Weakest XP pcs

[Goliath182]

What are some of the worst pcs youve put XP on?

Mines a 300 meg with 64 megs of ram.

[raidersforever01]

Celeron 400mhz, 7gig hard drive and 64megs of ram. Not anywhere near yours but this is my worst.

[slugbug]

I had it installed on an old slot one P3-450 and it ran pretty good.

[the_dope_chaud]

my mom's old clunker laptop, a thinkpad p3 450 with 6 gig hdd and 128 megs ram

[tyle6]

I still run a slot1 P3@ 450mhz with 256mb ram:grin: and Xp professional. makes a great "poker stars" rig.

[Goliath182]

yea some sweet crappy rigs lol. it runs xp like super slow though lol go figures its cpu is least recommended and half the recommended ram. almost forgot it has a 4 gig harddrive.

[Sadasius]

P4 1.8Ghz....Using it as a server. Runs but not the quickest thing in the world that's for sure. Never installed XP on anything less.

[Raptorfury]

250 mhz intel 64 megs of memory .

[Goliath182]

lol nice Raptorfury. How bad did that sob lag? Cant even imagine how bad that is i need to run it on my old 95 lol. 33 meg 80386DX. with like i think 16 megs of ram im not sure. love to see if it will run without blowing up.

[Raptorfury]

well i know you heard the clich'e it be morning till the comp boots up ... well it pretty much fell into that catagory .... it get to it one of these days ........ you be lucky if the 386 would even boot it with just the xp disc ....

[Nocutius]

The worst pc that i put XP on was PIII 550mhz 192mb ram 10gb disk. It worked ok but then something died and it wasn't worth fixing it anymore, that was around 6 months ago. I also had one PIII 700mhz 256mb with xp until last month.

[PP Mguire]

You cant put XP on anything less than a 233mhz i believe. And, ive put one on a 233 with 128mb of ram. Ran pretty smooth actualy for everyday use.

[tyle6]

LOL, I actually have a bag full of old pc100-133 a good 15 sticks atleast, most are 128 and over too. If any of you guys out there are looking for some more ram for one of these beasts let me know. pay the shipping it yours.

[PP Mguire]

How much would it be? If you have some 256's or 512's id really appreciate it

[tyle6]

I cant see it being more then 10 bucks? Im not sure whats all in there but i will take a look.

[PP Mguire]

Sweet thanx. I can use some 256's or better.

[Miker]

I have a old 900MHz PC with two PC133 slots with one 64MB pc100 lol!

Think how much that PC will scream with 1G of PC133!

[srpeters18]

Will the board even support 1GB?

[Miker]

It supports 2 512MB sticks, just not the RARE 1GB ones.

[tyle6]

well ive got a 256mb or 2 and a few 128's you can have!

[Goliath182]

I actualy have a board that supports 1.5 gigs of PC 133. got that thing loaded with 1.5 gigs too =) its a beast with ram but graphics... not so much. Its got AGP but ive never checked what speed it is i just use the card that i got with it.

[tyle6]

Ive had a few PCs ive given away now that I strapped 768mb of SD into. That always seemed to be the magic number with SD. 2x512 was damn expensive and 768 ran just as good:wink:

[Xero (1)ne]

The slowest machine I've had it on is my Toshiba laptop.

233Mhz P3
2Mb video ram
256mb of 133mhz ram
6gb hdd


My friend beats me and has installed XP on a packard bell. Pentium cpu with 64mb edo ram. :ahhhhh:

[peti1212]

Haha, I installed it back in the day when it just came out on a PI 166Mhz 128MB Ram and it was horrible. It was so slow, I don't eve know what to say.

[PP Mguire]

Soo who alls lieing? Unless you found a way to bypass the minimum requirements check.

[peti1212]

I am not lying, I tired it out when the beta test was out or whichever the first version was. Did that have a minimum requirement check? I don't know but I was able to install it.

[PP Mguire]

Hmm idk about that one. But i do know the real one ive tried installing on lower spec machines and it gave me a block saying that this computer dosent meet the minimum specs required.

[Xero (1)ne]

I know that XP can run stock on 64mb of ram. Idk the speed of CPU it needs or how much disk space it requires. I know that my friend who installed it on the packard bell took like 2 days to do it because it was so slow.

[PP Mguire]

233 is the lowest you can go.

[Goliath182]

Ive heard of pcs running it on lower than 233 they just dont work very well at all. Theres even a guy who said he got all the Vista betas to work on a 200mhz cyrix cpu.

[PP Mguire]

Like i said before, without using some sort of crack to get it to work around the minimum spec requirement.

