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Slow XP?
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. []'s 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)? |
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Slow XP?
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. []'s 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)? C: and D: could be sharing a 160GB IDE drive (GiB versus GB etc). When a person makes a selection like that, they may be attempting to avoid the "137GB address rollover problem" on WinXP Gold and so on. We went from 28 bit LBA to 48 bit LBA sometime around that time. I went through that on Win2K SP2 and "carefully" selected partition sizes for a whole year, without corrupting anything, until it came time to update to SP4+Rollup1Ver2. Back in that era, if you partitioned the entire 160GB drive as C: and it "spanned" the magic 137GB dividing line, one write past the 137GB mark on the large partition, and it would corrupt. And potentially not be recoverable either. A partition can sit on either side of the line, but it's not a good idea for a partition to straddle the line. For partitions fully above the line, the OS knows it's not supposed to touch them (Win2K SP2 wouldn't make a partition out there, if you asked it to). So that's why there's a lonesome 17GB partition sitting there. It doesn't want any parts of its anatomy sliced off by the 28 bit LBA. (The proposal to move from 28 bit to 48 bit...) https://web.archive.org/web/20041024...l/e00101r6.pdf Now, if you use a modern enough SP of Win2K or WinXP, you no longer have to worry about that. If you installed WinXP SP3 from a CD you purchased last week, you can make the partitions any size you want, including making joking references to the (old) 28 bit limit. Paul |
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Slow XP?
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. []'s 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 .... []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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Slow XP?
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. []'s 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 .... []'s 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 ******* 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 |
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Slow XP?
In message , KenK
writes: Paul wrote in news KenK wrote: I have an old Compaq Presario 5000 running XP I got as a gift. It did not include the XP install disk. This system is extremely slow. I DLed and printed several web sites' [] Here's a simple place to start. http://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtune_255.exe [] Is the graph a nice curve, like the promotional picture [] The curve from the HD Tune is very jagged, far up and down close spaced excursions, not wide smooth steps as it should be, Yellow dots very scattered. So HD is shot. Now to decide if system is worth putting in a new HD. No XP install disk so will only be able to run Linux, etc. [] If it's working, however slowly, you don't need an XP install disc to save it with a new HD, only imaging software (Macrium 5 - or, probably, later - will do fine). [Assuming you've got somewhere you can put the image, of course, such as an external HD, and something to read the Macrium boot CD you make.] Whether worth doing is up to you. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf By most scientific estimates sustained, useful fusion is ten years in the future - and will be ten years in the future for the next fifty years or more. - "Hamadryad", ~2016-4-4 |
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