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Discussion in 'Microsoft Windows' started by sam101, Aug 24, 2004.

  1. sam101

    sam101 Junior Member

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    I'm having problems installing Win 89 on a laptop with a AMD Athlon64 chip, from what i can gather these problems are not uncommon, can anyone point me in the right direction?

    Thanks in advance

    Sam101 :confused:
     
    sam101, Aug 24, 2004
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  3. handan2002

    handan2002 Member

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    Since you've obviously spent a bit of money already on getting that 64 chip (and its accompanying hardware), why don't you just fork out a bit more for XP? There shouldn't be any compatibility issues. Plus, you can actually take advantage of 64.
     
    handan2002, Aug 27, 2004
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  4. sam101

    sam101 Junior Member

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    Ahh alas tis not me but a friend, i do not possess the acumen to own such a coveted device, said friend is dead set in the past and has uninstalled xp in favour of 98 and run into issues. :confused:
     
    sam101, Aug 29, 2004
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  5. handan2002

    handan2002 Member

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    well, if he/she really likes it that much, can't they just switch to the "classic windows" theme? that theme doesn't make it too different from the win98 one
     
    handan2002, Aug 29, 2004
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  6. GavinO

    GavinO Distinguished Long Term member

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    There are many differences between 98 and XP beyond the theme; XP is simply broken for some applications. Also, there is not yet a build of XP that takes advantage of AMD-64 instructions (there is simply a version on the horizon, awaiting the release of Intel's 64-bit chip)
     
    GavinO, Aug 30, 2004
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