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granorpio
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Operating System
« on: Mar 9th, 2007, 11:39pm » |
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(A question if I may from a rather sad individual) 
Hi
Is anyone using Windows XP Professional x64bit as their OS and have any views on it please e.g. software compatibility with 32bit software etc. etc.
TIA
Mike
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Mummra
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Re: Operating System
« Reply #1 on: Mar 10th, 2007, 12:32am » |
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I pesonally have not run XP64, but do know a couple of people who have and have had now problems with it, and AFAIK it is designed to run both 64 & 32 bit applications so pretty much anything that runs in XP should work with XP64.
The only issue I can foresee is hardware related, not all manufacturers decided to support XP64 and therefore it may be worth doing a search for any drivers you may need first. One reason I never tried XP64 is that I was unable to get drivers for my sound card, webcam or scanner so decided to give it a miss.
Dave
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Re: Operating System
« Reply #2 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 10:53pm » |
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Not much point running 64bit windows unless you have oodles of RAM, upwards of 3gb...
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the_boogeyman
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if you have a 64bit processer you can ONLY run windows 64bit
if you have a standard pc ie not 64bit processer then you should ony install the 32bit windows.
you cannot install 64bit on a 32bit pc, IT WILL NOT WORK it is designed for AMD64bit.
who-ever decided to put 64bit on there pc which is not 64bit is a total numb nut  
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the_boogeyman
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maybe but 32bit will not run properly with 64bit, which is what i was saying
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Kjetil S
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Re: Operating System
« Reply #6 on: Mar 16th, 2007, 9:19pm » |
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Huh?
A 32bit cpu will only run 32bit OS'es, like the standard Windows XP.
A 64bit cpu will run both 32bit and 64bit OS'es, without any problems. Most, if not all, modern cpu's are 64bit, and most of them run an 32bit operating system.
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the_boogeyman
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yes yes we have already said this, maybe i should explain it in bold
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