Windows XP Challenge.

[VoyexTech]

Hi guys I came up with this idea that I will be participating in. The idea is where you have to get an old pc from no later than 2002 and use that as your main PC for a week. The computer must be Windows XP or older and the only thing your can bring over from your other pc is the gpu, case fans, power supply, and any ram you can find for this system. Good Luck. Please leave a reply if you are going to try it.

Edited March 18, 2016 by VoyexTech
Removed Vista from Title

[VoyexTech]

Just now, AlexTheRose said:

I would rather run Windows 2000.

Do it then if you want to try 

[Murasaki]

2000? Don't make me laugh, when it comes to retro, Win98.

[DRGSaber]

Dose the computers that I work on everyday count? 

I know somewhere we still have a Windows 95 system running day to day 

[Stuff_]

Went to UPS the other day to print a label (my printer is out of ink) and the machine they had for the consumer to print was running XP, and unbearably slow. Took about 10 seconds to open a PDF.

[exercutor5]

My 2007 MacBook runs Windows XP, does that count?

[VoyexTech]

8 hours ago, exercutor5 said:

My 2007 MacBook runs Windows XP, does that count?

Try and find an older xp machine if you can but it doesn't really matter. 

 

(It really helps you understand how much pcs has evolved since then and you will really appreciate your main computer after doing this)

[VoyexTech]

8 hours ago, DRGSaber said:

Dose the computers that I work on everyday count? 

I know somewhere we still have a Windows 95 system running day to day 

If it is running xp currently or 95. Dont just put xp on a windows 7, 8, or 10 machine but if it running xp/95 now it is fine

[Squirrel724]

My friend still uses a windows xp netbook as his main laptop and still runs xp on his desktop (more modern hardware there though). Having to use an atom netbook when ultrabooks are a thing is awful.

[dalekphalm]

I just hope ya'll aren't doing anything critically important on any of these machines, including: Online banking, personal finances, taxes, or just about anything that uses private confidential personal information.

 

XP is a nightmare for security, and is a hackers wet dream.

[VoyexTech]

Just now, dalekphalm said:

I just hope ya'll aren't doing anything critically important on any of these machines, including: Online banking, personal finances, taxes, or just about anything that uses private confidential personal information.

 

XP is a nightmare for security, and is a hackers wet dream.

Yes. You are not intended to its is mote targeted at gamers to see how far their hardware has evolved. 

[VoyexTech]

2 minutes ago, Squirrel724 said:

My friend still uses a windows xp netbook as his main laptop and still runs xp on his desktop (more modern hardware there though). Having to use an atom netbook when ultrabooks are a thing is awful.

I cri for your friend

[dalekphalm]

Just now, VoyexTech said:

Yes. You are not intended to its is mote targeted at gamers to see how far their hardware has evolved. 

Well you did say "use that as your main PC for a week." I don't know about you, but I do more things on my computer in a week than just gaming

[Squirrel724]

1 minute ago, VoyexTech said:

I cri for your friend

He no longer uses the netbook as a main computer as he bought an asus laptop for college, but he does use it as a linux pc for some reason.

[VoyexTech]

1 minute ago, dalekphalm said:

Well you did say "use that as your main PC for a week." I don't know about you, but I do more things on my computer in a week than just gaming

You may use a different pc for thing that requires large ammounts of security

[dalekphalm]

Just now, VoyexTech said:

You may use a different pc for thing that requires large ammounts of security

Yeah... I won't be participating in this challenge. I lived through the XP days, start to finish... good riddance...

[VoyexTech]

1 minute ago, Squirrel724 said:

He no longer uses the netbook as a main computer as he bought an asus laptop for college, but he does use it as a linux pc for some reason.

Linux for gaming? Linus us good for programers and is open source so it is very good for advanced computer stuff. Not so much for gaming

[VoyexTech]

1 minute ago, dalekphalm said:

Yeah... I won't be participating in this challenge. I lived through the XP days, start to finish... good riddance...

