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  1. December 6th, 2004, 06:40 PM #1
    mastermiaow
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    can XP help with computer instability

    Hi everyone
    I have a friend with HP pavillion 8660 and AMD PROCESSOR K6-2 550mhz.
    The computer is very unstable and keeps crashing, not working well with printer etc. So we have decided to reformat and i was thinking of upgrading to XP. He has 256 mb of Ram. I have heard conflicting stories about XP but on the whole that it is better than ME so I thought might ensure reduced problems in future...
    What do the experts think?
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  2. December 7th, 2004, 11:52 AM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by mastermiaow
    Hi everyone
    I have a friend with HP pavillion 8660 and AMD PROCESSOR K6-2 550mhz.
    The computer is very unstable and keeps crashing, not working well with printer etc. So we have decided to reformat and i was thinking of upgrading to XP. He has 256 mb of Ram. I have heard conflicting stories about XP but on the whole that it is better than ME so I thought might ensure reduced problems in future...
    What do the experts think?
    It's much more stable than ME. It probably won't run as fast on that PC but I would try it anyway.
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  3. December 7th, 2004, 12:04 PM #3
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    thanks for info

    Quote Originally Posted by edball
    It's much more stable than ME. It probably won't run as fast on that PC but I would try it anyway.
    well I guess running slower is better than seizing up all the time.;-) My IBM Thinkpad Pentium 2 366mhz works fine with XP but I wasn't sure that the different processors and system of HP would be able to cope.....
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  4. December 7th, 2004, 12:10 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by mastermiaow
    well I guess running slower is better than seizing up all the time.;-) My IBM Thinkpad Pentium 2 366mhz works fine with XP but I wasn't sure that the different processors and system of HP would be able to cope.....
    I guess slow is a relative thing. It should run faster than your Thinkpad.
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  5. December 7th, 2004, 04:13 PM #5
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    ME was designed for the media-minded home user whuile XP was intended to be a professional workstation OS.

    Heck, Win98SE would be better than ME for stability.
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