Friday, February 18, 2005
Update on XP64
It really is fast, here's a spec of the system: -
Biostar K8NHA-M Grand motherboard which has an NForce3-250 controller.
70GB Maxtor SATA 10K RPM drive 1, 200GB Seagate SATA 7200RPM drive 2.
On board Ethernet, 8 x USB, 2 Firewire, sound etc ... 1GB RAM.
AMD Athlon 3400+ CPU.
Compared to my old Dell (dual PIII 500MHz), SCSI disks etc. stuff flies, open Outlook and it's there and ready maybe a couple of seconds after you've double clicked on the icon (it used to take maybe 15 to 30 secs).
There are pecularities though, some of the media files weren't linked to, and some of the system apps were also wrong (XP64 had them pointing in the WINNT directory, rather than under the WINDOWS directory). Media player was also oddly installed, and that had to be manually fixed, running it set the correct file type associations and all was happy.
Printers are also odd, it wont allows 2000/XP drivers to be used, so currently I cant print at all. Maybe MS will have a fix for this soon? Be nice to see some content on the beta windowsupdate site, I'm sure MS are doing things internally, they should release some of this to the public.
Version 1218 was PANTS, I really wouldn't install that, it should never have been made public it was so full of bugs.
This version is 1289 (build 3790) (RC1) and it's usable. As said, not ready for production, but usable.
Maybe I should install a UN*X variant, that should also fly (though I might have a few problems with the graphics drivers).
Biostar K8NHA-M Grand motherboard which has an NForce3-250 controller.
70GB Maxtor SATA 10K RPM drive 1, 200GB Seagate SATA 7200RPM drive 2.
On board Ethernet, 8 x USB, 2 Firewire, sound etc ... 1GB RAM.
AMD Athlon 3400+ CPU.
Compared to my old Dell (dual PIII 500MHz), SCSI disks etc. stuff flies, open Outlook and it's there and ready maybe a couple of seconds after you've double clicked on the icon (it used to take maybe 15 to 30 secs).
There are pecularities though, some of the media files weren't linked to, and some of the system apps were also wrong (XP64 had them pointing in the WINNT directory, rather than under the WINDOWS directory). Media player was also oddly installed, and that had to be manually fixed, running it set the correct file type associations and all was happy.
Printers are also odd, it wont allows 2000/XP drivers to be used, so currently I cant print at all. Maybe MS will have a fix for this soon? Be nice to see some content on the beta windowsupdate site, I'm sure MS are doing things internally, they should release some of this to the public.
Version 1218 was PANTS, I really wouldn't install that, it should never have been made public it was so full of bugs.
This version is 1289 (build 3790) (RC1) and it's usable. As said, not ready for production, but usable.
Maybe I should install a UN*X variant, that should also fly (though I might have a few problems with the graphics drivers).
