w2k minimum hardware

[SLPFirehawk]

I am wanting to do a complete upgrade of some systems at my office. I want to upgrade the Windows NT Workstation computers to WIndows 2000 Professional. Most meet the minimum hardware requirements...barely. The ones I am worried about are the Pentium 200, 64MB, & 2.2 GB HDD computers. With these run w2k or will it be unbearably sluggish? I suppose I could just run NT on these machines until we phase them out.

Any suggestions or insights?

Hawk

 

[FOBSIDE]

i think you will hate win2k on those machines you mentioned. i would just stay with NT. 64mb of ram is just not a good idea on any operating system in my opinion. i think theyll just run too slow for you and youll just kick yourself in the butt for upgrading them. just my opinion from experience.

 

[Peter007]

I disagree and agree with Fobside

While 64mb isn't ideal, it is probably the MAXIMUM support ram of the Pentium 200 anyways

I have a K6(2) 266 Laptop with only 64mb of ram, yet I'm running Window2000 Advance Server without
Hardrive trashing at all. Sure 128mb would be ideal, but for Web Browsing/ Word Processing I don't find the need of more memory.

I say just install it on a seperate HD and try it out, it may or maynot work for you.

In my W2K experience, I have found 64mb sufficient.
Also make sure that the DMA is turn on which MS turn it off by default

What worry me more is XP on 64mb ----NOW that is really Insane, don't do it!

 

[Saltin]

64 mb is not enough for 2k Advanced Server. Sure it will work, but you might as well be doing the calculations by hand.
128mb is what I would consider the "bare minimum"
256 is where things start to get tolerable.

It really comes down to how much punishment you want to endure.

 

[FOBSIDE]

<< 64 mb is not enough for 2k Advanced Server. Sure it will work, but you might as well be doing the calculations by hand.
128mb is what I would consider the "bare minimum"
256 is where things start to get tolerable.

It really comes down to how much punishment you want to endure. >>


yeah, id agree with this which was really more my point. you can do it, but do you want to endure it? if the systems work with NT, i say stick with NT.