anyone using xp? [Archive] - Overclockers Forums

deadhead

12-15-01, 03:01 PM

just wondering if ne1 was using windows xp, i have 98 and its fine, i think its just another microsoft scam:mad: : buy the software for a riduculously high price, upgrade bugs they put in, and 6 mo.s later buy a newer version,
i would switch to linux if i had the guts:rolleyes:

XprincoX

12-15-01, 03:52 PM

nah winXP is one of the best OS IMHO... its totally customizable. And great user interfaces too. :D

CyboRob

12-15-01, 06:46 PM

Good OS, overpriced? Yeap

12-15-01, 06:59 PM

if you can I would go with linux it is by far the cheapest. I like XP but I am getting tired of M$. they are too big and too powerful.

XprincoX

12-15-01, 07:08 PM

Originally posted by ThreeD
Good OS, overpriced? Yeap

Well as the dominating distributor, they basically control the market... So should we all boycott!!?! :D

deadhead

12-15-01, 09:41 PM

see id love to use linux, but im just not brave enough, i dont think there are as much games and im not too familiar

abb1

12-16-01, 08:24 AM

Yes it is the best OS to date. Believe me, I tried them all. It is rock stable, excellent user interface, and I love the driver database it has. When I installed Winxp from scratch, all my drivers (NIC card, SBLive, Graphics card, Printer Driver, Scanner Driver, etc.) were allready installed and loaded. YES, it is expensive. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!! Everybody wants something for nothing!!! You want a fantastik Operating System, you have to pay for it.
Abb

cyberey66

12-16-01, 12:55 PM

To bad XP doesn't have working drivers for my radeon VE, and my scsi card.

supergenius74

12-17-01, 07:33 AM

Ive tried it and can't justify it. It has nothing to offer me or any of my co workers, therefore we will continue to use 98 until MS comes up with something better. XP looks to be a good OS for a new computer owner and/or user. Anyone else who has experience with coputers and other OS's will not see anything to make it worth upgrading. :beer:

abb1

12-17-01, 09:44 AM

Originally posted by supergenius74
we will continue to use 98 until MS comes up with something better.
You have to be kidding, right? Win 98 is not a reliable or stable O.S..How many BSOD's have you had since first installing? Too many to count, I bet. The features of XP, in my eyes are a bonus, but my main reason for going with XP is the stability. I have used Win98 since it came out, and trust me I do know what I am talking about.
Abb

supergenius74

12-17-01, 10:51 AM

if you think winXP offers enough reason to upgrade then you must be easily amused with pretty colors and nice little rounded menus. If you think win98 is an unstable OS then you obviously have not ever used one that was installed and configured correctly. I have been using win98 since before it came out, my boss is a beta-tester for Microsoft and I have used win95 for 3 years prior to that and I have used every MS OS ever produced and I do know what I am talking about. When a system is built correctly and the OS is installed correctly there aren't any errors. Unfortunately too many people think they know what they are doing even though MS did not intend for them to install it. We tried for 2 weeks to get a dual processor workstation to work with XP, and we were un-successful, the OS is so badly written that it corrupted files while trying to boot the first time. We gave up on that, we also could not determine enough reason (new options or capabilities that it offers to warrant upgrading over 100 computers and purchasing all the licenses. In an economy where money is tight, WinXP does is not a good financial decision.

XprincoX

12-17-01, 03:12 PM

Well since win98 has been out for waaay longer than XP, of coarse MS has fixed most of the bugs. As with any software, the longer consumers have a product, the more updates a distributor can release. But i still have to give a hand to MS for there new OS. As it finally has resolved some of the most innoying problems, as abb1 was saying. :D

trey_w

12-18-01, 03:18 PM

i like the XP, since it was free

at my college, they are joined with microsoft in some kind of deal and any student enrolled in a comp class can get any software for free

full versions

abb1

12-18-01, 03:52 PM

Originally posted by trey_w
i like the XP, since it was free

at my college, they are joined with microsoft in some kind of deal and any student enrolled in a comp class can get any software for free

full versions
WOW, thats not like Microsoft, unless they are getting some serious kickbacks from your College. Cheers:beer:
Abb

Maximus Nickus

12-18-01, 04:05 PM

www.tweakxp.com download new interface's!!!

cyberey66

12-18-01, 05:29 PM

David

12-19-01, 12:07 PM

I am a massive Linux fan and even I think that XP Pro is fantastic. Not quite as good as linux, but IMHO a lot better than 98SE

Maximus Nickus

12-19-01, 03:57 PM

Originally posted by satan

Any software? Even stuff like backoffice?

