Worst hardware you've got XP working with? - Page 3

Iceman · 24th July 2006, 9:01 PM

I had XP on a P1 233(mmx) laptop with 144 mb of ram. High uptimes, just used it for monitoring chat and browsing. It was slow to boot but worked fine.

thormania · 24th July 2006, 9:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Iceman

I had XP on a P1 233(mmx) laptop with 144 mb of ram. High uptimes, just used it for monitoring chat and browsing. It was slow to boot but worked fine.

celeron 300 laptop i think with 64mb of ram, pretty awesome slow

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tin · 24th July 2006, 10:44 PM

My old Toshiba Portege 3010CT... Now, what was it's specs.... Google tells me it's a 266MHz.
Hmmm, Im sure that's not the lowest I've had XP on. I think I had a 166 at one point running it.

I haven't tested this recently (in the past I've done some real time wasting experiments), but Im pretty sure XP (unmodified) will not boot on a 486 or lower. It complains and says it requires a Pentium. And setup will not start with a CPU slower than a certain speed (133 from memory), but you can get arround that with installing on a faster box first

mAJORD · 25th July 2006, 9:21 PM

PII-233mhz thinkpad (laptop)

-96meg ram

Still use it nearly every day alongside this machine, as a companion for runing sqawkbox for flightsim, while I run the game on this machine in fullscreen.

slowww, but very surprisingly workable.

I took it to a lan the other day and forgot it in the back seat.
Went flying round a corner at mach 5 and it slammed into the opposite door.

I thought it was the end after so many yrs, but nup, she still runs fine!

BeStRaFe · 25th July 2006, 9:53 PM

Acer 200Mhz 64MB RAM

Worked Great.... shame it only had a 4GB HDD!

blakeg · 25th July 2006, 9:59 PM

166mhz with 98 mb ram

lol it ran sooo much better with xp than 2000
i used that lappy alot for typing and shit..
it was quite barable as long as you kept it simple
RIP old acer lappy.. leaving you alone in my high school was a mistake..

guidos · 26th July 2006, 9:22 AM

To further what I said recently, I ended up using the old laptop the other day. XP SP2 installed on an old P2/266 laptop with 192mb RAM. Most of the new UI features turned off (cleartype was on), system restore turned off and the Security Centre service disabled. Firewall was still on. 68mb of Memory in use when booted up. Even less if I go and disable other unneeded services. Boots and logs in etc far quicker than 2000 on the same machine - I'd say in at least half the time.

I find the same at work... even on old servers (dual P3/550's etc), 2k3 server is much quicker at almost everything than 2k server.

The Brat Prince · 26th July 2006, 6:59 PM

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Originally Posted by dakiller

166mhz 64mb 2gb hd

Same system here

24th July 2006, 9:01 PM	#31
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24th July 2006, 10:44 PM	#33
tin Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Narrabri NSW Posts: 5,653	My old Toshiba Portege 3010CT... Now, what was it's specs.... Google tells me it's a 266MHz. Hmmm, Im sure that's not the lowest I've had XP on. I think I had a 166 at one point running it. I haven't tested this recently (in the past I've done some real time wasting experiments), but Im pretty sure XP (unmodified) will not boot on a 486 or lower. It complains and says it requires a Pentium. And setup will not start with a CPU slower than a certain speed (133 from memory), but you can get arround that with installing on a faster box first __________________ ©®£¤¥±²³¶µ»«¼½¾¿§ The software required Win95 or better, so I installed Linux. Question marks are the new full stop?

25th July 2006, 9:53 PM	#35
BeStRaFe Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Sydney, NSW Posts: 207	Acer 200Mhz 64MB RAM Worked Great.... shame it only had a 4GB HDD! __________________ Server: AMD 8320 @ 4.2Ghz, 16GB DDR3 1600 Corsair 24 x 3TB Hitachi 7.2K RPM Areca RAID Controller, Norco RPC4224, Some 750W PSU Recent Trades:yods, CVonV, iXeR0, GeniusYou, Umbrella Corp, jaepee36

25th July 2006, 9:59 PM	#36
blakeg Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Port Maq Posts: 1,149	166mhz with 98 mb ram lol it ran sooo much better with xp than 2000 i used that lappy alot for typing and shit.. it was quite barable as long as you kept it simple RIP old acer lappy.. leaving you alone in my high school was a mistake.. __________________ 1990 Aus Delivered Widebody GT4 1993 UZZ31 Soarer V8 Manual

25th July 2006, 9:21 PM	#34
mAJORD Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Griffin , Brisbane Posts: 6,727	PII-233mhz thinkpad (laptop) -96meg ram Still use it nearly every day alongside this machine, as a companion for runing sqawkbox for flightsim, while I run the game on this machine in fullscreen. slowww, but very surprisingly workable. I took it to a lan the other day and forgot it in the back seat. Went flying round a corner at mach 5 and it slammed into the opposite door. I thought it was the end after so many yrs, but nup, she still runs fine!

26th July 2006, 9:22 AM	#37
guidos Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Adelaide Posts: 87	To further what I said recently, I ended up using the old laptop the other day. XP SP2 installed on an old P2/266 laptop with 192mb RAM. Most of the new UI features turned off (cleartype was on), system restore turned off and the Security Centre service disabled. Firewall was still on. 68mb of Memory in use when booted up. Even less if I go and disable other unneeded services. Boots and logs in etc far quicker than 2000 on the same machine - I'd say in at least half the time. I find the same at work... even on old servers (dual P3/550's etc), 2k3 server is much quicker at almost everything than 2k server.