I am on your side. I've had XP in my computer TWICE and went to 2Kpro -SP5 and I'm still on it. I have an ASUS board, P4 @ 1.8Ghz, 1Gb RAM,          2 - 40Gb drives partitioned into 4 drives, CD R/W and DVD R/W,  Adaware, Spyblaster, AVAST, 5 media players,(convert CD's to MP3). I also fix up P3 units and sell or give them with 2Kpro installed. It is a very stable system.
  I also have 3 e-mail addresses.
  Go for it and enjoy your computer.   AL SMITH
   
  
Peetie Wheatstraw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  Re: Win2000 on new build?

Greetings,

I have been running Win2k sp4 on an old BH6 board with
Celeron Coppermine cpu on my pc at home for years and years.

It's about time to build a new pc.

For reasons I won't go into, I do not wish to license MS
WinXP. I am not a Linux person.

To what extent might it be practical to build a new pc to
run W2k if one is willing to live with older technologies
(pata/IDE hard drives, etc)?

System usage would be pretty much garden-variety: Email,
web browsing, word processing, a little number-crunching,
etc.

Proposed system would be, say, P4 cpu (1.8 - 2.2 ghz) on
a medium-priced board (yet to be identified).

Would hope to run most/all of the following:
2 pata/IDE hard drives
USB 2.0 (for DSL, etc)
W2k sp4
AVG
Spybot
Kerio
Office 2k
IE6

Any/all thoughts on such a proposition would be much
appreciated.

Cheers,
Peetie

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