I hope you don't mean Back Orifice the most deadly trojan horse ever.

If you mean MS Office then say so!:D

JAWS

12-20-01, 04:34 PM

I have used 98 since 1998, and I thought it was the best! Why rock the boat is it's stable. I just got XP Pro and I am blow away how stable it runs! I can't believe I waited this long! I can even overclock more!:cool:

cyberey66

12-20-01, 06:25 PM

Originally posted by nick_cw

I hope you don't mean Back Orifice the most deadly trojan horse ever.

If you mean MS Office then say so!:D

No, i mean the corporate software that costs over $1000 or somthing crazy high like that.

David

12-21-01, 05:13 AM

I am in love withe GUI- mmm...silver - I have NEVER had a crash and my 3D Games seem better. The only thing it didn't do properly was sort out my modem, but I'll do that this weekend.

YOB

12-30-01, 05:35 PM

I am a windows 2000 user just wondering if xp is just a jazzed up GUI on 2000 or a good upgrade? also believe it or not I am actually considering going back to 98se win 2000 has my vid card, nic card, sound blaster, and USB all on IRQ 11 and I cant change the IRQ settings and it locks when I game. 98 let me manually change settings but is not nearly as stable so it is a trade off. any one have any suggestions on the IRQ prob? I've done everything moved the cards reserved irq's disabled comports nothing seems to work

Element-Xero

12-30-01, 05:50 PM

Yes, WinXP has a pretty GUI, but i dont care about that kinda stuff. I got a genuine improvement in 3D performance and stability. It hasn't even crashed once. There are a lot of improved features such as the fact that it is built on a genuine 32 bit platform. Win98 was based on a 16 bit, and that 16 bit was based on an 8bit (dos). My .02 is, if you got the extra hundred bucks, go for it. You will see a dramatic improvement in everything, not just the "pretty colors and rounded menus".

Element-Xero

12-30-01, 05:51 PM

Maximus Nickus

12-30-01, 06:17 PM

Most Boards allow forced IRQ's, but you can change them in XP, well at least I have!

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cyberey66

01-01-02, 06:18 PM

Originally posted by Element-Xero
You will see a dramatic improvement in everything, not just the "pretty colors and rounded menus".

I turned off that feature, now my XP looks like 2k. It was cool at first, but then it got annoying

arhines

01-09-02, 01:07 AM

My eXPerience (excuse the bad pun) with XP has been nothing less than stellar. One of the things I like most of all is that you can put a box together, plop the cd in the drive, boot up, and leave it to install on its own. When you come back, it has pretty decent drivers installed for everything in there, and it has the network up and running...only problem is that it starts bugging you for an activation number... I bought an academic version from the u. bookstore, and found that the key was not valid...called up msft, and they said that someone had stolen the key. ...and I thought ripping the halflife box open to get that cd key was annoying :-/

abb1

01-09-02, 06:10 PM

My Soundblaster Audigy does not work properly with Windows XP. I had to go back to WinME and it works fine with it. When XP gets their bugs worked out , I will try it again. Also, not all games work with XP.

cjlax5

01-09-02, 07:00 PM

i have not had any trouble with progs not runnig under xp. if you already have win 2k i would say that there is no great advantage to upgrading, but i really think 98 users could use the xtra stability + features of xp.

bdf24

01-10-02, 05:44 AM

Originally posted by cjlax5
i have not had any trouble with progs not runnig under xp. if you already have win 2k i would say that there is no great advantage to upgrading, but i really think 98 users could use the xtra stability + features of xp.

My thoughts exactly!

