TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[boomstik360]

More on this subject. Below are my Dell XP discs. The first is the OS disc which is just a plain-jane Dell branded XP install. The other is the bundled programs disc. I don't have the drivers & utilities disc anymore.
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This is what I recommend you look for concerning that Dell system. Ebay is a good place and fairly inexpensive.

EDIT: For example;

New Dell OS Reinstallation CD Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP 3 - 2009 | eBay

New Dell Operating System Reinstallation CD Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 - 2009.

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$14

Dell Microsoft Windows XP Professional With SP3 Reinstallation Disc P/N: U317K | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Dell Microsoft Windows XP Professional With SP3 Reinstallation Disc P/N: U317K at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

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$15

IF you'd prefer SP2, that can be had for $10;

Dell Reinstallation CD Microsoft Windows XP Professional Pro Service Pack 2 SP2 | eBay

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True, but they were otherwise not difficult to work on.

100% yeah. Not difficult at all. I just remember it being a bummer I couldn't just put any ole board in my moms old Pentium D bearing Dell E510 to upgrade it LOL.

 

[Ruru]

Just for curiosity I tested Celeron D and oh boy that it's slow.

XP install stops at this point every time why ? The iso burned with out any errores so why should it stop in the same spot

Try from USB drive. I use this method when I don't have an optical drive

How To Install Windows XP from USB Flash Drive with WinSetupFromUSB

How can you install Windows XP with no CD drive? Here's how ...

www.jamesfmackenzie.com

 

[MaxiPro800]

Took me a while but it works now!

Quick specs:

- ASRock P4Dual-915GL
- Northwood HT 2.8GHz
- Sapphire Radeon HD4870 1GB GDDR5
- 2x512MB DDR400
- Raidmax RX-700AC PSU
- 120GB Hitachi HDD I got out of a recently modded Xbox 360
- TSSTCorp SH-216 SATA DVD drive
- XP Pro SP3.

What's even funnier? I can easily slap a HD7970 on it and it'll boot and work just as fine

ASRock really nailed it with this one. The 915 chipset really goes way too well with 478. If only it had 4 DIMM slots, it would have been absolutely epic.

gwak

 

[Ruru]

Took me a while but it works now!

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Quick specs:

- ASRock P4Dual-915GL
- Northwood HT 2.8GHz
- Sapphire Radeon HD4870 1GB GDDR5
- 2x512MB DDR400
- Raidmax RX-700AC PSU
- 120GB Hitachi HDD I got out of a recently modded Xbox 360
- TSSTCorp SH-216 SATA DVD drive
- XP Pro SP3.

What's even funnier? I can easily slap a HD7970 on it and it'll boot and work just as fine

ASRock really nailed it with this one. The 915 chipset really goes way too well with 478. If only it had 4 DIMM slots, it would have been absolutely epic.

gwak

Interesting... slap the slowest Willamette Celeron to it?

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

Took me a while but it works now!

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Which Windows XP theme is that?

 

[MaxiPro800]

Interesting... slap the slowest Willamette Celeron to it?

Oof. Unfortunately don't have any, the lowest Celeron I have is a 2.4GHz (also Northwood if I remember correctly, came out from some ECS laptop that was scrapped a long time ago) that I have no idea where it is atm.

Which Windows XP theme is that?

Longhorn M4 (build 4011) theme I got off Internet Archive. Requires patched uxtheme as far as I remember.

 

[Ruru]

Oof. Unfortunately don't have any, the lowest Celeron I have is a 2.4GHz (also Northwood if I remember correctly, came out from some ECS laptop that was scrapped a long time ago) that I have no idea where it is atm.

Wouldn't be too bad https://www.ebay.com/itm/2712267101...uid=oV8Q76jLQLa&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[Greenslade]

After putting XP service pack 4 on a CF card it does not boot up again why?

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

Case: Cyberpower Cyber21
Mainboard: Aopen AX34
CPU: Intel Pentium III 1000MHz (Coppermine)
RAM: 512MB (2x256MB) 3-3-3-6
HDD: 20GB
GPU: ATI Rage 128 32MB
LAN: Intel 100Mbit
Optical drive 1: Aopen DVD-1240/AMH
Optical drive 2: Plextor Plexwriter PX-W1210A
OS: Windows XP SP3 (EN)


The videocard is replaced recently

 

[Ruru]

After putting XP service pack 4 on a CF card it does not boot up again why?

That "SP4" screwed up my XP install not that long time ago so I decided to not bother with it anymore.

Case: Cyberpower Cyber21
Mainboard: Aopen AX34
CPU: Intel Pentium III 1000MHz (Coppermine)
RAM: 512MB (2x256MB) 3-3-3-6
HDD: 20GB
GPU: ATI Rage 128 32MB
LAN: Intel 100Mbit
Optical drive 1: Aopen DVD-1240/AMH
Optical drive 2: Plextor Plexwriter PX-W1210A
OS: Windows XP SP3 (EN)


The videocard is replaced recently



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Hella cool rig there! I just hate that Windows reports "999MHz" on a 1GHz CPU

 

[MaxiPro800]

Windows stealin' your megahertz

 

[gunsmoke999]

Case: Cyberpower Cyber21
Mainboard: Aopen AX34
CPU: Intel Pentium III 1000MHz (Coppermine)
RAM: 512MB (2x256MB) 3-3-3-6
HDD: 20GB
GPU: ATI Rage 128 32MB
LAN: Intel 100Mbit
Optical drive 1: Aopen DVD-1240/AMH
Optical drive 2: Plextor Plexwriter PX-W1210A
OS: Windows XP SP3 (EN)


The videocard is replaced recently



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all them CAPS look like new on the mobo have you changed them out at some point ?

