i am looking at a new 1.8 xp system,with a MSI.K400 vl or ultra mainboard.due to lack of $$ i am going to use my voodoo 3 2000 card and diamond monster 300 sound card and old windows. should i load win98 or ME ?I HAVE ACCESS TO BOTH. Can you load xp on a second computer with only one disc ?i heard you can download copies of xp  is this true & do they work ok?  8) any coments on useing via based boards with windows 98 or me?

Yeah, ME is trash. Use 98, preferably 98SE.

XP, with a few hacks (no product activation! yay!), and a bunch of things turned off, is a great OS. Crashes a LOT less than 98. If you have a fast PC, 800MHz w/ 256MB RAM or better, WinXP is faster than Win98. Oh, and Pro is best.

If you want more info on, erm, patching XP, drop me a PM.

keep away from xp if you run a voodoo 5 drivers have bad compatibility , i swapped back to ME after playing around with voodoo 3`s and 5`s on xp  . drivers have better compliance on 98IG88 . but glide and gl is extremely quick on XP ( unreal tournament!!!)

Personally, if you can get your hands on Windows 2000 I'd suggest that. More stable then both XP and Win 9X. I game with it all the time and I've only ran into two older games that don't run on it that run on XP (built on 2k core, which makes no sence), and those two games are Need for speed high stakes and Rogue squadron. Other wise any new games, it runs sweet and that's with using both a V3 and a Voodoo 5.

Well games like max pain , deltaforce land warrior , older games like  blood and even new iron storm demo have big problems  , even using dreamweaver with black background you cant see the cursor . I`m no expert but i think direct 3d is useless with a V5500 on Xp , overlays and i think SLI is out of wack with some direct 3D engines  . Glide game do work well and most gl Games do . These problems disapeared with Me using the latest Amigamerlin drivers . Basically XP drivers need more work , until than i`m sticking to all around funtionality , and full direct x 8.1 compliance .

that said the voodoo 3 runs extremely well game wise on xp , shame it didn`t have more ram . Xp is greedy on
display resourses .

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OK, I agree it isn't the best situation...
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Now THAT is a bad problem
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Yah, agreed, but it's much better than Win2K.
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Odd, that's one of the tings I like best about Windows/
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Hell yeah. But we have to move forward some time. If you have old hardware, XP is most likely not for you.
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That's probably my biggest gripe.
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What version of Windows isn't?
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*shudders* All the Mac had was numbers, but at least they meant something definate. I got an error once trying to browse an FTP site with Internet Explorer, "ERROR: A system call that should never fail has failed."
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A little optimization can get that down to about 750MB
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Yeah... they hide all the good tools. But don't worry, they are there, they're just buried. Deeply.
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Screw the memory thing. THAT is my biggest gripe.
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Hi Folks,

I am one who is sure happy to hear the most of you don't like Windows XP.  The last guy said they pushed ME out of the door to soon, it still had some bugs????Have you counted the number of Critical downloads there were is SP1 for XP and we are almost reaching the top on SP2.  What Microsoft should do is, for the same money, sell each person Windows XP either Home or Pro and a free hard drive to accomodate all of the Critical downloads, suggested downloads, etc. etc. I had 98SE on this computer when I bought it.  I think it was a great system.  It doesn't have as many bells and whistles as XP, but I just finished getting my computer up and operating after the fifth (5) crash since I have been using XP. That's about a year, maybe less.  The problem with XP is that it is designed for more than I person to use the same computer or network.  I am the only person using my computer and I'm not on a network.  So, this this so and so tells me I can't delete, move, rename a file because someone else is using it????I start thinking there's a little microsoft person inside of my computer, who is trying his best to drive me crazier than I already am.  It seems to me, the four eyed Billionare should have made some kind of changes to allow ONE person to use XP and not be strapped down with all of the crazy restrictions.  "It" told me the other day to put my Windows XP CD in the "A" and and fine file,,,,,,,,,,,,now either the computer is getting nutty or I am...... I had a hard time getting that CD in there.  Then it didn't work!!!!!I hope no one believes I tried that.
Thanks for the eyes and ears,

duhbluesman 8)

dahbluesman: Another thing you forgot -- XP did get finished and was not broken-ware, Millennium was.

WinME is a broken OS, XP isn't. And plus I am glad XP is getting service packs (like it's predecessors), would you want to run an OS that needs some updating from time to time and was buggy as heck because there weren't any updates?

A new hard drive for all customers for their critical downloads -- ok dude -- put down your crack pipe for a second -- if you are running XP on your 1Gb drive from 1996 you're going to have a problem. A few months ago I bought an 80Gb drive w/ 8MB cache (Western Digital) and it was only $100 - cheap!

If you haven't got the money for the gas, why buy the car, eh? this stuff isn't that expensive, plus (keep crack pipe down for one more minute) if you are worried about space, that is why we have these wonderful things called, say it with me now, "Ceee Deee Burhhhhnnn Urrs".

Just plop your critical updates to a CD and delete them from the hard drive. Not like they take much space at all anyway.

As far as crashes go, haven't had a one in XP yet on both of my machines, nor either of my parents 2 machines, nor my brothers systems.... stop hitting your head into the screen and well avoid the crashes altogether. Win9X crashed a he** of a lot more than any NT operating system.

A Microsoft person in your system, insert the CD into the "A"  -- ehh -- maybe smoking pot before posting on a forum may not be the best idea, Because none of this makes sense or is based in reality, honestly.

Four-eyed billionaire -- well he must be doing something right because his cash flow is still coming in, and god bless'em for it!

Boiu_Andrei: I don't take it them you are running Linux? Plus advertising in XP -- where I don't see any ads -- care to point his out -- exactly where they are located?

Oh and Win9x -- yeah runs great, except is you decide you want to have any *new* hardware run decently.

Impossible to run the same system with the same version of windows, I take you mean system uptime? Well I have been running XP from the first day it was available on the market, and I haven't had to re-load it on either system yet.

But hey, whatever -- none of what either of you two makes sense, just senseless Microsoft bashing.

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