Sony PCG-F707 ~ WindowsXp

[confus-ed]

The tool to do it is on the xp cd itself too, as well as 'somewhere' on the M$ site I was too lazy to google ... note the tool is capable of connection to the internet with a connection present & updating itself for any changes they might have made(its worth getting the updated stuff)

Certain kit 'combinations' work fine in 98 but not xp .. its to do with ACPI & how sharing of resources is done 'different' between the two ..

If you can just make an image of your 98 install as it 'before & good' & then if it all goes horribly wrong you can restore to wher you pressumably are now

You want if you can to do a clean install, not upgrade despite the fact you have to re-install all your apps, it works out better in the long run as the conversion process isn't foolproof

[Stalemate]

I can't even find the 707 as an F series model on the Sony website.

I did find a PCG-707 model that originally came with Win95, so thatS' not looking too good for an upgrade to WinXP.

Have you thought about Win2000 instead?

If you can run Win98, Win2000 shouldn't be too much of a stretch.

[confus-ed]

..Have you thought about Win2000 instead?

If you can run Win98, Win2000 shouldn't be too much of a stretch.

So other than not knowing what 'Bonzai Buddy' is {its full of spyware ! that's what it is - so if it pops up don't be pressing yes - its malware !}, the question seems answered ... so I'll just waffle for a bit about the quote above ..

Err umm its all to do with acpi & allocation of resources & what can or can't share with what ..

Any 9x system uses the MS specification table as a 'supplementary' method of doing this arbitration, that's a table 9x uses (maintained by windows itself) in addition to the DMI pool maintained by bios routines .. any NT based system has never heard of the MS specification table & either directly accesses hardware like w2k & xp or like NT does, bios ...

So even though the hardware requirements in terms of memory & cpu etc aren't so much different you can't say for sure it'll 'go' without either trying it or running a tool like this ..

[wellington]

The tool to do it is on the xp cd itself too, as well as 'somewhere' on the M$ site I was too lazy to google ... note the tool is capable of connection to the internet with a connection present & updating itself for any changes they might have made(its worth getting the updated stuff)

Certain kit 'combinations' work fine in 98 but not xp .. its to do with ACPI & how sharing of resources is done 'different' between the two ..

If you can just make an image of your 98 install as it 'before & good' & then if it all goes horribly wrong you can restore to wher you pressumably are now

You want if you can to do a clean install, not upgrade despite the fact you have to re-install all your apps, it works out better in the long run as the conversion process isn't foolproof

Hi Confused geezer,

Thank you for your reply to my question.
I agree with you, a clean install may be the way to go.

Regards

Wellington