Name of anti-virus program ?

[GreenTea]

I used to use a free for personal use AV program a few years ago, but forgot the name.
It also doesn't show up on any searches.

It would have to run on a .386 on XP SP2 with 256 MB memory.

Tried AVG, but they forgot a few things in the code like seeing if you are already online when it wants to dl the update file and when it's in memory it "doesn't know what to do" and it's error messages foreground and background colors are the same. :-)

Vielen Dank.

[MichaelW]

On a 386?

[rags]

I didn't know anyone was actually still using one. Nevermind running XP on it.

[GreenTea]

I didn't know anyone was actually still using one. Nevermind running XP on it.

You bet. I believe in recycling and using what's available.

It's an Optiplex, with a 6 GB and 40 GB harddrive, and 256 MB of memory.
A CD burner and a DVD player.

XP runs quite well on it.

Spybot is the only thing that drags it's "heinie" when running.

I am happy with it.

[BlackVortex]

You are not,were not, and will not run XP on a 386, dude.

Especially not "quite well"

Seriously.

[GreenTea]

Care to make a small wager ?
I could use some Dough Ray Me. :-)

[BlackVortex]

Care to make a small wager ?
I could use some Dough Ray Me. :-)

Windows XP requires MMX support. You need a pentium. Unless Bill sent you a non-MMX-optimization enabled windows version.

:P

I also did some searching, example :
http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm

They couldn't even run it on 486 motherboard, using a Pentium Overdrive processor !
Or are you very special ?     :dance:

[GreenTea]

Care to make a small wager ?
I could use some Dough Ray Me. :-)

Windows XP requires MMX support. You need a pentium. Unless Bill sent you a non-MMX-optimization enabled windows version.

:P

I also did some searching, example :
http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm

They couldn't even run it on 486 motherboard, using a Pentium Overdrive processor !
Or are you very special ?     :dance:

You didn't answer my question.
Are you afraid of losing a dollar ?

[MichaelW]

It would have to run on a .386

I interpreted this to mean that the primary processor is an Intel or AMD 80386DX or one of the Cyrix or IBM "486" processors that were essentially a 386 design with some advanced features and a higher clock speed. I have run XP HE and Pro on a system with a 112 MHz AMD K5, no MMX, and no complaints during the installation. The system has 512MB of memory, and while a few things are noticeably slow, for the most part it runs fine. Nevertheless, considering that a Dell system should have an Intel processor (or processors), and that the Intel designs had no (internal) caching, a clock speed that I think never exceeded 33MHz, and a much lower IPC than the 486 and later processors, I have doubts that XP would run "quite well" on one.

[GreenTea]

My Optiplex GX1 has an Intel .386 running at 733 Mhz.

I picked it up for a hundred bucks with XP Pro.

(My previous system had an AMD K-5)

I have 256 MB ram. It really does run plenty fast for me.
I guess speed to relative to each person.

I plan to upgrade to 512 MB since I occasionally get out of resources message.
I don't want to wait too long, I didn't see many places with 2 sticks of PCI-100 100Mhz left.

Like when I accidentally open up 2 windows of Outlook Express. :-)

Take care.

[Mark Jones]

My Optiplex GX1 has an Intel .386 running at 733 Mhz.

What in the world? An Intel 80386XX, clocked at 733.0 MHz? Is this a Dell brand (Optiplex?) Model number?

Are you sure? I've never heard of such a thing.

[MichaelW]

The OptiPlex GX1 had a slot1 P2 or P3 processor:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ban_gx1/specs.htm

You would have lost your dollar...

[GreenTea]

The OptiPlex GX1 had a slot1 P2 or P3 processor:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ban_gx1/specs.htm

You would have lost your dollar...

I believe the poster said I could not run XP on a .386.
The wager was only humor.

[GreenTea]

Thanks for the site. I saved it will be studying it.

It says I can only have a max of 600 Mhz for my chip.

Windows, BIOS, and System Information For Windows says I have a 733 Mhz.

It works, that's all that matters. :-)

[MichaelW]

Windows, BIOS, and System Information For Windows says I have a 733 Mhz.

The original slot1 processor could have been replaced with a newer Socket 370 P3 in a slot1 adapter.