by Driver » Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:14 pm
Lol. Ok.
I installed my current OS on the laptop via a USB drive after not being able to proceed with install from DVD due to read errors (drive has never worked properly, but in the past I was able to install "enough of it to get by." Strangely, I also got errors installing from USB. They might have been write errors. I hope not, but that's all that makes sense. It gets really hot when I install an OS (or do much of anything, really, that causes the CPU to run at 1.73 gHz instead of 800 mHz) and at around 174°F it starts cutting back. Might be close to an overheat situation, I don't know.
You should be able to install Windows XP from an .ISO that is on a flash drive. I've read that there are "pirate" hacks of it that run from a USB flash. Installing would seem pretty simple - but I don't know much.
My only real problem with installing from USB is that my desktop is so old (I think almost ten or twelve years old) that it cannot boot from USB. It's way better than my laptop, however, even though the laptop is newer. It has a video card (that has 128 meg of its own memory instead of being "shared") and the CPU doesn't overheat when I try to do something really difficult - like view a video (that's sarcasm, lol). Although the PS fan doesn't want to turn reliably and the one on the CPU has slowed down over time. I probably ought to look harder in dumpsters for parts, really, because once in a while it acts like it has trouble producing enough power to run both hard drives (found a second 40 gigger last year while diving) and the graphics; about one in three or four times I turn it on it'll go through the first boot menu but instead of properly displaying the (graphic) second one, I get a screen full of whitish weird text(ish) characters. I didn't really notice it as much before installing the extra drive, so I assume that is what is going on. I don''t really know. But other than that, it's been reliable and can even play games. Well... Tuxracer (and in Windows, I was able to play the first version of Farcry on lowest settings, which was still pretty amazing and it only stuttered in a few spots). I cannot play Tuxracer on my laptop, I guess it is too advanced? I cannot watch Hulu videos in full screen, either (at either selected Hulu resolution) - after a minute or so it cannot remain at 100% CPU power and has to drop down, at which point I start seeing mad amounts of dropped frames and then the screen freezes (audio often continues) and I have to hit Escape and hope that it eventually recognizes it and goes back to windowed. Right now I've got Hulu going in the other tab (just small video in window) and I keep typin faster than my text will display... It will catch up in fits and starts, I was two lines ahead a few moments ago. I think it is getting worse, I was hoping that when I installed 2.7 Ultimate Edition it would be better. Guess it's just a crummy cheap old laptop with a crippled CPU and built in Intel "graphics."
I'd just like to place the same version of the OS onto both the desktop and the laptop and have them both work ok. The newest would be nice, but as long as they are
both the same and both supported I don't suppose it matters overmuch.
Good luck on your USB flash Windows XP .ISO work.
Driver "Driving you over the edge..."
Laptop: HP dv6226 - T2250 1.7gHz Pentium Dual-Core, 1gig, Intel (non-)graphics, Mint 14 Xfce 32-bit, MS Windows Vista Premium DOA
Desktop: Old AMD Athlon 2200+ 1.792gHz, 1.256gig, nVidia 5200fx 128meg, a new used hard drive awaiting an OS
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 3200 (MIA)
Printer/Scanner/Fax/Copier: Epson Artisan 810 (Awesome & works in linux!)
Phone: Defy XT Android no-contract $19/mo. unlimited talk/text/data (thanks, Republic Wireless!)
Scanner: Radio Shack PRO-2042 made by GRE (STOLEN - thief, I've got a bullet with your name on it)
