Would XP Work With This System

[Ken7]

I am thinking about trying to get more life out of an old Dell XPS Computer built in 2000...For basic family use...And to boost its performance!

It has Windows ME, 128 MB RDRAM , AND AN 80 GIG HD (only 15 gigs used)

I was thinking of doing the following and wanted to know if this would be a sound idea to get a few more years out of the machine or at least have it as the families second computer:

Install 512 RDRAM - From newegg its about $82 for each 256 module( I need two) total $164

Partition the 80 Hard drive into two...Take the new 40 GB HD partition and install windows XP on that section so I can run both operating systems.

It is my understanding that I might have some issues with the current configuration running XP, so I was thinking of trying this to see what if any problems I might encounter using XP on this system.

Any help of feedback would be appriecated.

Here are the Spec's of the Computer:


CARD (CIRCUIT), PLANAR (MOTHERBOARD), NO SOUND, DIMENSION, BXXX, SOCKET

PROCESSOR, 80526, 1GHZ, 256, 133, FIBER CHANNEL

RAMBUS INLINE MEMORY MODULE, 128, 356M, 64X16, 8C

CARD (CIRCUIT), MEMORY BOARD, MEMORY, PRINTED WIRING BOARD, CONTINUITY, RAMBUS

CARD (CIRCUIT), CONTROLLER, ATA-100, PROCESSOR MODULE, BLD27, DIMENSION

CARD (CIRCUIT), MULTI-MEDIA, AUDIO, SANTA CRUZ

CARD (CIRCUIT), GRAPHICS, NVIDIA, 64MB, NV15, ULTRASTOR CORP

HARD DRIVE, 80G, I, 5.4K, 3.5" FORM FACTOR, 1N, NO CONTROLLER/NO CABLES, MAXTOR LEO

DIGITAL VIDEO DISK DRIVE, 680M, 12X, I, 5.25" FORM FACTOR, NEC CORPORATION, REVISION

 

[Verve]

I don't think XP will work with just 128 RAM. But I'm not sure.

 

[SFR]

I have an Dell XPS R350, Pentium II with 128MB of RAM..... its a piece of .... that can barely run Windows 98 Second Edition, but it makes for a good printer server...


This is what Microsoft says: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/upgrading/sysreqs.mspx...

 

[Ken7]

What I want to do first is increase the RAMBUS RAM to 512 mb, if thats possible, on my machine.

 

[SFR]

You should be able to find some suppliers that carry it.

 

[Camper]

Rambus is vary expensive. Widows XP will run on 64mb of ram and 128 is preferred.

 

[Super_Nova]

Will it run? Yes! Will it run at a decent speed? No!
I once, just for the heck of it, installed windows XP on a pentium 133 with 128 megs of RAM. It installed and ran supprisingly well. I wouldn't recommend it though.
Just up the RAM and you'll be fine. But by all means get rid of that Windows ME. Windows XP running slowly on 128MB of RAM is still better than Windows ME running on anything!

 

[Blue]

Yea it'll run with 128 but I recommend you upgrade as you plan on doing for a quicker machine. Also why not just replace ME entirely? you don't need 2 different windows versions and ME was not the best OS available. Also XP is far superior then ME.