Installing Win XP 32 on AMD 64 x2 pc

[Rastalovich]

I`ve installed windo$e more times than I care to remember.

Gonna be putting a 32 bit xp install on an x2 pc sometime on the weekend for the 1st time.

Anything out of the ordinary to look out for in particular ? or be aware of due to the x2 ?

Side-note: any1 using XP 64bit and rate it as anygood/stable ?

 

[FragTek]

Nope mate, 32bit WinXP is the best their is, the least buggy.

WinXP64 on the other hand, I didn't care for. Driver and software support was lackluster, and I got a lot of random errors last time I used it, and it was a final release.

Viva la 32 bit XP.

 

[Rastalovich]

Selecting Multiprocessor from the hal menu going to be a problem ? I`m hearing rumours on the grapevine that if you don`t it doesn`t (or may not) recognize u having 2 cores automatically ?

 

[FarFarAway]

Jim uses x64 on a daily basis with his C2D and he says it's nice and pretty fast for some stuff

 

[JN]

Jim uses x64 on a daily basis with his C2D and he says it's nice and pretty fast for some stuff

Yep, now that most stuff has x64 drivers i use it exclusively. It is just as stable as x32 and a little more nippy in some tasks.

 

[Raven]

Yep, now that most stuff has x64 drivers i use it exclusively.

can you please tell leadtek that ?

im still waiting for drivers for my tv-card which should have been released well over a year ago :banghead: one of the main reasons i stopped using xp64.

 

[JN]

can you please tell leadtek that ?

im still waiting for drivers for my tv-card which should have been released well over a year ago :banghead: one of the main reasons i stopped using xp64.

Argh that sucks

I remember being one of the first to move over to Windows 2000, i had to buy a load of new hardware to get all that going

 

[Raven]

ye annoying it is.

i can get the tv-card working in xp64 however i cant use winfast and the other programs i tested couldnt produce a decent image quality :/

i believe the problem is my tv-card is kinda old about 3 years soon and thats why leadtek dont make any drivers for it.

took a quick look and the tv-card is still being sold.

atleast logitech has sorted out their drivers for the mx510 i have so one obstacle less.

 

[JN]

atleast logitech has sorted out their drivers for the mx510 i have so one obstacle less.

Yeah the drivers for the Logi mice seem to work really well now. Everything else works great for me. I just wish they'd release a x64 CSS like they did for HL2.

 

[Rastalovich]

Same ole story technology-wize, new thing comes out, nice high price, you can`t use it`s intended abilities until a wide branch of drivers etc fall into place; by this time your new tech is old tech and there`s a new kid on the block costing what your now old one did, which now cost a budget of what it was.

hehe pcs.

What about the hal guys ?

 

[Rastalovich]

Selected multiprocessor, everything working A-OK, cpuz reports as it should.

 

[noveltylamp]

As for XP x64, it think it's fantastic, 3dMark performance actually went up, albeit by less than 100 points. I can't comment on drivers from Nvidia but ATI drivers are just as good in x64 as in x86. Avast Free works on x64, Epson have printer drivers for x64 (although the ones on the USA site work for me, wheras the ones on the EU site don't).

x64 is also supposedly better at managing memory than x86 as it is built on the Windows Server 2003 codebase.

I'd say go for x64 if you can get drivers for your hardware, there's a free 120-day trial available on the Microsoft Website if people don't want to commit to buying it without trying it.

 

[tuco]

My personal favorite OS is Windows 2000, because I find it the most stable. The problem is, on the original install disk (the only one I own) it could only recognize something like 131,000 MB, and after installing it I would have to put on SP4, then hope that the drive manufacturer had a utility to recognize and partition the drive after the OS is installed. I will probably buy Vista, but I have a feeling that it will spy on you, and Vista owners will have less privacy. I am very suspicious of what Windows update does behind the scenes currently.

 

[Raven]

The problem is, on the original install disk (the only one I own) it could only recognize something like 131,000 MB,

why not just slipstream the latest servicepack into the os, then ypu get around that problem.

or you could go the lazy way and download a slipstreamed copy instead, should work just fine with the license you have.

 

[FarFarAway]

I am very suspicious of what Windows update does behind the scenes currently.

tbh I don't care.

I'll personally send MS the list of sites I access if they so wish

Seriously as long as they don't collect data like credit cards/bank information who cares

 

[Rastalovich]

tbh I don't care.

I'll personally send MS the list of sites I access if they so wish

Seriously as long as they don't collect data like credit cards/bank information who cares

I do Kemp, I`d not be supprized if they could pull up a "Kemp" file and tell u what u been siting

Imo, no web based or related companies should log, pass on, or profile *anything*. They want to be cute with profiling - fine - but keep the info my end and not theirs. They can have a reference if they like that means nothing to them without my connecting, but apart from that the `net is going to be plagued by blogs via searches, ads u don`t want and junk u`d rather not have. Firms believing they know what u want coz u fit into a predefined category.

Bah that`s another discussion for another day.