[Goliath182]

Im sure its possible just takes time. Time that could be spent doing something much better than making XP run on a old crap computer.

[dumdum]

My weakest was Pentium 4 1.7ghz, 256mb ram, 30gb hard drive, cd-ROM, Geforce mx 440 32mb. The best I could do on it was GTA San Andreas. GTA is like the best game that is optimized well on any kind of graphic cards.

[asterasy]

pff, my old machine was a celeron 2.4ghz with an MX 440 and some motherboard that I can't even remember the name of. It ran WoW with ~10fps xD

[dumdum]

haha running wow with 10fps!! that would be a pain!

[Andrew1990]

Pentium 1 166MHz with 32mb ram and intergrated 1mb video. I can tell you one thing, that was the slowest computer I have ever used wit hXP.

Right now I put XP on my dads laptop which has an AMD K6-2 475MHz and 128mb Ram.

[Goliath182]

Holy cow dude seriously? a Pentium 1?!? Wow i cant imagine that that must have sucked lol worse than running wow in 10 fps..

[Andrew1990]

well it really didnt run. It got to the windows main screen then after a while it would lock up. I just put XP on there to test it before I threw that old computer out.

[bromro]

http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm
some of these are crazy, the last one ran XP at 7mhz and 20MB ram

[Methious]

I put it on a p2 233 with 64 meg ram, installed it with 192 meg, pulled the 128 meg chip because the guy didn't want to buy it. Ran like a dog but he left with it and didn't have any complaints.

To get it on less than a 233 you can install it on another machine, uninstall all the drivers, swap the hard drive into the sub 233, then run XP repair before you boot. Took like 4 hours on the p2 233 to install so I can't imagine on doing it on a slower machine.

[PP Mguire]

Some people just have way to much free time on their hands.

[dc740]

I installed it on an old AMD K6-2 450Mhz with 64MB RAM... it worked... horrible...

I had to go back to win98, and I'm still using that machine... I think that some day I'll buy 256MB RAM but it's hard to get, it's a dimm slot :P hahahaha

of course this is not my main rig, but I keep it because it was my first computer... and still runs, it's a compaq presario desktop

[Exilon]

I had an old ThinkPad from the mid 90's I put XP on. It was a P3 333mhz, 64mb of RAM, and 4gb of hard drive space. I think I still have it lying around some where... wonder if it will boot up.

[Sadasius]

oH yeah, oh yeah...well I installed XP on a Texas Instruments calculator...:lol: JK!

[alfhenrik]

Well alright I'll join the party...my first real PC (not the 486 with orange screen) was a P2 200 with 64meg RAM and a 20gig hdd...worked fine (I guess), a bit different than nowadays.

[cvasquez]

Can't remember mine...really is what that old. :)

[tywashere]

Amd 754 3400+ with 512 megs of ram <_< My first pc :P

[cvasquez]

Some people just have way to much free time on their hands.

Sometimes is not even this.
We all need time for ourselves and this is a way to kill time when we need to rewind. :lol:

[raidersforever01]

I have a new personal best and it ran like crap i beleive it was 233mhz celeron with 64megs of ram and i beleive the harddrive was under a gig. Someone wanted me to reinstall XP from them. I was thinking wth was XP doing on it in the first place.

[Goliath182]

oH yeah, oh yeah...well I installed XP on a Texas Instruments calculator...:lol: JK!

Lol with some of the pcs that ive seen it on i bet it would handle xp just have a horrible screen.

[CoolZone]

my first pc was a 486DX2,33MHZ,512Kbytes Trident video card,2 MB RAM.
Would not try to install Xp on one of these

[Miker]

486... *Looks up in envy*

Faster then a 286. Windows 1.1 runs ok? So why won't XP load? I put the disk in my 5'25 floppy drive... Won't even read it.

[Sadasius]

486... *Looks up in envy*

Faster then a 286. Windows 1.1 runs ok? So why won't XP load? I put the disk in my 5'25 floppy drive... Won't even read it.

Gaahhh I had the same problem. I thought I was the only one! :jawdrop: I called Microsoft to complain and they hung up on me. So I bought another one and tried again and it still did not work. Had to use a fork to get it out in pieces. So I bought a third one and at the suggestion of another just trimmed the disk down to fit in the 3.5 inch floppy drive. You know what?...it didn't work either. So I will stick with windows 3.1. It runs faster and has less bugs anyway....LMAO

[DirtyTek]

Lol i Tryed on a 8088 266 128mb mem Think it ran for about a week, Ahh the good old days