I wrote:

Would a AMD Athlon 800 with 256 RAM be able to handle W2K? I have XP Pro
on it now and it's a bit slow opening programs.

Alias

Noel Paton replied:

Should be OK, Alias - but can't you put another 256MB on it?

If I could, I would and leave XP on it. It was originally an ASUS board
but HP messed with and removed one of the RAM slots, leaving two when
there should be three. I have tried two 256s and no joy. I use one of
either of the 256s, it works. If I use two 128s, it works. If I use one
256 and one 128, no joy. Do you think the performance would be better
with W2K than XP Pro?

I also have a 5400 rpm IDE hard drive on it. Would putting a 7200 on it
improve performance?

Alias