Win XP on a 433mghz pentium with 32mb

[GodKid]

A bredrin o mine is running XP on a laptop with a 433 processor and 32 megs o SD RAM ... now when it booted and ran I was like WOW!... but after I disabled all the gimmicks of XP and brought it down to base classic windows style.. the thing was flying...

booted under 30 secs !!!!! My laptop with it's 1.8 wasn't booting that fast...

btw.. of substantial note.. he does NOT have sp1 loaded ;D

[Ropy]

Microsoft and the Hardware manufactures only wanted us the buy new parts. I know someone who had it running on a 333 celeron.

[deakie]

wait until him afto run something like photoshop or word 2000 and disc paging kill it with the major disc swapping.....hahahahha

[GodKid]

actually Deaks.. he's running office 2k w/out a problem, and him smart enough not to run suppm like photoshop on it :D ;D .. or at least I hope so....

[deakie]

hehehe....give us all hope for the future then... :D

[tech_guru]

A bredrin o mine is running XP on a laptop with a 433 processor and 32 megs o SD RAM ... now when it booted and ran I was like WOW!... but after I disabled all the gimmicks of XP and brought it down to base classic windows style.. the thing was flying...

booted under 30 secs !!!!! My laptop with it's 1.8 wasn't booting that fast...

btw.. of substantial note.. he does NOT have sp1 loaded ;D


Hold up one minute there buster!!!
Windows XP will not install on a PC with less than 64 MB Ram......
Windows 2000 minimum memory is 32 MB not shared..........

So you sure is Windows XP on this notebook and not 2000?

Snip from http://microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/sysreqs.asp

Here's What You Need to Use Windows XP Professional
PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system);* Intel Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended
128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*
Super VGA (800 × 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
CD-ROM or DVD drive
Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device


I have seen situations where XP Pro was installed on 400-500 GHZ PCs and performed adequately but on all occasions the PCs had at least 256 MB RAM.......

[GodKid]

have you tried it tech_guru ... ???

fact is.. lots o the reqs microsoft gives aren't really hard n fast ... the dude I know goes to UTECH and yes.. I actually configured XP on his 32 MB o RAM laptop..

I know of another 2-3 peeps at UWI that I hear are running the same thing.... just try it! ;D

PS: didn't do the install in any of these situations so I don't know how they did it... but what I do know is that I've seen it work!

[tech_guru]

As a matter of fact I have inhadvertently "tried" to do this...........

Didn't work some error of the sort........Windows Xp cannot install on X mb ram please upgrade to xx mb.........

But what I have learned while in the industry if someone out there wants to do something and spend time hacking something then they will do so..........

That said ask your peeps how they accomplished said tasks and if you would please post for the enlightenment of myself.........

[deakie]

then he must have loaded it with 64 and took out 32. its the only logical fact watson. he cheated :D

[GodKid]

quite possuible indeed deaks..

yo guru.. i'll link wid him monday and find out....

i figured it'd give an error as I've seen on 2k installations... but seeing is believing so... ;D

will def post updates

[Nastrodamus]

Give that laptop a few weeks and see what xp will do with it.

Performance decreases as you use it.

[wheelman]

I have seen situations where XP Pro was installed on 400-500 GHZ PCs and performed adequately but on all occasions the PCs had at least 256 MB RAM.......


Shouldn't that be Mhz

[Gwiz]

Give that laptop a few weeks and see what xp will do with it.

Performance decreases as you use it.

I agree give it a few weeks and you will see what XP is made of... everything work fine but after a while the machine will crawl..

[deakie]

thats cause yu load applications....naughty, who gave you lot permission to load apps eh...did yu consult with bill about this?

hehe


actually, do more defrags and setup the page file to delete at shutdown.
next, switch of the ruddy indexing and cataloguing of unwanted places like second harddrives etc.
these are the things xp use to make it appear to be flying. though it could have an effect on yur speed when accessing apps first time etc.
clear yur caches, all of em, there are loads.
do regular preening of apps you dont want. use reg cleaner to dis the apps you dont want hanging around and use it wisely to clean the registry.
i heard that system mechanic is very good at dealing with multiple instances of files hanging around. check it out. they have a freebie version from what i hear.

[Vermanucci]

but after I disabled all the gimmicks of XP and brought it down to base classic windows style.. the thing was flying...


I think by disabling those little gimmicks as you call them is taking away from what windows XP is supposed to be. So having done that its basically not much different from putting a stable version of Win2k on the laptop. Stability which one would use to reliably run intense applications & games. Windows Xp has that advantage over Win2k but its not as if the Laptop would be capable of running such applications with its current specs. :-\ Hence I dont think much has been proven. ::)

Give the Laptop a few weeks & see if he feels teh same way :)

[Cultus]

Well. You guys are very lucky to get win xp on a machine with 32mb of ram. I just tried it and it didn't install at all. Gave me a prompt, saying I need at least 64MB Ram. Is that a customized version of the OS...yuh bredrin using Godkid? ???

[GodKid]

Hey Cultus.. I forgot all about this post.. and I haven't even seen the dude to ask him how he got it on in the first place :-\

I dunno if it' hacked.. but I doubt it.. I should see him this sunday at church so I'll ask him then...

[Xenocrates]

I thought you guys would have figured this out by now.

GodKid, I strongly believe that your friend is running an earlier build of WinXP. None of the current builds, (build 2600 or later) will install on anything with less than 64 mb of RAM. We have a build at the office of Windows XP (pre 2600) that ran on a Pentium 2 333 MHz machine with 32 mb of ram. It barely loads. But our attempts to install the official build of WinXP proved futile. It will not install on a machine with less than 64mb of ram.

The easiest way to check the build number, is to run dxdiag from your Start | Run dialog box. It's on the first page, where it gives general statistics on the computer's properties.

If he is running build 2600, check his memory from the My Computer | Properties. I refuse to believe he installed the official version on a machine with 32 mb. Also, ensure that he is not running the Time-limited evaluation version of XP.

[kknight]

I wonder if he has a copy of xplite?

http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html

I've seen 98 on a 33Mhz 19MB RAM 486dx laptop....