Hi,
I,have recently upgraded a system from my old Pentium IV / 512 MB Ram / 40 GB HDD running Windows XP to a medium end system with Intel i5 -3570 / 8 GB Corsair RAM / 1TB HDD / Nvidia GTX 650 ti 1 GB DDR5 / Gigabyte B75 mobo. I also installed Win 7 x64 to match the PC. Now though I quite like the interface of WIN 7 but for some reasons I need WIN XP also. I have some old 32 bit programs ( viz like GMAT preps , some old 32 bit DOS games and other 32 bit early 2000 programs which I am quite in love with) Apart from that WIN XP is a no nonsense to-the-point OS and I love the way it handles the system with very meager configurations. Anyway now I am thinking of a dual- boot system with WIN XP in C: drive and WIN 7 in D:drive. I am perfectly aware that WIN XP will be able to see only 3.8 GB of the 4 GB Ram and maybe the 1 GB DDR5 GPU .Frankly speaking , WIN Xp is superfast with just 2 GB RAM only. Now my question is that whether there will be any problem in running my WIN XP OS with the above configuration or will there be any damage to my system. I have heard of BSOD errors sometimes if the OS tries to access the full RAM. Again I say I am OK with whatever amount of resources are accessible to the XP , and I have the Gigabyte Mobo & GTX 650 ti drivers for XP with me and I wont be connecting the XP partition to internet or any network so chances of it getting affected is low.
Thanks Sanu
I,have recently upgraded a system from my old Pentium IV / 512 MB Ram / 40 GB HDD running Windows XP to a medium end system with Intel i5 -3570 / 8 GB Corsair RAM / 1TB HDD / Nvidia GTX 650 ti 1 GB DDR5 / Gigabyte B75 mobo. I also installed Win 7 x64 to match the PC. Now though I quite like the interface of WIN 7 but for some reasons I need WIN XP also. I have some old 32 bit programs ( viz like GMAT preps , some old 32 bit DOS games and other 32 bit early 2000 programs which I am quite in love with) Apart from that WIN XP is a no nonsense to-the-point OS and I love the way it handles the system with very meager configurations. Anyway now I am thinking of a dual- boot system with WIN XP in C: drive and WIN 7 in D:drive. I am perfectly aware that WIN XP will be able to see only 3.8 GB of the 4 GB Ram and maybe the 1 GB DDR5 GPU .Frankly speaking , WIN Xp is superfast with just 2 GB RAM only. Now my question is that whether there will be any problem in running my WIN XP OS with the above configuration or will there be any damage to my system. I have heard of BSOD errors sometimes if the OS tries to access the full RAM. Again I say I am OK with whatever amount of resources are accessible to the XP , and I have the Gigabyte Mobo & GTX 650 ti drivers for XP with me and I wont be connecting the XP partition to internet or any network so chances of it getting affected is low.
Thanks Sanu
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