Compaq Armada 7400 Help Urgent!!!!

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tmfreak

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HELLO!

I am running a compaq armada 7400 with pII and i think 60 something mb ram. I dont know if its unable to run xp or something but it is extremely laggy. I have searched for viruses and defragmented the disks but it still takes about half a minute to a minute just to load the contral panel and such.. PELASE HELP! should i reformat to windows 2000? I dont think this laptop was meant for xp.. I bought this off someone else for 50 dollars..

Thanks for you help!
 
The laptop there probably has a 64mb or two 32mb simms and would be too sssslllloooooowww for XP. 2000, 98SE, ME, NT 4.0 are far better candidates unless you decide on Linux. In general Linux only needs 4mb of ram for the older distributions, maybe more for the updated releases.
 
is linux more business or game oriented? im looking for an os that will pretty much just let me surf the internet and chat
 
Since Linux is an "open source" operating system(free of charge) based on the old UNIX it has many distributions available. When someone makes a change or improvement that is released under a new version number like Fedora Core 2, then Core 3 and then Core 4 and Core 5 and then.... Fedora is the Red Hat distro that is geared more for server application.

There's a few threads here where discussion is on the easiest for a "newbie" like myself. You too apparently? :P Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, Mandrake, PCLinux, ubuntu are some names of the common distros. Newer releases now offer more support for running Windows orientated games and programs while Linux already has a good number readily available. But it's a little different from the "point and click" MS Windows you are probably used to. :eek: !
 
That you will when seeing the Bash commands and others things needed just to load a distro like the Grub or Lilo boot loader. This is something a newcomer runs as a second OS at first until you get familiar with it. You also need more then one partition for each distro while two can share a swap of about 2gb in size. The swap follows a root, boot, and an extended on most.
 
If you are unsure if you want to go the LINX rout I would probably got with Win 2000. It has better security features then the other OS's. If you decide to try to upgrade your memory to support XP you will need a min of 128 as per Microsoft, but I've found that it will still run slow and you won't be happy.
 
That's an understatement there alright! When running an AST 486 model with a WD 1.4gb drive in there with two 32mb memory sticks(forgot was that pc66 or pc100 on that one) a friend handed a 98SE disk to try out there. 98 at that time ran ssslllooowww when custom installed to the drive. That was rermoved fast and later to see a used custom build take the place of the AST(boat anchor is best description). The Soyo board then ran two 256mb PC100 simms there for 98SE. The new build after saw a Shuttle board run three 256mb PC133s for the 768mb max there. 98 is still running on that old board.
 
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