I bought a new to me Lenovo laptop without a COA or a hard drive so I
loaded XP. In spite of all of the rumors, once I loaded SP3 it linked
up to microsoft, authenticated and downloaded the 155 updates that are
out there for XP.
You do have to load SP3 tho. It will not connect without it.
The only trick was finding the drivers. This machine shipped with 7
and Lenovo did not support XP on all of the adapters. The seller gave
me a good head start with a detailed report of what was in it.
This may end up being a "TV" computer since it has an HDMI output

On 3/29/2017 10:48 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:52:11 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:

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I bought a new to me Lenovo laptop without a COA or a hard drive so I
loaded XP. In spite of all of the rumors, once I loaded SP3 it linked
up to microsoft, authenticated and downloaded the 155 updates that are
out there for XP.
You do have to load SP3 tho. It will not connect without it.
The only trick was finding the drivers. This machine shipped with 7
and Lenovo did not support XP on all of the adapters. The seller gave
me a good head start with a detailed report of what was in it.
This may end up being a "TV" computer since it has an HDMI output



Have you considered running Linix? I hear driver support is better
than it used to be.

I was really close when people were telling me the reason my XP was
not connecting to MS for authentification was that they had turned off
the servers.
I decided that I would just be sure I did everything I normally do and
remembered I forgot to load the SP3 package. That was all it took. In
my search for drivers, I just forgot to do it.
It turns out the assemblers (Lenovo in this care) may not still
support XP on their end but the chip set manufacturers still do. (Even
W/98 and old time DOS)
You just need to figure out what is in there. On a desk top it is not
as hard because you can just read the numbers off the chips but I was
not going to take this laptop apart to do that. Fortunately the seller
had a tool that does it with software and they sent me the report
along with the machine. It really looks like a pretty good deal for
$100 shipped. I5, 2g memory, high performance video with HDMI and the
other stuff you expect with a new laptop. I have another 4g coming
($25). It has a camera but I decided not to even load the driver for
it.

Saves me taping over the lens ;-)



Yabut, the microphone still works. :-)

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:06:38 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:
Saves me taping over the lens ;-)



Yabut, the microphone still works. :-)


Not if you have it turned off in the OS. I go into the sound settings
and turn off everything but the line in so when I am recording stuff,
I don't get any other weird sounds.