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RE: Putting XP on windows 98

Berton — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:23:07 GMT

[quote][b]Annubis (4/12/2008)[/b][hr]I'm trying to turn my old 98 comp into a gaming comp. But most of games I have now only run on windows XP! Of course! So is there a way I can put XP on my windows 98?:)[/quote]I've put WinXP on a number of computers that were running Win98/98SE/ME but as mentioned the hardware can be insufficient for a good experience. I ran WinXP Pro on an AMD Athlon 700MHz with 384MB RAM for 2 years but with only Dial-Up at the time didn't have much problem.

It may depend upon the CPU, the older Intel Celeron had less L2/on-die Cache and didn't perform as well as Intel Pentiums of the same speed. The first Celeron's up to 300MHz had no L2 cache, beginning with the 300A there was some cache which gave about a 50% performance boost. Even today the Celeron's today don't have as much L2 as the Pentium 4 but then they are cheaper. Same in comparing AMD's Athlon and Athlon XP with Duron or Sempron.

The amount of RAM on the video card is important and if the video adapter is built onto the motherboard it usually requires the BIOS assigning part of the System RAM to it, makes less available to any Operating System.

RE: Putting XP on windows 98

Ctrl_Alt_Del — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:47:12 GMT

Here's the article from Microsoft explaining the hardware requirements for XP.

It can be found [url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314865]here.[/url]

As a footnote, I turned a '98 computer into an XP machine a few years ago, and was disappointed in it's performance. It had a 366 MHz Intel, 512 MB of RAM and plenty of hard drive space, onboard video and audio, but it was painstakingly slow. I put '98 back in it and it's been fine performance-wise.

Putting XP on windows 98

Annubis — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:50:16 GMT

I'm trying to turn my old 98 comp into a gaming comp. But most of games I have now only run on windows XP! Of course! So is there a way I can put XP on my windows 98?:)