Hi everybody,
I'm a newbie and this is my first message here.
Hope you can help me, cause I really going crazy with it.
One friend of mine had this old desktop computer, with Windows Xp:
CPU AMD Athlon XP, 1000 MHz (10 x 100)
MB ASRock K7S41GX
GPU Integrated
RAM 2GB
BIOS American Megatrends Inc. P2.80
Physical Address Extension (PAE) Supported
IA SSE 2 Not Supported
With Windows Xp, after all, the system wasn't running bad: still enough good to play music, at least.
But I thought I could bring this old PC to a new life and make it able to browse internet too, updating the OS and the browsers.
So at first, I tried to install Windows 7. Many attempts, but always the same result: after the system booted from USB (created with Rufus, all possible different settings), it displayed "MBR OK, A disk read error occurred".
Anyway reading further, I later discovered that Windows 7 dismissed the NO-SSE2 support from the 2018 updates, so I abandoned that idea.
Then I focused in searching a Linux distro which could suit the PC features, and I tried:
- Xubuntu (the live version was running so super slow that i renounced in trying to install it);
- Lubuntu (I don't remember now exactly which problem, but I couldn't try nor the live version neither to install it);
- Mint Cinnamon (both live version than installed one were super slow, and it was showing a message about the CPU working very hard cause a GPU accelerator was missing);
- LXLE (a little better than previous distro, but the live version still super slow, like 30-40sec. to open the browser, while each time I tried to install it, it always crashed the installer in the last step).
What can I still try, Puppy Linux only? I don't know it, but from what i heard, I hoped I could have a little bit more robust OS on this PC, which of course is very old, but not so super old as many other I read about in Linux forum.
Maybe to re-install Windows XP would be stil, the best choice?
Thanks in advance
I'm a newbie and this is my first message here.
Hope you can help me, cause I really going crazy with it.
One friend of mine had this old desktop computer, with Windows Xp:
CPU AMD Athlon XP, 1000 MHz (10 x 100)
MB ASRock K7S41GX
GPU Integrated
RAM 2GB
BIOS American Megatrends Inc. P2.80
Physical Address Extension (PAE) Supported
IA SSE 2 Not Supported
With Windows Xp, after all, the system wasn't running bad: still enough good to play music, at least.
But I thought I could bring this old PC to a new life and make it able to browse internet too, updating the OS and the browsers.
So at first, I tried to install Windows 7. Many attempts, but always the same result: after the system booted from USB (created with Rufus, all possible different settings), it displayed "MBR OK, A disk read error occurred".
Anyway reading further, I later discovered that Windows 7 dismissed the NO-SSE2 support from the 2018 updates, so I abandoned that idea.
Then I focused in searching a Linux distro which could suit the PC features, and I tried:
- Xubuntu (the live version was running so super slow that i renounced in trying to install it);
- Lubuntu (I don't remember now exactly which problem, but I couldn't try nor the live version neither to install it);
- Mint Cinnamon (both live version than installed one were super slow, and it was showing a message about the CPU working very hard cause a GPU accelerator was missing);
- LXLE (a little better than previous distro, but the live version still super slow, like 30-40sec. to open the browser, while each time I tried to install it, it always crashed the installer in the last step).
What can I still try, Puppy Linux only? I don't know it, but from what i heard, I hoped I could have a little bit more robust OS on this PC, which of course is very old, but not so super old as many other I read about in Linux forum.
Maybe to re-install Windows XP would be stil, the best choice?
Thanks in advance