[bcab] Re: go back to Windows XP?

Hi there
If I may put my thought to this, I have heard that there is an upper limit of four gig. I don't know if that is true though. 

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Kulvinder Singh Bhogal
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----- Original Message ----- From: <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 3:09 PM
Subject: [bcab] Re: go back to Windows XP?
hi Graham, watch out carefully for issues surrounding SATA hard drives as well. Many of the new SATA drives on machines with Vista installed are not supported by XP and in those cases you'll need specific drivers for them copied to a floppy disk, for XP's boot CD to be able to find them and 
install.
If you're totally blind this is inaccessible, if you're not then it's a matter of pressing F6 during the process at the stage where you are asked "press F6 if you need to install a third party RAID or 
SCSI driver".
Apart from this I was not aware that XP had any RAM limits and know someone running an XP machine 
with 4 gig RAM.
It's worth checking the whole hardware list in the existing installation, to check that you can get 
XP compatible drivers for all components before even attempting the job.
I think you'll find when successful that XP home will run much faster than the Vista installation on the same hardware. It has lower memory requirements, less processses running and a much leaner 
core.

Leon Gilbert
Editor, www.vipnews.org.uk
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:02 PM
Subject: [bcab] go back to Windows XP?


Hi all.

I have a Dell Inspiron 530 desktop PC.
I am using it with Vista and, while it works OK, there really does seem to be no doubt to me that Vista is not quite as quick as XP in some situations, particularly when copying files. I am also 
having some difficulty getting networking to work correctly.
I do have a spare copy of Windows XP Home and was wondering about downgrading to this, after making sure that all motherboard and other component drivers can be downloaded of course.
This PC has 3 GB of RAM. I have heard that XP will not recognise this much RAM. is this case, and 
is this situation changed any with the introduction of XP Service Pack 3?

Regards

Graham
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