XP on old Asus board

[mouse1]

Hi folks...This is the problem, a friend of mine has an old puter with an old Asus board[I don't know exactly which board] but it has 64 meg EDO ram pentium 233 socket 7 cpu one 2 gig hard drive and a 10 gig hard drive, an 8x cd rom......The question is will XP run efectivly on this machine???

[HAL9000]

It may run, but most likely not effectively. Here are the minimum requirements:

Computer/Processor - PC with 300 MHz or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233 MHz minimum required; Intel Pentium/Celeron family, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended.
Memory - 128 MB of RAM or higher recommended (64MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
Hard Disk - Minimum: 1.5 GB of available hard disk space. Actual requirements will vary based on your system configuration and the applications and features you choose to install. Additional available hard-disk space may be required if you are installing over a network. For more information, please see www.microsoft.com/windowsxp.

[mouse1]

Thanks Hal, thats about what I thought ....But his brother loaded XP on his machine and also loaded some graphics intensive game on it and now he is not able to do much at all with it....my thoughts are to format his puter and load win 98se...What do you think....GaryD..

[HAL9000]

98SE is probably the best bet. WinME would be OK too.

[mouse1]

Thanks again Hal, I think I will recomend he dumps XP and goes with 98se, something I can help him with, I'm not to well aquainted with XP, and he is an absolute new comer t the computer world....Thanks again .....GaryD.