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Hello. I am trying to program up a few HT1000's here for a trip after christmas with the same RSS I always use. (Stupidly enough, I sold my programming laptop [software ereased, obviously] and decided do upgrade to a desktop.) Well, the desktop is a Gateway GP6-350 running Windows XP Home with 256 ram. It is a Pentium II 348MHz. Hey, it may not be the best, but it'll 'git-r-done' for what I need it to, except, program HT1000's. SO, back to the point. Is there anyway I can start up the machine with DOS or DOS prompt and run the RSS, or do I need to install a different OS on one of my other HD's and use it as a secondary for programming?? I don't program my HT1k's much, so I would prefer to be able to boot up the computer in DOS some way and do it. Is there any possible way? (just FYI, there is a ZIP drive if I would be able too boot off of that with RSS)

Thanks for any help you guys can give.
Happy Holidays,
-Ray.

Easiest thing to do would be to creat a DOS boot disk and copy the HT1000 RSS onto it (assuming it would fit) and boot from the disk. Other than that, you could just create a small (less than 10MB) FAT16 partition in disk administrator in your admin tools then copy the HT1000 RSS files over there. Boot from your DOS boot disk and then change directory to that partition (which assuming your XP is NTFS, the DOS boot disk will only recognize the small FAT16 parition you created anyway) and then run the RSS.

You may also encounter a processor speed issue with that machine. What's the 'model' and release date of your RSS? If it is model RVN-4098H issued in May of '98 or later, you should be OK. If it's a prior revision, I wouldn't suggest trying it on that box. Otherwise, as WC4RAV stated, just boot from a DOS boot disk. If you need one, you can get it here.
The file you download from that link will be a self-extracting image file. Make sure you have a blank, formatted floppy disk in your floppy drive before extracting it, as that is where you will want to extract it to.

Virtually every IS department in any outfit of any size has a box in the back room filed with 486 DOS laptops just waiting to be thrown away. They'll usually give you one for the asking. Wipe out the disk and reinstall either MS-DOS 6.22 or PC-DOS 7.0. In fact, ask for two, and you'll have a hangar queen to canabalize to keep the other running.

You are running XP on a 350MHz machine? That must be awfully slow

K8TEK wrote:You are running XP on a 350MHz machine? That must be awfully slow

I was running it on a first gen P-233MHz w/128MB of EDO RAM for a while. As long as you choose "run for best performance" in the options, and don't bog it down with any sort of anti-virus, it hums along just fine.

Todd

Same here. Got it going on a dual boot 300 Pentium... it's off the network.. and relativley lite on other applications besides some CPS. Runs perfectly SSSSSMMMMMOOOOOOOTTTHHHHHH.

I've also ran XP on a 350 MHz PIII, with no problems. Actually had a fair amount of stuff going on on it, too. IIRC, I only had about 128 meg of RAM in it. Certainly wouldn't advise trying this with the minumum amount or RAM suggested for XP!

running XP Pro SP2 on this old Compaq Armada 7800 Intel mobile PII 300MHz with 192MB of RAM and runs beautifully. Actually, I had W2K SP4 on here and it was actually SLOWER to boot and run than XP Pro. I don't run any of that security crap, and never have a problem. I can browse the web, open winamp or Media player and play MP3's and OLE runs in the background..no problemo.

Thanks for all the help, guys. Now I need to go on the hunt for some floppys'. Well when I originally got the machine it only had 67Mb of RAM, and damn that thing was pretty slow. The RAM upgrade made the world of a difference on that one.

Have a safe and happy holiday,

-Ray