kurt476 Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 i got ah simlar system too i have ah 550 Mhz pc and 192 MBs of Ram and all the stuff as well cd-rw and floppy drive and 3 hdds. soon i will be upgrading the memory mory too may ah gig that's later too come anyways and i have ah matrox video card build in by the way it works fine for me anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D22 Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 i too am running xp on a pIII 500 with 256 of ram a 40Gig partitioned 4 times and a 8Mb Matrox AGP card and it runs great, i used a nlited XP and tweaked it using black viper's page. got it running 18 processes and using only 67.8Mb of ram, but you may want to put at least two partitions on your drive one for your OS and one dedicated to just a swap file. here is how i am running mine (Partition 1 -5200Mb= C:\Win98SE, Partition 2 -5200Mb= D:\WinXP, Partition3 -2500Mb=E:\SWAP, Partition 4 27xxxMB= F:\Stuff) i decided to run dual boot to mess around with it and i can say the system runs great, i play qauke III on it all the time when i'm not on my Main PC and i've seen XP that isnt nlited run flawlessly on a Pentium 233 with 320Mb of ram, only problem was it was a long slow process actually getting into your logon fully loaded up and ready to go, but after that it worked great, but it (XP) runs awesome on anything faster then a 233 with (my minimum requirement-->) 256 of Ram but you can run it on 128 since it says so itself, but my suggestion is definatly nlite it and viper it.~D~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonu27 Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 Upgrade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJurgensen Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 I Have a Pentium 2 350 MHz and 320 MB of RAM. Xp Runs like a dream compared to the P4 HTs we have at my school. It runs faster and more stable (behind a hardware firewall- linksys) than my 98se and Me setups on identical computers. They all are Gateway E-3200s I aquired after a local school upgraded they're computers. I have the same hardware, memory sticks, and use the same power outlets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajaypitroda Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 XP rules, upgrade to xp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix0978 Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 hate to break all your parties with your old P1's under 1ghz people lol. Rolling on my P4 2.8 512 mb Windows XP SP2! lol just joshing. I give respect to you all!But i would definitly upgrade. XP is just over all more stable. And for reference i would go with XP Professional SP2. I have home and i always wanted Professinol lol. Theres really no big difference between the 2 except for connection to a domain and professional has Group Policy which home version doesnt. And all the programs are moving up and most updated programs run more smoothly on updated OS systems. Go for the upgrade!Oh and i would also definitly upgrade to 256 or 512 mb Then your computer will be unstoppable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajaypitroda Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 go for XP pro SP2. i m running on cel333, 256MB, 440LX, nvidia 128ZX AGP, 10.2GB + 32GB, 32X CDROM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix0978 Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Windows XP is so good it even makes the older computer look good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickytwista Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Windows XP is so good it even makes the older computer look good <{POST_SNAPBACK}>ya u are correct acctually..i even got xp pro with sp2 on a old pentium II 266..bit slow but **** stable....yup screw win me ..go with xp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonu27 Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 When I moved for WinME to WinXP, huge speed boast!No more stupid errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumukh Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Hi jeeva, I will go for Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Both are very good. However you can refer following article on Windows ME.http://www.cheapest-computer-hardware-soft...Me-upgrade.htmlRegardsSumukh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverHaze420 Posted May 30, 2005 Share Posted May 30, 2005 I would go with XP as well, turn off all the pretty features, put it in classic mode and turn off un-needed services and go to the computer advanced propertied performance tab and tune for best performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siginet Posted May 30, 2005 Share Posted May 30, 2005 WinME is one of the worst Windows OSes ever made.I agree with most when I say go WinXP.I also would recomend bumping up your memory though. I would recommend 512 MB RAM or at least 256 MB RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brando569 Posted May 30, 2005 Share Posted May 30, 2005 I would go with XP as well, turn off all the pretty features, put it in classic mode and turn off un-needed services and go to the computer advanced propertied performance tab and tune for best performance<{POST_SNAPBACK}>took the words right outta my mouth! wouldnt hurt to get atleast 256mb rams cheap nowadays i just bought 2x256mb ddr 333mhz from Transcend and it was like $50! now if you want extremely good memory (corsair) that gonna cost ya some.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeeva Posted May 30, 2005 Author Share Posted May 30, 2005 HelloThanks for your opinions and sorry, that I didn't reply so far.To update you, I have replaced my whole system, the P3 made it to the cellar now a 900 MHz Athlon with 256 Megs of RAM is here, no integrated s... as mentioned in one of the past post, a GF 2 GTS and Creative Live! is in there, 40 GB Harddisk now with 98 but also on the way to XP, I know this machine is eqipped with enough ressources to run XP, but I need my TV card to work, it's a Hauppauge WinTV Theater, there are drivers, but nothing seems to work, as I cannot get Overlay Support, because it needs direct access to the Hardware. Anyone knows something about it?However, the second question, can I stream better with XP? A performance question, I tried with Windows Media Encoder 7.1 on 98 to stream live TV to the net so I can watch TV over Wireless LAN with my notebook, but I cannot reach the TV resolution of 768x576 pixels without serious pauses and stops. With XP I can use WME 9.0, so has somebody experience with that?If I can either watch TV with Full Screen or if I can stream, then I'm ready to move over.Thanks to all Good comunity.Jeeva Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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