want a 1GHZ chip for that MB ? not officially but as I recall would run 133 fsb. XP should do fine on that, worried about 1 meg. wipe the drive with zap. :-D do fast format.
fred At 08:42 PM 10/16/2008, DHSinclair Poked the stick with: >Trying to build Wxp on a pretty old stack of hdw. >Abit bx6-r2, P2-450, 512mb ram, seagate 160gb pata drive. >Yes, I know, how silly can I be? > >when I started 6 hours ago, bios said the hd was LBA UD33 136gb and >winxp formatted 152618mb. 152.618GB. OK. > >now that I've killed the 1st install that did not complete, >winxp is now formatting 152617mb. 152.617GB. Hmm.....? > >Where did I loose 1mb of disk space? >Should I tool-wash the hd again? >Thanks, >Duncan -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Education which is not modern, faces the organic fate.