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[cybertimber2008]

If you have trouble finding drivers out of the box, I'd recommend trying DriverMax or something similar to see if it can find the drivers.

[Nothing Here]

I am loading Win7 now on it. If it doesn't work, then I will just enable PAE on the x86 kernel:
http://msdn.microsof...28VS.85%29.aspx

[Ambroos]

It shouldn't be too hard to get everything working on Windows 7. Windows XP x64 isn't always a good idea, some applications have issues with it and you'll have an even harder time finding drivers.

Lakota Rising, on 03 October 2012 - 18:01, said:

I am loading Win7 now on it. If it doesn't work, then I will just enable PAE on the x86 kernel:
http://msdn.microsof...28VS.85%29.aspx

Don't ever do that. It leads to heaps of compatibility issues. A friend of mine tried it once because of driver issues in x64 and it was horrible. PAE is a last resort if no other x64 Windows works (which would seriously surprise me).

[Nothing Here]

Ambroos, on 03 October 2012 - 18:04, said:

It shouldn't be too hard to get everything working on Windows 7. Windows XP x64 isn't always a good idea, some applications have issues with it and you'll have an even harder time finding drivers.



Don't ever do that. It leads to heaps of compatibility issues. A friend of mine tried it once because of driver issues in x64 and it was horrible. PAE is a last resort if no other x64 Windows works (which would seriously surprise me).

I did this once before a few years ago and never had an issue. Of course it was a Linux distro I was using. But it never hurts to try. It will be a fresh install of XP anyways, so no big deal if I have to reformat the system.

[nhjay]

In regards to XP x64 being supported, as I recall, it was built on the 2003 Server kernal (5.2?) and not the orignal XP kernal (5.1?) and thus as noted follows the 2003 service pack cycle which is why it was only ever up to SP2. A bit of googling will show that the support lifecycle end date for extended support is as that for XP SP3 (x86), 8/4/2014, so the OS is still supported, and should be usable, pending driver availablity of course.

That said, I would still go with the recomendation of Windows 7 vs XP x64. I' running 7 Ultimate x64 on an Athlon X2 5600+ with 4GB DDR2 and it runs beautifully.

[MtnDewCodeRedFreak]

On my Rosewill tower with Pentium D, 4 GB RAM, and ATI Radeon X300, I put XP x64 on a small partition in the HD - it seems to recognize all my barebones hardware just fine, even the Ethernet driver as well. I didn't connect my Logitech webcam though.

I do not intend to connect my all-in-one printer on XP x64 because I have Server 2003 R2 and 2008 R2 on other large partitions (it's a 500-GB HD) and I used those server OSes as a print server, along other roles like file-sharing. The XP x64 is just a test bed for curiosity. I'd have installed it on my laptop, but the Core 2 Duo is incompatible with XP x64 (I tried everything, even on a VM).

I don't use XP much nowadays anyway. My primary OS is Win 7 and Server 2008 R2.

On a side note though, I have access to download Server 2012. Will that even work under the hardware? I'll test it out when I get back to my towers (I'm out at my brother's apartment at the moment).

[notuptome2004]

windows 7 should work fine for you on that systen even Windows 8 would so you should be ready to go with no troubles on installing either system

[Jason Stillion]

Note: Windows XP 64bit shipped with SP1 built in, so SP2 is the same as SP3 for Xp code wise.

[Nothing Here]

Well, Win7 installed. Only thing it doesn't install is the old r100 radeon.

[Arceles]

Lakota Rising, on 03 October 2012 - 18:40, said:

Well, Win7 installed. Only thing it doesn't install is the old r100 radeon.

Find the legacy drivers for it... I remember to had a laptop with an iGPU radeon xpress1150 (see my signature), it was out of the official package set but it was always available on the legacy package and always enabled transparencies for me (note, it must have pixel shader 2 for transparencies at least)

[bjoswald]

Just use Windows 7. There's no need for XP anymore unless your system is ancient.

[+Brando212]

bjoswald, on 03 October 2012 - 21:00, said:

Just use Windows 7. There's no need for XP anymore unless your system is ancient.

which you would realize the system in question sorta is if you would read through the thread

[Lord Method Man]

Brando212, on 03 October 2012 - 21:02, said:

which you would realize the system in question sorta is if you would read through the thread

From reading this thread it sounds like the system in question can run Windows 7 just fine.

[+Brando212]

Lord Method Man, on 03 October 2012 - 21:05, said:

From reading this thread it sounds like the system in question can run Windows 7 just fine.

that's why i said, "sorta old". the only driver he has left to get working is the display driver from the looks of it

[n_K]

PAE only interferes with poorly written graphics drivers, it's a common myth that it causes system instability (Every server with > 3.5GB RAM in the 90s and 00s used PAE without any hicups)