Shadow wrote:
On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 19:55:41 -0700, "Bill in Co"
wrote:

KenK wrote:
Shadow wrote in
:

On 2 Jan 2018 16:39:39 GMT, KenK wrote:

I have an old Compaq Presario 5000 running XP I got as a gift. It did
not include the XP install disk.
Specs ?

Download Speccy portable

https://www.piriform.com/speccy/builds

And tell us what it says.
RAM could be anything from 64MB to 1GB, CPU from a 600 Celeron
to a 1.6 Pentium ....
Video will also impact performance.
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My Computer sez:

Internal C - 133G
Internal D - 17G
Extenal G - 1 T

Oddly, My Computer in this system only provides drive info. System in
Control Panel sez:

Speed 1.59 GHz
512 MB RAM
XP Home Version 2002
I think if you added another 512 MB you'd be fine even with XP (with a 1.6
GHz CPU), and wouldn't have to go to Linux, unless you really wanted to (but
why?). I also found it curious that D: was only 17GB. I wonder why it's
that low (or maybe its just the partition size, and not a separate HD)?

If he adds 512 MB it would describe my PC.
Dual booting XP and Devuan ....
No, it's not slow.
OTOH the OP's HD is probably PATA and video on-board ? That
would slow things down ....
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If the motherboard has AGP, you can add a video card.

However, the market doesn't have a lot of AGP cards for sale.

For a while, they were using PCI Express GPUs and gluing Rialto to them,
and making an AGP card. This required a custom driver, and a side effect,
was you didn't get a lot of driver releases to choose from. Both NVidia
and ATI ran out of their "glue" chip, so they could no longer make hybrid
video cards.

That leaves products such as the NVidia 6200, which was one of their last
chips with native interfaces (no glue needed). But the price of these has
shot up a lot, so it's best to go looking locally for a surplus one.

https://www.amazon.com/ECS-nVidia-Ge.../dp/B003JBHLQI

The best primer on mix-n-match AGP is here. At least you'll see some
product numbers, even if the list isn't complete (you won't see an
HD3450 AGP hybrid here with a Rialto). *If you're new to AGP, start here*

http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html

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The x1950 in the list, was available mainly as a PCI Express.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages...-review,1.html

This is the AGP version. The Rialto is on the back - the giveaway
is the "pink goo" around it :-) That's how you know it's a Rialto.
A custom driver is likely to be used with this. The PCI Express
one would use a "standard" driver, but of course the PCI
Express one wouldn't fit in KenKs computer. These are fun to
look at, like a muscle car you can't afford.

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphi...pgrade/?page=4

So if you did manage to find a hybrid card, the (missing) entry
on Playtool would make it similar to the x1950 entry.

Paul