AMD Athlon 2800 and 1gb ram enough to run vista?

hi thanks for all your help, just one more thing on my other pc am fixing at, i had xp home edition on it bt i updated to xp pro thru disc bt when i start up pc i can pick home edition or xp pro, how do i delete home edition? wb thanks

 

You'll have to wait for others to confirm what i say but from where i'm sitting you'll loose the ability to boot to prof if you delete home,the only way i can think of perhaps being successfull (& it's a really long shot) is using partition magic from inside prof & deleting home then use the slider to bring xp homes partition space into prof's,the problem here is these changes require a reboot to take affect but since you've deleted home the boot record will be destroyed,the only way you may recover it is by using the prof disk to rewrite it when using the repair console,in the long run you'd be better off just doing a destructive reformat & start from scratch unless you want to have a play & see what happens..lol..

EDIT: It would'nt be an issue if prof was installed before home was

 

Whenever I reinstall windows, I wipe the disc clean first with a reformat (yeah yeah, it's not a true wipe, but it suffices) and then stick whatever OS I like on it. Downside of this is all the data goes, so you need to back everything up...

 

hi thanks got it all sorted, just deleted partitions on drive and installed new windows on a new partition, but still have one problem, when iam in internet explorer when i scroll down webpages it not going down smoothly its flashing up n pieces, what would be wrong there? wb thanks

 

No graphics driver installed.

 

I agree with the above post. If you go to Control Panel -> System -> Hardware tab -> Device Manager (or hold Windows Key + Pause Break at the same time to bring up System Properties) look under "Display" and see if it's the Microsoft SMS Display driver that's installed by default.

If so, you need the specific driver for your card, which could be onboard or a seperate graphics card depending on your setup.

Also, a trip to Windows Update, and doing a custom search (rather than express) may find a suitable driver (though sometimes, not the latest version.)