Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Windows XP Starter Edition Snubs P4, Athlon

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the for-starters-only dept.

Apu writes "CNET is reporting that Microsoft's Windows XP Starter Edition operating system specifically checks the result of the CPUID instruction on bootup and fails to continue if a Pentium 4 or Athlon processor is detected."

11 of 705 comments (clear)

  1. Fuck by hardcorebuttsecks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You

    --
    http://www.gay-sex-access.com/
  2. Let me be the first to say: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOL. And fp.

  3. Wrong section? by kickabear · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shouldn't this be under "Your Rights Online?"

    --
    This space for rent.
  4. Megadeth's latest album kicks ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't give a turd what anybody says, The System Has Failed is awesome. I mean, it's no Rust In Peace, but it's every bit as good as anything Megadeth did after Countdown To Extinction. The World Needs A Hero kicks ass too, but nobody bought it because it was their first album after Risk, which sucked petrefied testicles. That, and because the cover had Vic Rattlehead emerging from some dude's stomach, which is just fucking gross.

  5. Re:Perhaps a strange suggestion, but... by BWJones · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It doesn't really *solve* the problem, it just makes it more "friendly" to these sorts of microsoft displays.

    Yes, of course the real solution would be to go to a more reliable operating system, but if I said that, the Microsofties would flame me. :-)

    --
    Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
  6. Re:Arbitrary marketing decision by codeonezero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That was my comment btw...I just mistyped my login and hit post by accident :)

    Just thought i'd take responsibility for my own posts.

    --

    ....
    int main (void) { ... }

  7. Re:Perhaps a strange suggestion, but... by macdaddy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But the rest of us would love you (see nick above). No, not in that way! Sicko

  8. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  9. Easy fix, don't run XP, install LINUX! by MrJerryNormandinSir · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Linux is a far superior OS anyway. Just dump XP and run Linux!

  10. Re:Perhaps a strange suggestion, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do any of you USE windows? If you get the BSOD it is because you have not set your machine to auto reboot on hard crash.

    I also have to ask what you do to your machines? I am runnign XP sp2. i do video capture/editing photo editing, scanning, dvd authoring, web surfing and the occasional low end game. My machine has been running continuously since I installed my DVD burner about 4 months ago. My work machine runs SQL server, visual studio, and all my other dev apps, and It goes down when I hit shutdown or install some software. I do not remember the last time I had a hard reset. I have had explorer (not IE, the shell lock horribly, but a quick ctrl-alt-del to bring up the task manager, find explorer, hit end process, new process, type explorer and hit enter and its back up and running again.

  11. For a Good Looking Woman by Your+Average+Joe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You have to have a MCSE or Service Contract.

    --
    Your Average Joe