Help with pc upgrade

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OrmesbyJohn

Just received nice new Abit board. Going to install this, together
with new PSU, Athlon XP cpu, graphics card, memory units and new Western
Digital
120gb hard drive into existing box.
This being my first upgrade I'd be glad of advice....

The OS I have is Win98.
1.Does the team think it will be sensible to persist with the 1998/1999
vintage Win98 on this pc upgrade or are there many advantages in biting the
bullet and purchasing and installing a new XP Home OS at this time?
2.I noticed a local outlet has XP Home software for sale at low price. Its
classed as OEM though ...would that be ok?...And will I be able to do the
initial boot from the CD or would I still need a boot floppy even with XP?

Thanks.
 
OrmesbyJohn said:
Just received nice new Abit board. Going to install this, together
with new PSU, Athlon XP cpu, graphics card, memory units and new
Western Digital 120gb hard drive into existing box. This being my
first upgrade I'd be glad of advice....

The OS I have is Win98. 1.Does the team think it will be sensible to
persist with the 1998/1999 vintage Win98 on this pc upgrade
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Definitely not.
or are there many advantages in biting the bullet and purchasing and
installing a new XP Home OS at this time?
Definitely.

2.I noticed a local outlet has XP Home software for sale at low
price. Its classed as OEM though
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Dunno, if it's OEM it won't come in a pretty green box just a
shrink-warpped CD, CoA, and some other paperwork.
...would that be ok?
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Yes, except that legally you can't transfer it to another machine once
it's been installed - even if you uninstall it from this machine (e.g.
if you build a new PC in the future, I'm not talking about multiple
installs, which is illegal even with the Retail version).
...And will I be able to do the initial boot from the CD
Yes

or would I still need a boot floppy even with XP?
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You mean boot *floppies*; there's 6 of them for XP :-)
 
Parish said:
Dunno, if it's OEM it won't come in a pretty green box just a
shrink-warpped CD, CoA, and some other paperwork.
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Duh! Sorry 'bout the strange answer, I (mis)read your post as "Is it
classed as OEM...."
 
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Thanks for advice.
Job now done.
Decided to be cautious...added the minimum to start with then unit by unit
thereafter.
Also got XP (OEM) and that helped...no boot up floppies required...and held
hand through the hard drive partitioning and formatting procedure.
 
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