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| Installing Win Xp by jesuseun1(m): 6:04am On Jan 29, 2007 |
can I install window xp on 6.5gb HARDDISK and 64mb ram,i NEED your advice pls.thanks |
| Re: Installing Win Xp by Alexos(m): 10:38am On Jan 29, 2007 |
YES YOU CAN, but thats too small, you need something higher for more funtionality |
| Re: Installing Win Xp by patorini(m): 11:54am On Jan 30, 2007 |
your xp installation would literally be crawling just get more ram. |
| Re: Installing Win Xp by bug24(m): 3:59pm On Jan 30, 2007 |
By the time u finish installing ur XP, u will wish u never had a computer. 64mb ram is the least for xp and its very small for ur system. XP takes about 1Gb of ur hard drive now u are left with abt 4Gb to work. u know what? get a spade, go to ur backyard, dig, dig, digg and put the system in there. maybe it'll upgrade itself in thre after some years. be kool. |
| Re: Installing Win Xp by anusule(m): 6:31pm On Jan 30, 2007 |
han han boy! haba. u wan kill d xp. putn it in a tight room and suffocating it. |
| Re: Installing Win Xp by sbucareer(f): 12:02pm On Jan 31, 2007 |
Just technical information. DOS (XP) 10.2 need at least 16MB to load all the kernels, it needs at least 640KB (Conventional Memory) to load the special applications and system commands. I know with your configuration, your graphics card will be embedded in your system board, hence requiring more memory from your RAM, at least 4MB. Your mouse and keyboard need some memory, let say 1.44MB. Sound card if you have one would need memory. In nutshell, let say you need minimum of 40MB. Remember your partition table (FAT/FAT32/NTFS) would need memory for the partition table on load time. DMA (Direct Access Memory) would need a table to communicate with the CPU. This is how it works. Every peripheral within and outside you computer must have a name. There name is address (00000h to 9FFFFh.) mapped to a lookup table, the lookup table is mapped to another table that hold the reference to an I/O interrupt (Input/Output) that is how the CPU talks to all these devices and it needs memory to create their addresses. That is why you cannot run window from a CD-ROM. If you are left with 24MB of memory, when you open internet explorer and adobe reader at the same time you will run out of RAM and your computer will simply crash because it has ran out of space. I don't know the price in Nigeria but 256MB here in London is £10, at least 60GB HD would get you going. Budget around =N=5K |
| Re: Installing Win Xp by bug24(m): 1:42pm On Feb 08, 2007 |
I will suggest that he doesnt upgrade the system at all. a new one will be better.cos he is soon gonna outrun the upgraded parts soon. other things on the system will be crying for upgrade very soon. |
| Re: Installing Win Xp by sbucareer(f): 8:10pm On Feb 08, 2007 |
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