lowest system requirements for XP

[kev7555]

A rather ridiculous question, but keep in mind it comes from a greenie (only 5 years experience) user.

I've read minimum system requirements for XP but I loaded XP PRO (at his request) into my nephew's 300 Mhz Dell laptop with only a 6 Gig drive and it runs. It runs a bit slow, but it runs. I don't remember how much RAM he had in the thing but it was originally loaded with Win 98.

I spent the last year or so messing around with older slow computers that were running Win 95 or 98 and did a lot of upgrading (call this "self education" if you will).

I'm just wondering if anyone here has run XP on an even more limited system then the previously-mentioned Dell? I know: "Why would you want to"?...but I'm just the type who likes to experiment.

Like the man says: "If it works, fix it anyway".


-Kev

[bailey]

I would not recommend trying it on anything less than what you have.
tryint to get it to run can be a big waste of time.
you may be lucky to get it to boot up, but it will never be able to run correctly, with out the minium amount of ram and hard drive space.

[kev7555]

Well, not to be argumentative, but we've already loaded it into a system that has less then the advertised minimum requirements and it seems to run well. I'm just trying to figure out what the ABSOLUTE minimum will be before it actually starts to fail some processes.

I'm only trying this because I have about seven or eight old, outdated computers floating around here that I love playing with. I guess it's time to just "bite the bullet" and then report back the results. It might be fun.

-Kev

[Urban Earth]

I am running it on a p3 450, with 320 ram. It runs but is slow. I think that the processor type will be the point of limitation.

AJ

[kev7555]

Yeah, I ran it previously on my nephew's laptop with only a 300 MHz processor, but now I'm having problems with it on a 550 MHz AMD K-6 with 192 RAM. The system runs well, but will not see my network hardware.

One thing after another...

[kev7555]

Network hardware problem was just a loose PCI connection with the board. Now it's time to try running it on one of these old 300 Mhz Gateways I have laying around here.

I'm a glutton for punishment.


-Kev

[Floppyman]

I run Win2k SP4 on a IBM laptop with a PII 400mhz, 192mb ram and 6 gig hdd. It runs ok, but once a few applications are open it will slow down quickly and start using the swapfile.

I guess my point here is that might be ok for small simple tasks, but anything other than that and it will really begin to slow down.

HTH