Yodums

01-10-02, 07:10 AM

David

01-10-02, 02:10 PM

Found one problem - my friends tv card is only 95\98 compatible. Not 2k or XP.

wildone

01-10-02, 03:57 PM

Well I dont like the activation but other then that its a great OS ,trust me I had a petition about boycotting it because of the activation.I have ran everything since win 3.1 ,this is the best hands down.The stability is unreal ,I ran my PC for 29 days straight without a reboot ,the only reason it got restarted when it did was the power went off.I also only have to install 1 count them 1 driver on my PC ,well since I got my gf3 its 2 ,the sound and the video card ,my other things work fine and its always nice to set up a system and not have to use 10 different deivers disk.
If you are gonna get it ,unless you have two processors get the home edition ,there is no difference in the two at all.

wildone

Wicked Klown

01-10-02, 10:51 PM

Tomorrow I will be buying the Full Version of XP and have a ?. Can you put the whole computer together or do you have to do like you do in Windows 98S.E. and put in the card then install then shut down then add another card then install.

Element-Xero

01-10-02, 11:07 PM

I never had to put in cards one by one in 98se....

I dunno why you would do that:eh?:

But yeah, definately put together the whole comp.

Wicked Klown

01-10-02, 11:27 PM

Thats what I was told to do. That way you can tell if theres a prolem with something instead of having to take everything out to pin point the problem.

Gliderguy

01-10-02, 11:55 PM

If you still have some ancient games that were originally designed for Win 95, XP may or may not run them correctly,

Risk by Hasbro for example...

Everything else I have tried has run fine. Perhaps you can chalk this one to Hasbro's less than stellar software division...

kd7aze

01-11-02, 11:29 AM

Originally posted by Gliderguy
If you still have some ancient games that were originally designed for Win 95, XP may or may not run them correctly,

Risk by Hasbro for example...

Everything else I have tried has run fine. Perhaps you can chalk this one to Hasbro's less than stellar software division...

Hmmm. As a counterpoint to that, I was never able to get the original scorched earth to run on my 98 machine, but once I upgraded to XP, it ran without a hitch. Interesting, no?

I'm all for XP, though I don't like microsloth as a company. But what can I say? If they put out a good product, you might as well use it!

Kid

Maximus Nickus

01-11-02, 12:17 PM

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jw50

01-11-02, 01:10 PM

Originally posted by Klownin79
Tomorrow I will be buying the Full Version of XP and have a ?. Can you put the whole computer together or do you have to do like you do in Windows 98S.E. and put in the card then install then shut down then add another card then install.

Some people recommend that you only start out with the video card installed and then add other cards one at a time so that if there is a problem it is easier to narrow down the cause of the problem. As long as you know that all the hardware components are XP compatible just put the system together and do a clean install of XP. Then go do all the windows updates before you start installing your applications. You should have no problems.

wildone

01-11-02, 02:05 PM

Originally posted by jw50

As long as you know that all the hardware components are XP compatible just put the system together and do a clean install of XP.

I left everything in ,the only reason you would wanna do them 1 at a time especially in XP is if you were haveing problems,you can put the windows XP disk in while booted into windows and it will tell you if anything will or will not work ,but most can be fixed with only new driver downloads.

wildone

Morbid

01-11-02, 02:08 PM

Originally posted by abb1
My Soundblaster Audigy does not work properly with Windows XP. I had to go back to WinME and it works fine with it. When XP gets their bugs worked out , I will try it again. Also, not all games work with XP.

What the... why in the WORLD would you even consider WinME?? I would used Win95 original version way before I would even consider that horrible excuse for an OS called WinME. Thats IMHO, I personally use WinXP Pro and love every bit of it.

cyberey66

01-11-02, 04:17 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Klownin79
Tomorrow I will be buying the Full Version of XP and have a ?. Can you put the whole computer together or do you have to do like you do in Windows 98S.E. and put in the card then install then shut down then add another card then install. [/QUOT0E]

I just booted up the cd with all my hardware installed, and then just let it sit for half an hour came, back, finished up the install, and ran windows update. The default drivers where stable for me until I updated some of them.