machine. Microsoft lists the technical
minimum hardware requirements here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx

That being said, XP will be painfully slow on this machine. Additionally,
any amount of memory below 256 MB is a joke.

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Donny

Not necessarily.. removal of XP eye candy on such a machine makes it quite
usable..

 

[R. McCarty]

Exactly, I help users with older machines to move to XP. Setup &
configured properly, you can get adequate and even pretty good PC
performance. There are all kinds of "Tunings" and the like that help
you to run XP in a smaller memory footprint. However, if the intent
is gaming your money is better spent on a new computer.
Most PCs are not "State-of-the-Art" and many folks are still using
Windows 98 for their OS.

 

[M8RIX]

I ran XP (Home Edition) on a Pavilion 450Mhz for years with no problems at
all. I had a 10 Gig HD and 768MB RAM. I sold it and as far as I know it is
still running like a top.