Old Toshiba Satellite

[gamehead200]

K, I have a Toshiba Satellite lying around in my room which is about 2-3 years old. It was designed for Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000 Professional. Would it work if I installed XP?

[FthrJACK]

****!! did it crash through your roof?

how bigs the hard disc?

[gamehead200]

I thought you guys would be more serious than that...The HD is 6GB and a bit....I'm sure it'll be less when II format!

[FthrJACK]

what are its specs gamehead, sorry i couldnt resist the gag.

how much ram, cpu speed? and hard disc size, then i can give you and idea how it will run xp.

why not give a linux distro a go on it, if you have a pc that has XP already, use the toshiba for experimenting...

[gamehead200]

K, I don't wanna use Linux (even though I have the CDs) cuz the laptop has a DVD player and I dunno if it would work with Linux...Here are it's specs...

Windows 98 SE

6 GB Hard Drive

192 MB RAM

P3 @ (about) 600 MHz

Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-C2402

S3 Inc. Savage/IX w/MV Video Card

Toshiba Internal V.90 Modem

Toshiba ToPIC100 CardBus Controller (PCMCIA Socket)

Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller

Maestro Wave/WaveTable Synthesis Devices

BTW, I also have a 10/100 Integrated PC Card for my network, made by Linksys (Etherfast 10/100 Integrated PC Card)

This laptop is seriously screwed up and I would like to install XP to get rid of all of it. Can I install it without any problems?

One more thing, on the label on my laptop, it says "Designed for Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro. , Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 98".

[XPerties]

yep, you cant install XP on it. No problems.

[Aaron]

Looking at your specs, its more than enough to run XP on it

[gamehead200]

OK, all I will need to install (cuz I ran the compatibility wizard) is my Power Saver (how can i...) and my USB Disk Controller (might need additional software?). Thanx guys! I'll get right to it...*Gamehead200 zooms off to his laptop*!

[gamehead200]

Oh, one more thing, does XP adjust its the size of my laptop screen or do I have to do it (with 98, it was already configured). I don't mean the resolution, I mean like stretching the image, slanting it, u no, like on a regular monitor?

[Drewdatrip]

YEa Gamehead it should automatically size up the moniter....once in windows you can modify the resolution and all that stuff

=Drew

[gamehead200]

Thanx Drew! One more thing, before I replied to this post, I posted another topic and right when I was about to reply to this topic, I got a flood control warning...Why does it think I'm flooding when I'm not even replying in the same topic?

[gamehead200]

Great! Everything works fine, even my USB ! Now all I need is an DVD encoder....

BTW, when I change my resolution from 800x600 to the next one, the laptop screen can't fit the whole screen...Is there a way to fix this??

[FthrJACK]

i would maybe add some ram, but it will be fine unless you do anything "heafty" with it, eg play games or run a lot of CPU intensive apps a lot.

[gamehead200]

No, this will be my slideshow and DVD viewing computer !

[Drewdatrip]

Thanx Drew!  One more thing, before I replied to this post, I posted another topic and right when I was about to reply to this topic, I got a flood control warning...Why does it think I'm flooding when I'm not even replying in the same topic?

Well for double posting safty we have a flood control interval set to about 30 seconds..so if you try to post more then once in 30 secs, it will give you that error message....thats probly what happened

=Drew