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PostSat Mar 20, 2004 10:51 pm    Windows XP!

Its finally happened, on my computer, I upgraded from Windows 2000 to Windows XP. A big step, but I think its for the best then. My hard drive is clean, but im happy!

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PostSun Mar 21, 2004 12:10 pm    

Cool.

I have XP on this machine and it seems to not crash so much as 98 does on the old one. Could be the computer as well though. It is better in some ways, but if you're good with computers is quite simple to use and doesn't test you. Depends on what you like though.


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PostMon Mar 22, 2004 12:44 am    

I upgraded a month or so ago..My ME was always frezing and crashing so I bought XP and it has not frozen or crash since...but b/c my computer is so screwed up to start with its some what slow so I need a new computer or something Might just better get to fixin the problems on it...me is a computer wiz lol


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PostThu Mar 25, 2004 4:03 am    

My computer loads within 30 seconds now. XP is so incredibly fast on booting up. I love it.

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PostThu Mar 25, 2004 4:21 am    i had XP

from the starting on this Thinkpad but it is screwing up on me

whenever i play NFS underground it shows after sometime Physical memory dump on a blue screen and then suddenly restarts my computer without switchin it off properly.

also i keep getting wierd problem day after day i think they sold me a defective piece of *beep*.

i really feel like putting this up theirs



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PostThu Mar 25, 2004 2:29 pm    

I got that physical memory dump blue screen alot. The problem was overheating for me. Next time you get that error, feel to see if the little thing is hot anywhere (inside if you can). You may just need a fan or two!

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PostThu Mar 25, 2004 4:53 pm    

XP (Professional at least) is totally rubbish for games. When I put a game onto it, it will load up and you can play it for 5 minutes and then the computer would crash. I gave up trying to play games on this machine and use the old 98 one.

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PostThu Mar 25, 2004 11:27 pm    

.....sitting pretty with OSX Panther......

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PostSat Mar 27, 2004 10:29 pm    

I think the site is blueviper.com, or maybe its blackviper I cant remember. they have a lot of stuff you can turn off for XP so it runs faster, even though XP still sucks.

you also have to have atleast 512MB of ram to run XP, some one that is related to me *so i've been told* had a computer with XP and he only had 256MB of ram, so he punched it off his desk, and punched it some more when it was lying on the floor.


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PostSun Mar 28, 2004 12:58 am    

ya'll think that 2000 to xp is an improvement? try 3.1 to xp now THATS a upgrade! 13 on one computer try that it stinketh


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PostSun Mar 28, 2004 1:01 am    

Defiant, first foolish--i mean, uh, the first John Kerry sign I've ever seen. However, XP is cool, isn't it?


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PostSun Mar 28, 2004 1:23 am    

oh yeah i forgot to say... My new computer is better then anyone eles' cuz it has an athlon processer not a petium of celeron which both ar'ent near as good so niener niener :P

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PostSun Mar 28, 2004 3:54 pm    

My XP actually takes 5minutes to start and 10 minutes to shut down.

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PostSun Mar 28, 2004 6:31 pm    

Republican_Man wrote:
Defiant, first foolish--i mean, uh, the first John Kerry sign I've ever seen. However, XP is cool, isn't it?


Easy there. You have your political views, I have mine. You can argue all you want, but im not going to change, and vice versa. Dont make me bust out the picture again.

Monkey wrote:
oh yeah i forgot to say... My new computer is better then anyone eles' cuz it has an athlon processer not a petium of celeron which both ar'ent near as good so niener niener


Seriously, tons of people run the Athlons. I myself have a 2400+ Athlon XP chip, so dont say no one uses them, especially since you have no idea.

Ksim3000 wrote:
My XP actually takes 5minutes to start and 10 minutes to shut down.


Scan for viruses man. That *beep* aint right. Well, unless you run a slow processor, what is the speed on that?


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PostMon Mar 29, 2004 12:24 pm    

XP crashes less often, but when it does it's baaaaaaaaaad. I've found XP to be more stable over the long term if you stick with the FAT32 file system instead of NTFS.


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PostMon Mar 29, 2004 4:43 pm    

meh...

XP crashes all the time with me. Its great, a program stops working, then you start it again, and its perfectly fine!


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PostWed Mar 31, 2004 4:59 am    

my computer takes 10 seconds to start and 30 seconds to start up windows xp and this is with a 2.08 ghz processer and it still goes faster then 4.0 ghz petiums or celleron athlon cost like 500$ more though


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PostThu Apr 01, 2004 12:11 pm    

Celeron sucks! Celeron sucks! Celeron is like buying a ball mouse, and everything else is optical!

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PostThu Apr 01, 2004 7:12 pm    

ball mouses were cool for like 20 minutets and then those laser ones came


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PostFri Apr 02, 2004 12:29 pm    

So, you see my point then?

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PostFri Apr 02, 2004 9:58 pm    

imzadi76 wrote:
XP crashes less often, but when it does it's baaaaaaaaaad. I've found XP to be more stable over the long term if you stick with the FAT32 file system instead of NTFS.


NTFS is much better than FAT32.

NTFS does not have to search the entire FAT when looking for a letter or number. NTFS also provides user level security that I need for my network. I run two hard disks in RAID and NTFS is faster. NTFS should be faster.

There is something wrong with your configuration or something there.


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PostFri Apr 02, 2004 10:03 pm    

Defiant wrote:
Celeron sucks! Celeron sucks! Celeron is like buying a ball mouse, and everything else is optical!


My high end pentium III system is still quite good for today.

Pentium III's are rated like new Xeon's, 24 hour a day usage. All pentium 4's, celerons, athlons etc are only rated for desktop 8 hour a day usage.

Thats why high end dual tulatin p3's are still being used in server environments today.


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PostFri Apr 02, 2004 10:47 pm    

petntium 3 only go up to 1 ghz and i laugh hahahahaha politely of course

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PostSat Apr 03, 2004 7:08 am    

^Pentium III's go up to 1.4, actually. They also had an experimental 1.53 chip too I believe.

P3's may not be good for playing games like doom 3 or quake 4, but they can do everything else just fine.

Anyway, a p3 1.4 could kick the pants off a celeron or duron 2ghz system. I am not just talking about speed, too


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PostSat Apr 03, 2004 2:03 pm    

PrankishSmart wrote:
Anyway, a p3 1.4 could kick the pants off a celeron or duron 2ghz system.


Keywords being "celeron" and "duron."


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