Sunday, October 28, 2007

Windows XP on a Dectop (AMD PIC)

I bought a Dectop (formally AMD PIC) a few months ago. It makes a very nice small Linux box (though there are a few sound issues with Ubuntu/Debian). I had a little bit of free time this weekend, so I decided to see how well it would work with Windows XP. Installation is fairly straight forward. Boot it off of a USB cdrom or flash drive. Setup detects most of the hardware (except the three things listed below). It runs surprisingly fast and is definitely usable for light browsing and word processing. Now that my curiosity is satisfied, back to Linux :).



Drivers:
Video:http://wwwd.amd.com/AMD/SReleaseF.nsf/weblookup/40ACE6F4AE7D617087256A380062D102?OpenDocument&id=Display-Graphicsv1.04~GX/CS5535~WinXP/XPe
Audio:http://wwwd.amd.com/AMD/SReleaseF.nsf/weblookup/15E7CBD7C2BCE57A872572600061B817?OpenDocument&id=AMDGeode%99LXEPICRDKAudio-WDMv3.00.00~LX/CS5536~WinXP/XPe
Network: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=8&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true