What's the lowest spec you've installed XP on?

[Monkey muppet]

My DAD decided that he wanted their three computers connected to the internet.....and he wants XP on them

comp 1: AMD 900mhz, 256mp ram, 7gb HD, Geforce2 MX 32mb - XP no probs'
comp2: Citrix 333mhx, 196mb ram, 4gb HD, ATI all-in-wonder 32mb - XP a few hardware issues - no biggie
comp3: P200mhz, 128mb, 4gb HD, 1mb on board graphics, - XP third time lucky..it's working

Congrats or why r u wasted your time????

 

[LordPhoenix]

533 mhz intel p3 no problemos 4 mb internal

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Congrats && waste of time

Exactly how well is XP running on those last two?

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Monkey muppet
My DAD decided that he wanted their three computers connected to the internet.....and he wants XP on them

comp 1: AMD 900mhz, 256mp ram, 7gb HD, Geforce2 MX 32mb - XP no probs'
comp2: Citrix 333mhx, 196mb ram, 4gb HD, ATI all-in-wonder 32mb - XP a few hardware issues - no biggie
comp3: P200mhz, 128mb, 4gb HD, 1mb on board graphics, - XP third time lucky..it's working

Congrats or why r u wasted your time????

holy mother...that last machine must be nearly unuseable. I take it he at least let you disable visual themes and a lot of other stuff?

 

[Shawn]

slowest? that would have to be my laptop. 1.3GHz celeron. However it came w/ XP. If I ever needed to reinstall I'd put 2k on it.

 

[simms]

I put XP on a AMD 1GHZ with 256MB of RAM. Nothing too small, but hey, you asked.

 

[Monkey muppet]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Monkey muppet
My DAD decided that he wanted their three computers connected to the internet.....and he wants XP on them

comp 1: AMD 900mhz, 256mp ram, 7gb HD, Geforce2 MX 32mb - XP no probs'
comp2: Citrix 333mhx, 196mb ram, 4gb HD, ATI all-in-wonder 32mb - XP a few hardware issues - no biggie
comp3: P200mhz, 128mb, 4gb HD, 1mb on board graphics, - XP third time lucky..it's working

Congrats or why r u wasted your time????

holy mother...that last machine must be nearly unuseable. I take it he at least let you disable visual themes and a lot of other stuff?

With 1mb on-board It's running 800x600 with 8 bit colours - so visual themes consist of a new window opening. Not too bad starting up <1 min.

The first two were running 2000 pro, so they are used to the speed.

 

[Deeko]

Back in the day I installed Win95 on a 386sx 16MHz.

That was a hoot.

 

[brtspears2]

p2-300 and a 6gb hard drive. Too bad I couldn't install office and all the updates as I run out of hd space.

 

[KoolDrew]

The lowest I ever did was a Pentuim 4 system running at 1.7GHz and with 256mb of RAM. That is my moms PC.

 

[Monkey muppet]

The wierd thing is: I'm getting adicted to this - almost as much as running a nice stable OC whilst keep good temp's.

I saw a p133, 16mb laptop and start thinking to my self - hmm I wonder if I could get 2000 on that

 

[dawks]

I ran XP Pro on a PII 400 with 256ram for 2.5 years as my primary system.

I even ran another install of XP Pro on top of it with Virtual PC 2004.

It handled it nicely, along with photoshop, and dreamweaver.. just alot of waiting..

 

[naruto1988]

i tried xp on a 233 mhz and failed. i decided to give the computer 98 instead. it's basically a waste of time but nice lesson learned.

 

[OMGoddess]

Pentium I 200mhz, 64MB of RAM on my laptop. 4 Gig harddrive.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Waste of time and money.

 

[Monkey muppet]

computers came free - and I've got nothing better to do

 

[OMGoddess]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Waste of time and money.

How? Pop in the Cd, go do something else, come back answer a few questions, if you get to the questions you've pretty much succeded.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: Supercharged
slowest? that would have to be my laptop. 1.3GHz celeron. However it came w/ XP. If I ever needed to reinstall I'd put 2k on it.

Why would you downgrade to 2K?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: OMGoddess

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Waste of time and money.

How? Pop in the Cd, go do something else, come back answer a few questions, if you get to the questions you've pretty much succeded.

Why? I can install my OS of choice in 30 minutes if I take my time (and on slower hardware than that). AND I don't have to spend money on a license to do it.

 

[amdguy]

school computer

pentium 133, 512 MB RAM, 8 GB HD

 

[Chaotic42]

I haven't done XP on anything slow, but I did Windows 2000 on a Pentium 75 with 32MB of memory.

 

[toant103]

wow, it's going to take forever for that p200 to do anything. If you have to install sp2, no more hard drive space

 

[OMGoddess]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: OMGoddess

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Waste of time and money.

How? Pop in the Cd, go do something else, come back answer a few questions, if you get to the questions you've pretty much succeded.

Why? I can install my OS of choice in 30 minutes if I take my time (and on slower hardware than that). AND I don't have to spend money on a license to do it.

Who says I paid for the license? I just take a cd and pop it in there, when the 30 day limit is up, format and I'm done.

I'm not gonna sit there and watch it install, I just leave it there and play a game or something.

 

[Monkey muppet]

Originally posted by: toant103
wow, it's going to take forever for that p200 to do anything. If you have to install sp2, no more hard drive space

Installing with a bought copy of XP pro SP2 - it realy is running like a pig, will see if i can find the 98 disk

 

[cronos]

P-II 400 MHz.
128 MB RAM