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I am going into unknown territory here. I Just bought an AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ setup for really cheap with no OS. I am not sure but is XP Pro going to be a problem working with this? That 64 seem like something not quite compatible with XP Pro (that is 32 bit)
You will be able to run XP Pro, in either 32-bit or 64-bit versions without any problems at all.
Thanks SS for your encouraging reply! I set everything up took a cloned copy of my SATA HD and tried to run it. Obviously XP did not like the new hardware so I ran the XP SP3 slipstream disk and did an install and when I got to the point of Repair or Fresh install I hit R. It showed me my partition and started to install new files. All good so far...until reboot time and I got a real quick blue screen and a auto reboot then it goes into a loop where it starts and repeats the reboot. I did a fresh install on a new SATA Drive to see if that works and it did without any problems. Now I cannot do a fresh install as I have too musch stuff on the other drive. The other drive is a little older SATA seagate barracuda 7200.10 160gb. So what am I missing?
Hardware configuation is:
mobo: MSI K9N6PGM2
cpu: amd athlon 64 x2+ 3.0 ghz
ram: (2)1mb kingston chips ddr2 pc2-5300 (667mhz)
That is all I have installed now to reduce confusion
Do an over-the-top install of XP. XP looks for all the hardware it was installed on and is finicky about changes. Your files, photos, etc. should be untouched.
Now when you mean over the top install I guess you are talking about the repair install? That is the only other way to install XP without going fresh...at least that I know of. I did that and the same problem occurs. My last post said that a fresh install went really well. I have 2 sata hd's that I can go back and forth and try it either way and the fresh install works on either drive and I get the same loop on both drives with the "R" install. It should not be that hard.
over-the-top install of XP; the repair install are one and the same thing.
over-the-top install was what we did until Microsoft finally came up with the "Repair Install"
So some of are dated. ;)
Over the top install is the same as Repair? or is there a different method not on my disk? I think something on my windows it doesn't like for it not to be able to repair it..Is there a way to uninstall SP3? That is probably the problem, I can't even install IE7 on it.
Train's right, over-the-top is the same thing as the Repair install option. Remove SP3 through Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs. IE7 is an exercise in frustration when paired with XP; better off using IE6 with XP IMHO.
Not sure if he's right about being dated!:D