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installing now OS on old compaq

Started by yeswings , Jun 09 2008 08:33 PM

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yeswings

Posted 09 June 2008 - 08:33 PM

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I have an old compaq 5283 I wiped the drive and now want to install a new OS XP if I can. Please let me know where i can get the information I need to do this.
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yeswings

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Artellos

Posted 10 June 2008 - 03:09 AM

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Windows XP requires at least 256MB RAM.
I looked on google and it says that that compaq only has 128MB standard.

How much RAM do you have?
I don't think XP can run on that machine to be quite honest, and if it will it will be really bumpy.

Regards,
Olrik