nightwish

i dont know if this is the right place to post but here we go
i am currently running windows xp sp2 on a 1gig p3 processer 126 mem (yes its old 11yrs roughly) and because of this i cant get it to keep up with the stuff i want so i tried downgradeing the os to windows 2000 and it kept on coming up with a error message when i was tryin 2 install the os so i had 2 bring it back up 2 xp sp2 and trust me running xp on 1 gig aint fun

ne 1 know why this has happend or can offer an insight please do

nickster_uk

What was the error message?? Anything relating to not being able to upgrade to an older OS?

Have you tried backing up your personal files to disc(s) then formatting and installing W2k?

nightwish

basically what it was is it came up with a message saying unable to continue with install and then it conks out :@

nickster_uk

May be worth trying to back up then format and install 2000

nightwish

i put all my files that i need on 2 mass storage mp3 player and web sites etc then formatted and tried 2 install 2000 and it came up with that

Bartender

Hard to say without looking over your shoulder as the problem occurred...
XP is heavier than W2K, but not by enuf that you're going to see much improvement if you were able to go back.

Your biggest single stumbling block isn't the CPU, it's RAM. I had the misfortune of trying to help a friend with 64MB of RAM & XP. It took ten minutes to display Control Panel. The thing was just unusable.
I've got a PIII 450 MHz CPU running Ubuntu & W2K, and it's fairly snappy. I mean, the CPU goes to 100% utilization for almost everything, but it gets where it's going without undue hesitation. There's 700+ MB RAM under the hood.
Can you do something about RAM? There are at least 2 things to consider - how many slots on the mobo, and how much mem does it support? It may only have 2 slots and might not support more than 512 or some other fairly low number. If so there's not much sense in buying old (and expensive!) RAM - better to save and start over...

nightwish

thanks for your insight bartender

i aggree the thing need 2 die a nice death with a sledge hammer embeded deep in it :P but atm it wil have 2 suffice

i need 2 downgrade it but i dont know what 2 because i know most of the new programmes wont run on ne thing less than windows 2000 because thats technolgy but thats life innit

hopefully soon i will be upgradeing 2 a 1.9 gig pc not much improvement but hopefully i can rip the 126 ram out of this and put it 2 the new 1 and if i cant there we go

if i can get a job im hopeing either 2 buy a decnt pc off my uncle or just buy a new 1 from somewhere like dell or alienware cuz alien ware rules man