Ok thanks for mentioning your concerns with the challenge. I am doing this because I found my old gaming pc from when I was 5-6 so I though it would be fun to live through thode days

[Gikero]

I am currently working on a 2002-03 era Dell for a client. He has some proprietary radio DJ software that he can't reinstall. No SATA ports. I stressed how bad of an idea I thought it would be to put money into the system, but it was his call. I made an image of his PC as is onto his external hard drive, really worried about that drive dieing. Ran diagnostics, everything checked out.

New power supply, simply because it was on the original OEM one, and he wanted a video card that could connect to his HDMI only HDTV, and his sound system. Celeron D with 2GB of DDR 400Mhz RAM, PCI Soundblaster card, Windows XP, IDE 160GB HDD and soon, a GeForce 6200 with a DVI to HDMI cable.

[VoyexTech]

7 minutes ago, Gikero said:

I am currently working on a 2002-03 era Dell for a client. He has some proprietary radio DJ software that he can't reinstall. No SATA ports. I stressed how bad of an idea I thought it would be to put money into the system, but it was his call. I made an image of his PC as is onto his external hard drive, really worried about that drive dieing. Ran diagnostics, everything checked out.

New power supply, simply because it was on the original OEM one, and he wanted a video card that could connect to his HDMI only HDTV, and his sound system. Celeron D with 2GB of DDR 400Mhz RAM, PCI Soundblaster card, Windows XP, IDE 160GB HDD and soon, a GeForce 6200 with a DVI to HDMI cable.

He probably doesn't use it for much that system couldn't game or do much but it is an ok old system

[Gikero]

I have reservations on putting money into a system that could be dead in 6 months just due to age. Went ahead after visually inspecting it. Motherboard capacitors looked perfect, put new thermal paste on the CPU, put in a good PSU, ran SpinRite (lvl 4) and CrystalDiskInfo on the HDD, memtest86+ on the RAM and did a image backup just in case. He said it wouldn't be connected to a network, so that is a plus.

[AshleyAshes]

36 minutes ago, VoyexTech said:

Yes. You are not intended to its is mote targeted at gamers to see how far their hardware has evolved. 

How is this a test of how far hardware has evolved when you primary condition is SOFTWARE?  A real test of how well hardware has evolved or more importantly, how well older hardware has lasted, would be to get MODERN software running on OLDER hardware and showing that with some love and a spit shine, it can still have purpose and use.

[RahulR]

I would love to participate in this, but in the area that I live, computer stuff is just crap. Either you get someone who know nothing about computers who is trying to sell their 2004 Dell Inspiron for $50 USD (~$68 CAD) or you find someone who's trying to sell you this "ULTIMATE SUPER GAMING PC 100% ✔" for $1500, and it has a Core i5, 8GBs RAM, and an HD 5450. Even if I did participate, it would be even harder for me, since my ISP doesn't even support Windows XP anymore  Anyway, I want to see others' results!

[TetraSky]

6 minutes ago, RahulR said:

Either you get someone who know nothing about computers who is trying to sell their 2004 Dell Inspiron for $50 CAD (~$68 USD)

I don't think the CAD suddenly gained more value than the USD, so that's the other way around.

 

The oldest computer I had dated from 2004 (Athlon XP 2800+), I recently(last week) sold it for $20 CAD (not for the hardware, but for the time I had to take to reinstall Windows XP and do all the updates... ain't doing this sh*t for free and it wasn't worth it for $20), so... I cannot participate in this.

[dalekphalm]

8 minutes ago, RahulR said:

I would love to participate in this, but in the area that I live, computer stuff is just crap. Either you get someone who know nothing about computers who is trying to sell their 2004 Dell Inspiron for $50 CAD (~$68 USD) or you find someone who's trying to sell you this "ULTIMATE SUPER GAMING PC 100% ✔" for $1500, and it has a Core i5, 8GBs RAM, and an HD 5450. Even if I did participate, it would be even harder for me, since my ISP doesn't even support Windows XP anymore  Anyway, I want to see others' results!

While I do not recommend participating for other reasons, your "ISP" doesn't know, or care, what OS you use. Why would they? How would they even tell?