Has anybody used XPsp2 on a Dan pentium 2 before?

[George]

Hi
I'm trying to find out if XP will work properly on a Dan Pentium 2 333Mhz.
Microsoft say that it should work fine, but I'm worried that some of the
hardware might not work with xp drivers.

Has anybody actually used this model with xp?

[Rock]

George wrote:

> Hi
> I'm trying to find out if XP will work properly on a Dan Pentium 2 333Mhz.
> Microsoft say that it should work fine, but I'm worried that some of the
> hardware might not work with xp drivers.
>
> Has anybody actually used this model with xp?
>
>

Ask the manufacturer whether it can be take XP and if they installed OEM
hardware then check their web site for SP2 drivers. If they installed
commercial hardware find out what kind of hardware is inside and check
on the hardware manufacturer's web site for the drivers. Run the
upgrade advisor. If your connection it is on the installation CD or
download it. If it's too big to download then get a friend who has
broadband to download it.

[Mike Hall]

Does Dan still exist as a company?.. do an online compatibility check
first..

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/upgrading/checkcompat.mspx


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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user

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"George" > wrote in message
...
> Hi
> I'm trying to find out if XP will work properly on a Dan Pentium 2 333Mhz.
> Microsoft say that it should work fine, but I'm worried that some of the
> hardware might not work with xp drivers.
>
> Has anybody actually used this model with xp?
>

[Ken Blake]

In ,
George > typed:

> I'm trying to find out if XP will work properly on a Dan
> Pentium 2
> 333Mhz. Microsoft say that it should work fine, but I'm worried
> that
> some of the hardware might not work with xp drivers.
>
> Has anybody actually used this model with xp?


A 333MHz machine is at the very bottom of the acceptable scale
for Windows XP. But even more important than CPU speed is the
amount of RAM. How much RAM do you have? Unless it's least 256MB,
even if it ran, you'd very likely find its speed unacceptable.

But run the free Microsoft Upgrade Advisor at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/advisor.asp

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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[Christopher]

"Ken Blake" > wrote in message
...
> In ,
> George > typed:
>
>> I'm trying to find out if XP will work properly on a Dan Pentium 2
>> 333Mhz. Microsoft say that it should work fine, but I'm worried that
>> some of the hardware might not work with xp drivers.
>>
>> Has anybody actually used this model with xp?
>
>
> A 333MHz machine is at the very bottom of the acceptable scale for Windows
> XP. But even more important than CPU speed is the amount of RAM. How much
> RAM do you have? Unless it's least 256MB, even if it ran, you'd very
> likely find its speed unacceptable.
>
> But run the free Microsoft Upgrade Advisor at
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/advisor.asp
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup

Hi Ken
I have just tried it, and I do have 250mb ram, it was a clean install and no
other aps were on it, but it hung when I went to open a help file and when I
clicked on a few other areas, it was slow and hung, once it popped up "not
respnoding" in the way that it happens when you overload a computer.

I don't know if you remember using 98SE and if you had quite a few apps on
your computer and you frequently had several aps open like maybe an FTP
program plus outlook plus word then you would start to see this kind of
"hanging behavior", that is how it appeared.

So it seems it won't work reliably. The whole point of using xp was that I
thought it would be more reliable and stable than XP
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