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03-30-2006, 04:32 PM
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Best Operating system for IBM Intellistation?
I recently acquired an IBM Intellistation M Pro off lease with no installed operating system. I am hoping someone can offer recommendations for the best operating system to install to take full advantage full of the workstation. Hardware is:
Dual Xenon 2.2 ghz processors 2gig pc800 rdram 2 120 gig ide hard drives 1 36 gig scsi hard drive NVIDIA Quado4 900xgl video card w/ 128meg ram plus the usual optical drives The system originally ran on Window 2000 Professional which is no longer available direct from IBM. So no recovery possible for the original OEM software and COA. As setting up my work computers is a quick as possible means to an end I'd prefer Windows of some type just because of familiarity - I don't want to spend lots of time learning set up for Linnux or other OS options. Any thoughts out there? Thanks in advance |
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03-30-2006, 04:36 PM
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Your only real choices are between Win2k and WinXP Pro .. I'd suggest going the XP Pro route since you'll get a longer support cycle and better compatibility.
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03-30-2006, 05:33 PM
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Follow up question
I'm fairly new to this so I may be over thinking - will the newly installed OS find the drivers for hard drives, video card etc in the system(?) or will I need to get these as well?
Or - any thoughts on an alternative - is it possible the OEM operating system is still on one of the formatted drives and recoverable? If so any thoughts on where I can get a recovery disk. IBM has no more and so offered no help. |
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03-30-2006, 08:41 PM
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You can download all the drivers you need for Win2000 - but they do NOT list any drivers for XP. Buy a copy of 2000 off Ebay or *borrow* a copy if you have a COA.
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03-30-2006, 10:11 PM
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XP should already contain those drivers. If it does not, post back. The solution is always out there somewhere...
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