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OT: Will Windows XP work on old PIII
Posted by Bill in VA [Email] (more from Bill in VA) on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:28:38
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I have an old Pentium III 450 PC running Win98SE as a second machine. It is good for period games, surfing and MS Office 2000 Pro. It had developed corrupted TCP/IP networking so I bought a new machine and will relegate it to second line duty. It still works fine with dialup, but cannot use the cable modem due to the networking problem. Fixes short of a re-install have not worked.
Rather than do a reinstall of Win98SE and the endless Windows updates, I was thinking of upgrading to XP Home SP2 so I can share teh cable modem via the router. Any of you running XP Home on that old a machine? I have 512MB memory and 20GB HDD. I do not use it for any music or CD ripping or movies. I assume it will be slow, but will it be slow overall or just take 5 minutes to boot? All the hardware is supported by XP.
I was going to do a Linux install, but so far, only Ubuntu 5.04 appears to work on a LiveCD, the SuSE LiveDVD boots but then shuts down.
So I am asking about the XP for the old P-III soldier. Thanks.
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Posts in this Thread:
- OT: Will Windows XP work on old PIII, Bill in VA, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:28:38 <-- Viewing This Message
- Windows XP should work on an old PIII but....., TKC, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:27:29
- it will work fine, but make sure to turn the eye candy, Canadian_Saab, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:25:00
- Re: OT: Will Windows XP work on old PIII, IronJoe, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:37:26
- Re: OT: Will Windows XP work on old PIII, cryptical, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:30:02
- Re: OT: Will Windows XP work on old PIII, Drew in Houston, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:02:10
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