Win XP on a Celeron

[Boo Radley]

Hi all,

I've been given a copy of XP Professional from work to try, however I'm not sure how well it'll run on a Celeron 500. I don't want to go to the trouble of installing it, only to find it can't handle it. My 98SE set up is cosy, however I'm keen to try XP.

System specs:

Aopen AX63 M/board; 384MB RAM, 10.2GB WD HDD, 32MB Jaton S3 Savage4 video.

The modem & sound card from Netcomm & Aopen have XP drivers. I can't seem to find an XP driver for the video card.

Is it worth trying anyway?

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[mjc]

Try the XP HCL...here (http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp)

Also the 500MHz is with in the minimum requirements for it to run.

The video card may be a problem...you would probably be limited to some thing like 640x480 and low colors (like 256) if it would even run with it at all.....

How much memory do you have?


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[andreadebiase]

hi,
I have it on a Duron 700Mhz and 256Mb of memory. It`s going great. I would install it. 500Mhz is not bad. You will seea bit of slow down but i think it will perform great.


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#!@$*%.....just format the damn C:

[hiredgoonz]

You should be fine...I ran it on a K6-2 500 and it ran perfectly...and with 384mb ram, it will be happy...

As far as drivers...I haven't tried anything on XP yet that it didn't work with except one scanner...

A good example of XP's versatility that should impress most anyone: installed on a Compaq laptop and it had drivers for everything on the system...video, sound, even the proprietary Compaq modem...

If there's one thing good about XP it's wide driver support...

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