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I have noticed many complants about trouble loading XP on a 600E in this forum. I diden't know what everybody's problem was untill yesterday.
I was loading XP onto my 600E 2645-A5U. when many unexspected eorrors kept popping up I kept formatting and reloading with many error's, finally it acurred too me mabey it was the disc too blame, I removed the disk and sure enough not in very good shape
I polished the CD with an oily oven mitt, and too my srprise XP loaded
PERFECTLY My point is make sure your disc is very well taken care of, be sure make back-up copies of your disc use the copies too install XP. just don't sell em' or you'll end up washing oven mitts in jail
I hope this helps

Regards

Laptop_wizard

How well does a 600E (mine is a 2645-8au) run XP? Seems to me a 366Mhz p2 is a bit lame for XP, but then what do I know.

I've 98se in it now

I recently installed XP on a 600E that had Win98SE. I orignally installed Win98SE but decided to upgrade the hard drive. I had a problem formatting a used drive with Win98, so I popped in the XP CD and booted, knowing it would reformat the drive as NTSC (the FAT16 drive table got corrupted with a Linux utility -- long irrelevant story). That "fixed" the drive, and I decided to go ahead and install. Long story short -- it works BETTER than 98SE! It takes a bit longer to boot than 98SE did, but after boot it "feels" snappier. Programs seem to load a bit faster and response is better. Plug-n-play is better, and it's really nice not to have to load drivers for little thing. you have to load a manufacturers driver for every single thumb drive with Win98SE, XP auto detects and runs any without special drivers. I loaded XP Pro, by the way, not the home edition. All the video drivers and such work fine, didn't have to install any of the 600E drivers, just loaded the XP version of configuration manager.

Just make sure you have enough memory for what you're doing. Start taskmgr (or hit ctrl-shift-esc). One the Performance tab, if the Total in Commit Charge gets close to or over the Total in Physical Memory, you are swapping, and that's slow.

You can live with a little, but if it's doing it all the time, more memory is in order. 256MB for XP is OK, if you're not doing much.

Check what yours is after you try it.

I just sold a 600E 2645-5au. 4gbHD 256Ram intel cleron 500MHz CPU
Xp pro mint tft LCD screen, the customers/business (LCPS) are absalutely thrilled with the dang thing, buillt by (yours truely) it has my own desinge, Being sold too a landscapeing company it had too be durable, i acully have peices of metel guarding the hardrive, and it's sealed off too keep dust out, I ran mobil meter, and it stays pretty cool 46 idle.
This thing is FAST my dad has a 2.8GHz 512 ram, and control panel pops up literally TWICE as fast
thanks for your comments guys, please answer my other one as well.
"i'v never seen this befor"

Thanks, nice to know it can do if It must.

I may have to buy an XP upggrade for another computer soon (mini-tower) that one I know has the bearings to run xp (Anthlon 1gig)

I really need to be able to use a computer as a gateway to the net, XP lets me do that easy, I've not yet figured it out on this laptop