Lob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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I was told it will NOT run XP
Why would it not run XP? You have enough disk, you have enough RAM...the fine points of this are over my head.
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Well it is (quite rightly so) branded as a 'Time' computer
and I seem to remember they had some compatiblity problems
When you install XP it checks the compatibility of your hardware
and whether drivers exist . . .
Is this like one of those networking things wherein the local clocks needs to be synched within x number of minutes of the main clock or else things don't work?
The source of the incompatibility may have been sorted in the recent
free XP SP (security patch) disk
Love those free patches. Imagine if M$ charged for their fixes!
- now this may seem odd - especially as Linux WILL run on it
but I also found that I could not use the 512 meg ram in the old machine
but it worked OK in the new (they have the same 2 simm slots and they SHOULD both run it)
Odd... I don't understand the vagueries of RAM and what works with what at all... That partly explains why my laptop NELL has only 48 mb RAM.
At the moment I have one partition of 10 meg (40 meg available)
and getting Win 98SE will be the first task
:-)
A new year, a new computer. That feels just about right.
love and peace,
joyce
PS - A question for AVG users. I am starting to get nags from them to upgrade to their new free version or else purchase new professional version... Has anyone done that yet here? Report, please?
I don't like the idea of the nag program running in the background - it is just another TSR that consumes resources but don;t know how to disable it... There is an option to decline and then be reminded again in 5 days...
Lob
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