 

[Ruru]

Windows stealin' your megahertz

Don't you just hate when it does that

 

[Greenslade]

That "SP4" screwed up my XP install not that long time ago so I decided to not bother with it anymore.

Hella cool rig there! I just hate that Windows reports "999MHz" on

That "SP4" screwed up my XP install not that long time ago so I decided to not bother with it anymore.

Hella cool rig there! I just hate that Windows reports "999MHz" on a 1GHz CPU

That "SP4" screwed up my XP install not that long time ago so I decided to not bother with it anymore.

Hella cool rig there! I just hate that Windows reports "999MHz" on a 1GHz CPU

Thanks for that I thought it might have something to do with that. Glad it was not just me .I will give it a miss. All that time getting it set up and running and that.

 

[Ruru]

Thanks for that I thought it might have something to do with that. Glad it was not just me .I will give it a miss. All that time getting it set up and running and that.

Just have SP3 without any unofficial newer SPs, that's fine with XP.

 

[Greenslade]

Just have SP3 without any unofficial newer SPs, that's fine with XP.

Yes i will thanks.I bet no one has had one of these .let alone
now..

That "SP4" screwed up my XP install not that long time ago so I decided to not bother with it anymore.

Hella cool rig there! I just hate that Windows reports "999MHz" on

Case: Cyberpower Cyber21
Mainboard: Aopen AX34
CPU: Intel Pentium III 1000MHz (Coppermine)
RAM: 512MB (2x256MB) 3-3-3-6
HDD: 20GB
GPU: ATI Rage 128 32MB
LAN: Intel 100Mbit
Optical drive 1: Aopen DVD-1240/AMH
Optical drive 2: Plextor Plexwriter PX-W1210A
OS: Windows XP SP3 (EN)


The videocard is replaced recently



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It looks very clean in there no dust.

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

all them CAPS look like new on the mobo have you changed them out at some point ?

No, as far as i know they are original.

Yes i will thanks.I bet no one has had one of these .let alone
now..

It looks very clean in there no dust.

Well, there is dust on the videocard.
But i cleaned it out after, and replaced it with a GeForce 3 or 4.. dont remember.
I will update soon. I have some more systems to show here

 

[pavle]

After putting XP service pack 4 on a CF card it does not boot up again why?

There are no problems with SP4, however there is a procedure to follow for flawless operation:
If starting from SP0, upgrade to SP1 or SP2, then
1. Install WindowsXP-USP4-v3.1b-NODOTNET-x86-ENU.exe and reboot.
2. Install May 2019 update rollup (WindowsXP-SP4EOS-Rollup-v2.exe) and reboot.
3. Install all required .NET Frameworks via Control Panel/Add-rem-Win-Cmpnnts and reboot (1.1 & 3.5 first, reboot and then 4.0 and reboot).
4. Wait for post-install tasks to complete.

 

[Fouquin]

Vista driver support is what sucked.

So much so that I still get stuck in Vista land with some of my hardware. Ageia PPU200 and 2900 XTX are both Vista-locked due to ~2007 era drivers basically being the only ones to run at full speed. Both work on later systems with Windows default drivers but at about 1/4 of the performance. Edit: oh yeah and GeForce PCX, Vista drivers work alright but Win7 it nosedives. At least that can just be put on XP.

 

[Mr.Scott]

So much so that I still get stuck in Vista land with some of my hardware. Ageia PPU200 and 2900 XTX are both Vista-locked due to ~2007 era drivers basically being the only ones to run at full speed. Both work on later systems with Windows default drivers but at about 1/4 of the performance. Edit: oh yeah and GeForce PCX, Vista drivers work alright but Win7 it nosedives. At least that can just be put on XP.

Surprised about the 2900. You should have no issues running that on XP or W7.

 

[Ruru]

Actually I installed Vista yesterday on a fast-ish LGA775 rig. Damn I miss the looks of that OS, looked better than Win7 if you ask me.

I'll install some more games then I'll post few benchmarks.

 

[Fouquin]

Surprised about the 2900. You should have no issues running that on XP or W7.

A12 silicon doesn't play nice with anything but Catalyst 7.6 on Vista. It took three months of believing the card to be dead before figuring that out.

 

[boomstik360]

Finding these makes me happy LOL

P.S. The old Dell background is just for funzies.

 

[lexluthermiester]

There are no problems with SP4, however there is a procedure to follow for flawless operation:
If starting from SP0, upgrade to SP1 or SP2, then
1. Install WindowsXP-USP4-v3.1b-NODOTNET-x86-ENU.exe and reboot.
2. Install May 2019 update rollup (WindowsXP-SP4EOS-Rollup-v2.exe) and reboot.
3. Install all required .NET Frameworks via Control Panel/Add-rem-Win-Cmpnnts and reboot (1.1 & 3.5 first, reboot and then 4.0 and reboot).
4. Wait for post-install tasks to complete.

Seems very convoluted. No thanks. SP4 was important back when XP was still in common use. That's just not the case anymore. No one needs it. SP3 is optimal.

 

[boomstik360]

Seems very convoluted. No thanks. SP4 was important back when XP was still in common use. That's just not the case anymore. No one needs it. SP3 is optimal.

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