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Can I upgrade from Win2K to XP on Compaq EVO D500 ?
I was given a Compaq D500 desktop as a gift. I want to upgrade the OS from
Win2000 to Win XP pro or Home Ed. I do not have any of the original disks that came with the machine. Can it be done easily? Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do it on this machine? I am going to try to load the XP on a new hard drive and will save the old hard drive, in case I crash and burn. It has a pentium 4, 1.5 mhz processor. I have upgraded the memory to 1 gig. Thanks! Mark |
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If you do not have a Windows 2000 Pro install CD, you need to buy the "full"
Windows XP package, either Home or Pro. Installation is not too hard. I can only anticipate that you will need to install some drivers for the motherboard chipset (install first), graphics, network and audio. Because the Compaq Evo D500 is a business class computer, HP's support is better than for the cheap consumer-grade computers. You can find all the drivers on the HP web site. Download them and burn them onto a CD BEFORE you start installing XP... Ben Myers On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:34:45 -0700, "Mark Wilson" wrote: I was given a Compaq D500 desktop as a gift. I want to upgrade the OS from Win2000 to Win XP pro or Home Ed. I do not have any of the original disks that came with the machine. Can it be done easily? Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do it on this machine? I am going to try to load the XP on a new hard drive and will save the old hard drive, in case I crash and burn. It has a pentium 4, 1.5 mhz processor. I have upgraded the memory to 1 gig. Thanks! Mark |
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Try going here to download drivers for either XP Home or Pro for the D500:
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/fi...&lang=en&cc=us HH "Mark Wilson" wrote in message ... I was given a Compaq D500 desktop as a gift. I want to upgrade the OS from Win2000 to Win XP pro or Home Ed. I do not have any of the original disks that came with the machine. Can it be done easily? Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do it on this machine? I am going to try to load the XP on a new hard drive and will save the old hard drive, in case I crash and burn. It has a pentium 4, 1.5 mhz processor. I have upgraded the memory to 1 gig. Thanks! Mark |
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Thanks for the info. It is very helpful, but it has raised some more
questions. . . Ques 1: I have a full version of both Win XP pro and home. Both are several years old. I have loaded pro on another machine, but I have never loaded the Home I have. Will the age of the Pro and Home I have or the fact of my previous installation of Pro cause a problem? Ques 2: After I download and save the utilities to a CD, do I load them using my existing hard drive and Win2000 or do I load them after I remove the existing hard drive, but before I load the Pro or Home Ed. on the new hard drive? I am just not sure of the timing of of the intermediate steps. Thanks, Mark ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... If you do not have a Windows 2000 Pro install CD, you need to buy the "full" Windows XP package, either Home or Pro. Installation is not too hard. I can only anticipate that you will need to install some drivers for the motherboard chipset (install first), graphics, network and audio. Because the Compaq Evo D500 is a business class computer, HP's support is better than for the cheap consumer-grade computers. You can find all the drivers on the HP web site. Download them and burn them onto a CD BEFORE you start installing XP... Ben Myers On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:34:45 -0700, "Mark Wilson" wrote: I was given a Compaq D500 desktop as a gift. I want to upgrade the OS from Win2000 to Win XP pro or Home Ed. I do not have any of the original disks that came with the machine. Can it be done easily? Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do it on this machine? I am going to try to load the XP on a new hard drive and will save the old hard drive, in case I crash and burn. It has a pentium 4, 1.5 mhz processor. I have upgraded the memory to 1 gig. Thanks! Mark |
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Mark,
No problem with the "age" of the software. The newer shrink-wrapped XP Home and Pro copies have SP2 applied, so you would need to update Windows after installing. Of course, with tons of patches and security fixes from Microsoft, you have to update anyway. After downloading and burning all the drivers & utilities onto a CD, install XP, then apply the drivers and utilities. The most important one is for network access, without which you can't access the Windows Update web site. .... Ben Myers On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 00:01:20 -0700, "Mark Wilson" wrote: Thanks for the info. It is very helpful, but it has raised some more questions. . . Ques 1: I have a full version of both Win XP pro and home. Both are several years old. I have loaded pro on another machine, but I have never loaded the Home I have. Will the age of the Pro and Home I have or the fact of my previous installation of Pro cause a problem? Ques 2: After I download and save the utilities to a CD, do I load them using my existing hard drive and Win2000 or do I load them after I remove the existing hard drive, but before I load the Pro or Home Ed. on the new hard drive? I am just not sure of the timing of of the intermediate steps. Thanks, Mark ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... If you do not have a Windows 2000 Pro install CD, you need to buy the "full" Windows XP package, either Home or Pro. Installation is not too hard. I can only anticipate that you will need to install some drivers for the motherboard chipset (install first), graphics, network and audio. Because the Compaq Evo D500 is a business class computer, HP's support is better than for the cheap consumer-grade computers. You can find all the drivers on the HP web site. Download them and burn them onto a CD BEFORE you start installing XP... Ben Myers On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:34:45 -0700, "Mark Wilson" wrote: I was given a Compaq D500 desktop as a gift. I want to upgrade the OS from Win2000 to Win XP pro or Home Ed. I do not have any of the original disks that came with the machine. Can it be done easily? Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do it on this machine? I am going to try to load the XP on a new hard drive and will save the old hard drive, in case I crash and burn. It has a pentium 4, 1.5 mhz processor. I have upgraded the memory to 1 gig. Thanks! Mark |
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