Reply 100 of 119, by Sigtryggr
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ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-07, 12:35:Why does it need to be a self built computer?
If the guy isnt really confident enough in computers to find XP drivers then should we be pointing him towards building his own PC with a £200 motherboard when a £100 prebuilt will do everything he wants to do?
These are logical thoughts, but I hope that my effort at humor hasn't shifted the thinking in this helpful thread. I built more than a few PCs up to the Win 98 days and I recently got an ASRock Z68 Pro3-M mobo to work with Win XP Pro SP3 x86 on a 2.5" SATA III SSD. No offense to anyone, but I can't remember a single PC I built that went together without at least a few headaches. The Z68 machine, for example, forced me to learn how to use nLite to "mod" a stock Win XP x86 installation disk to create a "custom" ISO image that, eventually, got the system to work with a SATA III SSD ... but the point is that I have more than enough experience with PCs to know that one really can't expect building one to be what M$ used to refer to as "plug-and-play." 🤣
I am sure there are many here who are experts in installing XP on much newer hardware....
EDIT: I was going back through the thread and realized that I never wrote about the fact that both of our upcoming projects are not permanent. In other words, it would be pretty nice if the machine we build could still be used after the projects are finished. This is why posts to this thread - like the one describing an AMD AM4 machine that's running Win XP Pro SP3 to nearly its fullest potential - are also pretty interesting. I mean, if newer hardware can be set up to run legacy software, shouldn't that also be considered?