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Windows XP

Knoxx29 said:
I don't have another option than to buy an original windows xp professional CD, i want the 64 bit because the 32 bit version it's limited to 3GB of ram.
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erocker said:
XP isn't really sold retail anymore since Microsoft no longer supports it or sells it. Your only real (legitimate) choice is ebay and even then, most of the time you're going to get a fake/pirated copy. x64 version is even more difficult to find.
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lexluthermiester said:
Not if buy from sellers with good reps, generally. Amazon has used copies of XP as well.
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Definitely Amazon on this.

Just find XP64 with SP2 already in it
 
qubit said:
I'm curious why you want it, anyway.
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That was actually stated over in the Xeon Owners Club thread. He's going to be doing some old-school gaming on it. XP is known to be much more compatible with some of the older/classic titles. While newer OS's can run most of them, it can be glitchy with many and it's just easier and better to run XP. Though with XP64 he'd likely run into a few similar problems. There are many instances where nothing beats the OS the games were originally designed for.
 
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eidairaman1 said:
Definitely Amazon on this.

Just find XP64 with SP2 already in it
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I could only find one used copy on Amazon for $150 bucks from a 3rd party seller.
 
I have a copy, somewhere. Genuine and all.

If I can dig it out, I'd mail it to you for postage plus $15. Let me do an estimate to germany, that's where you are right?
 
R-T-B said:
I have a copy, somewhere. Genuine and all.

If I can dig it out, I'd mail it to you for postage plus $15. Let me do an estimate to germany, that's where you are right?
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Right.
 
Knoxx29 said:
Right.
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Ok, I just need to get a postal quote for first class to germany. It won't be cheap I imagine as the USPS is designed to ream shippers when going internationally last I checked, but I can definitely beat the $150.00 amazon rate by a large margin.

I also need to find it and make sure the serial is still with it. Will post pics if I do (with serial blurred, obviously).
 
erocker said:
I could only find one used copy on Amazon for $150 bucks from a 3rd party seller.
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Wow, just looked that up and you're right. And there are none on Amazon.de.

R-T-B said:
Ok, I just need to get a postal quote for first class to germany. It won't be cheap I imagine as the USPS is designed to ream shippers when going internationally last I checked, but I can definitely beat the $150.00 amazon rate by a large margin.
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Use DHL, they're much better and have a partner-ship program with the USPS.
 
R-T-B said:
Ok, I just need to get a postal quote for first class to germany. It won't be cheap I imagine as the USPS is designed to ream shippers when going internationally last I checked, but I can definitely beat the $150.00 amazon rate by a large margin.

I also need to find it and make sure the serial is still with it. Will post pics if I do (with serial blurred, obviously).
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Take your time.
 
lexluthermiester said:
That was actually stated over in the Xeon Owners Club thread. He's going to be doing some old-school gaming on it. XP is known to be much more compatible with some of the older/classic titles. While newer OS's can run most of them, it can be glitchy with many and it's just easier and better to run XP. Though with XP64 he'd likely run into a few similar problems. There are many instances where nothing beats the OS the games were originally designed for.
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Considering 64bit OS were not popular for home systems and 32 bit was the most compatible with games for its time, its possible most games might have fits in the 64bit environment
 
eidairaman1 said:
Considering 64bit OS were not popular for home systems and 32 bit was the most compatible with games for its time, its possible most games might have fits in the 64bit environment
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In my experience with XP64, which is admittedly limited, many games and programs run fine. The ones that seem to have the most problems are mostly those which had a lot of custom coding that didn't play well with the differences in the way the 64bit version ran. With the newest versions of Win64bit these problems have been resolved. With XP though, 64bit was still a somewhat fresh take on computing and as a result the learning curve was high.
 
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@Knoxx29 I've got a Dell XP Pro 64 SP2 ISO(from my original physical CD) + an unused key(supposedly legit, but I never used it, so can't confirm). It's OEM obviously. And I can't guarantee the ISO came out perfect, or if the key is good or not. But it's free if you want it. I've got no use for it. Uploading it to my Google Drive as we speak. PM me if interested.
 
My copy is a 2006 original, no service pack. Real genuine disc and serial though.

Lmk if you still want.
 
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qubit said:
There's no XP 64-bit with SP3. You'll just have to install the patches, if they're even available.

I dunno how you're gonna get a legit copy of it, unfortunately. As you're finding out, all those third party sellers nowadays are dodgy and sell pirate copies. Perhaps email Microsoft, briefly explain why you need this out of date OS and see if they'll sell you a copy. Long shot, but I can't think of anything else.

I'm curious why you want it, anyway. You're much better off with a later OS if it's to get over the 32-bit RAM limit, even the equally obsolete Vista.
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For Nostalgic retro gaming
I would install XP-Pro sp3 x86 and the 3x 2gb as your probably experience problems with some games on a XP64

As for Contacting microsoft :roll: They will probably say sorry not Available anymore we can sell you a copy of win 10 and you can use comparability mode for your needs
 
If I remember correctly, the extra RAM could be used under 32bit Windows XP with the help of programs that could create RAM disks. This isn't the same of course as having all the RAM available to the system, but creating a RAM drive of 2.5GB for example(in the case of 6GB RAM) and throwing there (part) of the SWAP, could make that extra memory some kind of useful, without having to search for the 64bit version of XP.
 
He will be back to let you know what he has done.
 
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lexluthermiester said:
Have at it. Start installing games and let's see how it goes.
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i have been since today at 15:30 installing this damned 64 bit, 8 hours and 15 minutes lol, the installation was very tricky :banghead:
 
On my system I had xp 32-bit for testing purposes and installed driver booster and installed drivers just fine. Also the last known version of opera 36 and Firefox [I think the latest will still work but if not then version 51]
 
lexluthermiester said:
Drivers?
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I had a few drivers issues but not a big deal but the big problem was when i tried to install/enable AHCI i tried and tried many times but at the end i gave up because i was too tired, another problem was when i tried to install Windows from usb, i created four Bootable usb disk and none of them worked i always got an error saying missing or corrupted file, i got it working after i made a copy of the iso in a CD, honestly i had a bad experience installing it but at the same time fun.

rk3066 said:
driver booster
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I don't know how i forgot to try driver booster maybe it could find the AHCI drivers.

rk3066 said:
Firefox [I
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I am having issues with latest version of Firefox, i will post tomorrow because for today i am done.
 
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Windows Xp only supports legacy mode
 
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