upgrading to WinXP?
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- pr2
as lately i find myself stuck with way-too-old system (win98) i'm about to upgrade my comp to WinXP Pro -- well, mosty to run Avid Xpress DV...
My comp is about 2-3 years (don't remember exactly) PIII 500 MHZ with 400 MB RAM.
...DId anybody expereince problems doing such thing. Am i on the safe side?
- the_user0
check the sys requirements, you probably can't just 'upgrade.'
at the very least you'll probably have to update your bios.
- slinky0
XP is awesome... but i hear it may have problems if you upgrade (thats what i hear).. my comp is new and came preinstalled
- pr2-1
well, i'm not really upgrading. I'm formating whole HD so it can boot from the CD and install from there...
- sp0
i ran xp pro on an ibm thinkpad 600x [p3 500, 256 ram] with out any problems at all...briefly, now the laptop runs redhat 8.0.
xp actually preforms well on older p3's. i run it at work on a 500 and it does just dandy.
it's probably the best ms operating system on the market...i say this, retracting all previous complaints i had with it.
:)
it's not perfect, but then what os is?
- protoculture0
i've run XP on less powerful machines fine, so you should be okay.
- pr20
thanks guys!
- japapani0
i updated to xp with no problem. the only thing i didn't like was the new desktop theme. i changed it to classicright away.
- keyl0
I've noticed than XP runs better on laptop than desktop box.
dunno why.
i'd suggest 2000 for a desktop machine.
- d_t_p0
i use 2000 and will not go to xp until i have to. which hopefully i just get to skip xp altogether.
- Danski0
Not sure it's possible to *up*grade to XP. 2000 is the lesser of two evils in this case.
- steveo_uk0
HI i run XP on both a desktop and a laptop. The desktops great but its a p4 2gig with loads of memory. the laptop not so good. pIII 600 and 256. Things can get a bit slow when running photoshop or fireworks. So i am down grading to Windows 2000 for my laptop. As with the previous post. Move to classic mode as i have found this to be more stable.
- mitsu0
i've done about 10 to 15 fresh installs of 98, 2000 and XP in the last year and here are my personal opinions:
98: great OS, especially for gaming, but after a fresh install, you still have to go get all the service pack updates which takes too much time and adds a few hundred more megs of junk to your HD.
2000: omg, can you say (services)? watch these babies eat up your resources when you least expect them. yesterday it took me 10 seconds to open notepad cause my 2k box was choking on some random services that took higher priority than what i was working on. (and mind you, this is a 800Mhz machine w/ about 512 Mb of memory) granted, you can disable some services, but that's a hassel. On some of my 2K installs at home, i took the initiative to do this and it did make things faster, but now read my XP review:
xp: i was skeptical at first, but with an os boot time of about 20-30 seconds, i was already loving it. it's not as plug and play as MS would like you to believe and it will hassle you to death if it finds hardware that you haven't installed drivers for yet, but overall it's a very stable and fast os. the only exception i've found is with IE. it crashes on a regular basis, but then again, i haven't ran any updates on this install, so it could just be me. this is a great os for gaming too. so i'd have to rate this one the highest of all 3.
- k20
2k as a desktop is a joke, i've been struggling with it at work for years now and god i hate it. it's a great server and should be used for one.
xp is the shit once you're fimiliar with the changes to the ui and if you keep up to date with the patches
as for installing, just boot the cd .. kill your partition then recreate and format as ntfs from the install. if you use (keep?) fat32 you might as well get a bat and hit yourself in the hit until you pass out.
- k20
hit/head .. it's friday .. i claim stupid. :D
- mitsu0
there's nothing wrong with fat32
- k20
you lose complete control of your files, as well as space and speed.
- Mick0
If you want mostly a workstation for design - 2000 is the better. XP has lots of crap that nobody needs.
- unknown0
dude you NEED to change