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The Great OS Upodate
On Fri, 30 Nov 07, PhantMan wrote:
I have an AMD Athlon XP sticker on the front of the desktop box but no idea what the clock speed is. Ooookie doke. Thanks guys for the suggestions. This handy dandy little thingy I downloaded is telling me my processor runs at 1.67 gigahertz. It's old but faster than I thought it was. And 736 megs of RAM. So if XP Home requires about the same as XP Pro (the link upthread says XP Pro needs 300 Megahertz clockspeed), I guess I'm good to go. I found XP Home -Full Version- (not OEM or Upgrade) New on PriceGrabber dot com for about $90. Does that sound about right? I was expecting a lower price for XP since Vista came out. But.. -shrug- Thanks again, Rick |
The Great OS Upodate
JimH wrote:
wrote in message ... On Fri, 30 Nov 07, PhantMan wrote: I have an AMD Athlon XP sticker on the front of the desktop box but no idea what the clock speed is. Ooookie doke. Thanks guys for the suggestions. This handy dandy little thingy I downloaded is telling me my processor runs at 1.67 gigahertz. It's old but faster than I thought it was. And 736 megs of RAM. So if XP Home requires about the same as XP Pro (the link upthread says XP Pro needs 300 Megahertz clockspeed), I guess I'm good to go. I found XP Home -Full Version- (not OEM or Upgrade) New on PriceGrabber dot com for about $90. Does that sound about right? I was expecting a lower price for XP since Vista came out. But.. -shrug- Thanks again, Rick XP Pro and Home have the same system requirements. $90 is an OK price. When folks started scaring me about that nasty VISTA OS that my son's laptop was loaded with I started to shop around for a copy of XP and $90 seems about the price I was finding. Here is a nice free program that tells you everything about your computer, programs and updates: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html Have a nice weekend. I am "almost" finished with the outdoor Christmas decorations......just one more small project and I can then rest. ;-) Don't forget to send me that box of homemade cookies. |
The Great OS Upodate
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:45:51 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:
wrote in message ... We really count on our systems here to earn a living. We take them apart often, before they shut down. My SO's desktop is actually harder than mine to clean as she is also a smoker. We also back up and format, reload software on a regular basis, just as a precaution. Most of our computers are dedicated to specific types of software/function so only the play boxes get bogged down really, like this one. (Satellite A-135) You guys motivated me to take this laptop apart and clean it. It's a three year old HP Pavilion zd8000 that has performed flawlessly since I got it. Anyway, I shut it down, carefully turned it upside down and removed all the accessible screws. No way would it come apart. After several attempts, the "leave well enough alone" buzzer went off in my head. I removed a couple of covers (the ram bay and the harddrive bay), hooked up a little computer vacuum gizmo that came with a hand-held Oreck vacuum cleaner and carefully vacuumed whatever dust I could get to with the little brush. Put the screws back in and decided to forget about it. Eisboch Maybe this will help: http://tinyurl.com/2bbans -- John H |
The Great OS Upodate (old post revisited)
"HK" wrote in message . .. Well, I am taking the plunge. I am updating my old IBM T23 laptop from Win2k to WINXP Pro. It's a great little laptop, though technology long passed it by, and at the moment it only has 384KB of memory. If the update "takes," I'll update the RAM to 512KB. This is the machine I let household guests use. Gosh, if it works out, I'll be as up to date OS-wise as the great computer gurus here. Or he http://www.eisboch.com/techsupport.jpg Eisboch :-) |
The Great OS Upodate (old post revisited)
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:07:31 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:
"HK" wrote in message ... Well, I am taking the plunge. I am updating my old IBM T23 laptop from Win2k to WINXP Pro. It's a great little laptop, though technology long passed it by, and at the moment it only has 384KB of memory. If the update "takes," I'll update the RAM to 512KB. This is the machine I let household guests use. Gosh, if it works out, I'll be as up to date OS-wise as the great computer gurus here. Or he http://www.eisboch.com/techsupport.jpg Here's some Vista error messages http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictures/error3.jpg http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictures/errorts7.jpg |
The Great OS Upodate (old post revisited)
Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message . .. Well, I am taking the plunge. I am updating my old IBM T23 laptop from Win2k to WINXP Pro. It's a great little laptop, though technology long passed it by, and at the moment it only has 384KB of memory. If the update "takes," I'll update the RAM to 512KB. This is the machine I let household guests use. Gosh, if it works out, I'll be as up to date OS-wise as the great computer gurus here. Or he http://www.eisboch.com/techsupport.jpg Eisboch :-) Isn't that a great photo? :) That particular T23 now has a new home. |
The Great OS Upodate (old post revisited)
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:39:31 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:07:31 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote: "HK" wrote in message m... Well, I am taking the plunge. I am updating my old IBM T23 laptop from Win2k to WINXP Pro. It's a great little laptop, though technology long passed it by, and at the moment it only has 384KB of memory. If the update "takes," I'll update the RAM to 512KB. This is the machine I let household guests use. Gosh, if it works out, I'll be as up to date OS-wise as the great computer gurus here. Or he http://www.eisboch.com/techsupport.jpg Here's some Vista error messages http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictures/error3.jpg http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictures/errorts7.jpg I love that second one. It'll get sent around the world soon! -- John *H* (Not the other one!) |
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