installing ona PII 233

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Help, my friends cannot afford to buy a new computer, je has a packard bell legend supreme 1910 which has a PII 233 MMX processor. I will be upgrading his RAM 10 128. Canl Windows XP be safely installed on this computer. Will Windows XP support this old of a computer or will I have problem after problem installing it.
Thank you,
Brian
 
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| Help, my friends cannot afford to buy a new computer, je has a packard bell legend supreme 1910 which has a
PII 233 MMX processor. I will be upgrading his RAM 10 128. Canl Windows XP be safely installed on this
computer. Will Windows XP support this old of a computer or will I have problem after problem installing it.
| Thank you,
| Brian
 
It would be a waste of time. Packard Bell stopped making computers in US a
long time ago. Finding a XP board driver would be impossible. Be thankful it
will still run Win 98. Jym



bcw1956 said:
Help, my friends cannot afford to buy a new computer, je has a packard
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bell legend supreme 1910 which has a PII 233 MMX processor. I will be
upgrading his RAM 10 128. Canl Windows XP be safely installed on this
computer. Will Windows XP support this old of a computer or will I have
problem after problem installing it.
 
As long as you have 128 Mb of RAM, go for it! I find WinXP runs good as
Win98 on old systems. You can always uninstall.

-Kent
 
I've got XP Pro running on a P350 w/ 96MB Ram and it runs just fine (even
powerful/good enough to burn CD's with, and is faster than the AMD Athlon
700 w/ 128MB Ram that I've got thats running 98SE!!!).

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bcw1956 said:
Help, my friends cannot afford to buy a new computer, je has a packard
Click to expand...
bell legend supreme 1910 which has a PII 233 MMX processor. I will be
upgrading his RAM 10 128. Canl Windows XP be safely installed on this
computer. Will Windows XP support this old of a computer or will I have
problem after problem installing it.
 
bcw1956 said:
Help, my friends cannot afford to buy a new computer, je has a
packard bell legend supreme 1910 which has a PII 233 MMX processor.
I will be upgrading his RAM 10 128. Canl Windows XP be safely
installed on this computer. Will Windows XP support this old of a
computer or will I have problem after problem installing it. Thank
you,
Brian
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Don't bother, it will be too slow. Add the ram and keep 98.
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mines on a 350 (not much faster than a 233) and it's not that slow.......
(faster than 98SE was... on the same machine!)

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Steven said:
mines on a 350 (not much faster than a 233) and it's not that
slow....... (faster than 98SE was... on the same machine!)
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I must be doing something wrong, because I never found a system that runs
faster with XP than it will with 98SE. More stable yes, but faster.....?
Never experienced it.
Plus add in the cost of XP compatible software and possibly hardware, I
would rather throw my money elsewhere. 8-)
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haha nope, definately runs faster aswell. (if it weren't for the fact that I
need 98SE on this machine for my work, and the fact the hard drive is only a
2.5gig, I'd have switched this one over aswell).

As for hardware, the 350 is running;

Intel Pentium II 350
Samsung SyncMaster 3 monitor
ATI 2D Rage Pro AGP 2x graphics card
Fujutsi MP33043AT hard drive (4gig)
Aureal Vortex sound card
Lucent 56K internal modem
NetGear FA311 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Freecom CDRW

The graphics card is actually a PCI one, so lord only knows why it's
displayed as an AGP....lol

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kenny-knight said:
It will work, go for it




bell legend supreme 1910 which has a PII 233 MMX processor. I will be
upgrading his RAM 10 128. Canl Windows XP be safely installed on this
computer. Will Windows XP support this old of a computer or will I have
problem after problem installing it.
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I won't recommend anything, but all I can say is that XP runs lightening fast
on my Commodore vic-20: 1.0227 Mhz processor, 5 Kb ram. I don't
even think it has a hard drive either.
 
It will work, go for it


bcw1956 said:
Help, my friends cannot afford to buy a new computer, je has a packard
Click to expand...
bell legend supreme 1910 which has a PII 233 MMX processor. I will be
upgrading his RAM 10 128. Canl Windows XP be safely installed on this
computer. Will Windows XP support this old of a computer or will I have
problem after problem installing it.
 
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