Correct Bill. I think he meant to say PII since that's what I had stated
was my old system.
Ron
00 PB SLT QC 4X2 5.9 46RE 3.92 LSD
For modifications see my DML Profile (URL follows)
http://www.twistedbits.net/WWWProfile/dakota/Kw9pV1EkFeOYY
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Bill Pruitt
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 9:58 AM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: RE: Re: AAAARRRGGGGHH!
Sorry Jeff, there is no such processor as the PIII 333.
The Pentium II series went up to 450MHz, and the PIII series started there.
A PIII 450 is as low as you can go in the PIII series.
Here's a link to the Intel page,
http://support.intel.com/support/processors/sspec/p3p.htm
Bill Pruitt
'01 QC 4.7, Auto, Flo-Pro exhaust, Downey Tarp, Viper Alarm, RhinoLiner, K&N
Glas-Scapes "Stars and Stripes", "Tail-Gate Open" warning light
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/billspages/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Durling" <jdurling@mindspring.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: DML: RE: Re: AAAARRRGGGGHH!
> Ron,
>
> Don't mean to give you bad news but you are not going to install XP on a
PIII
> 333 and be very happy. Been running it in the lab at work for a month and
it
> wants a PIII 500 with 256 mb of memory just to stabilize. I can see why
intel is
> banking on this XP to come out and boost sales of the PIV. Plus, unlike
win 2K
> this os seems to like to take up around 1.5gb of hard disk space. I have
been
> testing both the consumer and buisness versions and there doesn;t seems to
be
> much difference other than security. I would recommend if you want to go
that
> route get ahold of win 2K professional and use that. It doesn't hog up as
much
> disk space and it doesn't care about running on a PIII 333 as long as you
give
> it at least 128 mb of memory.
>
> Jeff Durling
> '01 4x2 QC SLT+
>
> Ronald Wong wrote:
>
> > Okay, it seems to have resolved itself. Once I went through the BIOS
setup
> > I guess it figured out what it needed to do. I now have three
partitions of
> > 10 GB each. Now for Partition Magic, then Windows on one of them, then
wait
> > for XP to get here, load my Dak scanner stuff in the third one (Dak
> > content), and voila, I'm done.
> >
> > Ron
> > 00 PB SLT QC 4X2 5.9 46RE 3.92 LSD
> > For modifications see my DML Profile (URL follows)
> > http://www.twistedbits.net/WWWProfile/dakota/Kw9pV1EkFeOYY
>
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