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

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