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(Message started by: - Mike - on Mar 9^th, 2007, 11:39pm)

Title: Operating System
Post by - Mike - on Mar 9^th, 2007, 11:39pm

(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

Title: Re: Operating System
Post by Mummra on Mar 10^th, 2007, 12:32am

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

Title: Re: Operating System
Post by hepburn on Mar 14^th, 2007, 10:53pm

Not much point running 64bit windows unless you have oodles of RAM, upwards of 3gb...

Title: Re: Operating System
Post by the_boogeyman on Mar 16^th, 2007, 3:10pm

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 :P :-*

Title: Re: Operating System
Post by Kjetil S on Mar 16^th, 2007, 6:27pm

on 03/16/07 at 15:10:30, the_boogeyman wrote:

if you have a 64bit processer you can ONLY run windows 64bit

Wrong ::)

64bit processors can run 32bit software and 32bit windows just fine.

Title: Re: Operating System
Post by the_boogeyman on Mar 16^th, 2007, 7:23pm

maybe but 32bit will not run properly with 64bit, which is what i was saying

Title: Re: Operating System
Post by Kjetil S on Mar 16^th, 2007, 9:19pm

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.

Title: Re: Operating System
Post by the_boogeyman on Mar 16^th, 2007, 9:57pm

yes yes we have already said this, maybe i should explain it in bold