On Fri, 30 Nov 07, PhantMan wrote:
I have an AMD Athlon XP sticker on the front of the desktop box but no
idea what the clock speed is.

Ooookie doke. Thanks guys for the suggestions.
This handy dandy little thingy I downloaded is telling me my processor
runs at 1.67 gigahertz. It's old but faster than I thought it was. And
736 megs of RAM. So if XP Home requires about the same as XP Pro (the
link upthread says XP Pro needs 300 Megahertz clockspeed), I guess I'm
good to go.
I found XP Home -Full Version- (not OEM or Upgrade) New on
PriceGrabber dot com for about $90. Does that sound about right? I
was expecting a lower price for XP since Vista came out. But.. -shrug-

Thanks again,
Rick

JimH wrote:
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On Fri, 30 Nov 07, PhantMan wrote:
I have an AMD Athlon XP sticker on the front of the desktop box but no
idea what the clock speed is.
Ooookie doke. Thanks guys for the suggestions.
This handy dandy little thingy I downloaded is telling me my processor
runs at 1.67 gigahertz. It's old but faster than I thought it was. And
736 megs of RAM. So if XP Home requires about the same as XP Pro (the
link upthread says XP Pro needs 300 Megahertz clockspeed), I guess I'm
good to go.
I found XP Home -Full Version- (not OEM or Upgrade) New on
PriceGrabber dot com for about $90. Does that sound about right? I
was expecting a lower price for XP since Vista came out. But.. -shrug-

Thanks again,
Rick

XP Pro and Home have the same system requirements.

$90 is an OK price. When folks started scaring me about that nasty VISTA
OS that my son's laptop was loaded with I started to shop around for a copy
of XP and $90 seems about the price I was finding.

Here is a nice free program that tells you everything about your computer,
programs and updates:

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Have a nice weekend. I am "almost" finished with the outdoor Christmas
decorations......just one more small project and I can then rest. ;-)




Don't forget to send me that box of homemade cookies.

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:45:51 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


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We really count on our systems here to earn a living. We take them
apart often, before they shut down. My SO's desktop is actually harder
than mine to clean as she is also a smoker. We also back up and
format, reload software on a regular basis, just as a precaution. Most
of our computers are dedicated to specific types of software/function
so only the play boxes get bogged down really, like this one.
(Satellite A-135)

You guys motivated me to take this laptop apart and clean it.
It's a three year old HP Pavilion zd8000 that has performed flawlessly since
I got it.

Anyway, I shut it down, carefully turned it upside down and removed all the
accessible screws. No way would it come apart. After several attempts, the
"leave well enough alone" buzzer went off in my head. I removed a couple of
covers (the ram bay and the harddrive bay), hooked up a little computer
vacuum gizmo that came with a hand-held Oreck vacuum cleaner and carefully
vacuumed whatever dust I could get to with the little brush.

Put the screws back in and decided to forget about it.

Eisboch


Maybe this will help: http://tinyurl.com/2bbans
--
John H

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:20:07 -0500, " JimH" ask wrote:


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On Fri, 30 Nov 07, PhantMan wrote:
I have an AMD Athlon XP sticker on the front of the desktop box but no
idea what the clock speed is.

Ooookie doke. Thanks guys for the suggestions.
This handy dandy little thingy I downloaded is telling me my processor
runs at 1.67 gigahertz. It's old but faster than I thought it was. And
736 megs of RAM. So if XP Home requires about the same as XP Pro (the
link upthread says XP Pro needs 300 Megahertz clockspeed), I guess I'm
good to go.
I found XP Home -Full Version- (not OEM or Upgrade) New on
PriceGrabber dot com for about $90. Does that sound about right? I
was expecting a lower price for XP since Vista came out. But.. -shrug-

Thanks again,
Rick

XP Pro and Home have the same system requirements.

$90 is an OK price. When folks started scaring me about that nasty VISTA
OS that my son's laptop was loaded with I started to shop around for a copy
of XP and $90 seems about the price I was finding.

Here is a nice free program that tells you everything about your computer,
programs and updates:

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Have a nice weekend. I am "almost" finished with the outdoor Christmas
decorations......just one more small project and I can then rest. ;-)


I'll bet they're beautiful! Post a picture 'over there' when you get done.
--
John H

"HK" wrote in message
. ..

Well, I am taking the plunge.
I am updating my old IBM T23 laptop from Win2k to WINXP Pro.
It's a great little laptop, though technology long passed it by, and at
the moment it only has 384KB of memory. If the update "takes," I'll update
the RAM to 512KB.

This is the machine I let household guests use.

Gosh, if it works out, I'll be as up to date OS-wise as the great computer
gurus here.


Or he

http://www.eisboch.com/techsupport.jpg

Eisboch :-)

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:07:31 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
...

Well, I am taking the plunge.
I am updating my old IBM T23 laptop from Win2k to WINXP Pro.
It's a great little laptop, though technology long passed it by, and at
the moment it only has 384KB of memory. If the update "takes," I'll update
the RAM to 512KB.

This is the machine I let household guests use.

Gosh, if it works out, I'll be as up to date OS-wise as the great computer
gurus here.


Or he

http://www.eisboch.com/techsupport.jpg

Here's some Vista error messages

http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictures/error3.jpg

http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictures/errorts7.jpg

Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
. ..

Well, I am taking the plunge.
I am updating my old IBM T23 laptop from Win2k to WINXP Pro.
It's a great little laptop, though technology long passed it by, and at
the moment it only has 384KB of memory. If the update "takes," I'll update
the RAM to 512KB.

This is the machine I let household guests use.

Gosh, if it works out, I'll be as up to date OS-wise as the great computer
gurus here.


Or he

http://www.eisboch.com/techsupport.jpg

Eisboch :-)




Isn't that a great photo? :)

That particular T23 now has a new home.

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:39:31 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:07:31 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
m...

Well, I am taking the plunge.
I am updating my old IBM T23 laptop from Win2k to WINXP Pro.
It's a great little laptop, though technology long passed it by, and at
the moment it only has 384KB of memory. If the update "takes," I'll update
the RAM to 512KB.

This is the machine I let household guests use.

Gosh, if it works out, I'll be as up to date OS-wise as the great computer
gurus here.


Or he

http://www.eisboch.com/techsupport.jpg

Here's some Vista error messages

http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictures/error3.jpg

http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictures/errorts7.jpg

I love that second one. It'll get sent around the world soon!
--
John *H*
(Not the other one!)