where can i buy a desktop with XP ?

pennymakespounds

about to give up on my dell inspiron 530 .. which too often when switched on .. fans whir away but computer doesn't start up ....

so considering getting new machine .. guess i only need the tower ... but where can i get with XP home now ?

Prefer to stay with dell but will consider others .

Don't need anything mega ... use is excel spreadsheets and Word .... my i-tunes .. and lots of internet .

grateful for advise / ideas .

thanks .

ormus

has dell stopped doing xp now?
they were offering it as an alternative recently.

Donnie

Do you have four diagnostic lights on the back of your PC?

Conor_3

Just get one with Vista and get used to it. Doesn't take that long. Most of the rubbish spouted about Vista is either done by people who have never used it and are just regurgitating what others have said or refers to its early days.

pennymakespounds

donnie ... no .

can't even find a "reset" button .

pennymakespounds

ormus ... i can't find any on dell website .. hence why i'm asking advice here .

isofa

Ring Dell up and ask, they can normally still supply.

exup

you may be able to get an OEM copy ox XP home or pro from ebuyer or cclonline . . which just means you install it yourself and go to the system builder for support rather than microsoft. which if you use the OEM copy yourself it classes you as the system builder.

but Vista home premium is pretty much OK too. The only conflicts myself and friends have come across is with games such as Call of Duty, Battlefield 2 etc - where the PC is used heavily and patches/ graphics card patches etc can conflict and it being cpu hungry too.

but for just basic tasks like excel it should be OK

andrew8018

Hi there

Dell do still do XP but they don't advertise the fact and you'll have to buy a 'business model' desktop so the actual base wont look that nice (Black and quite chunky).

I've just bought a Vostro 200 with the following spec:

Pentium Dual Core Processor 2.00 GHz, 1MB cache
2048MB Ram
250 Gb HDD
17 inch Monitor
Mouse
Keyboard
Speakers
Wireless adapter
XP professional

All cost £394.80 which I thought was good. XP is far more user friendly IMO. I have a Dell laptop running vista which looks nice but I just don't like it's functionality and seems to be generally moe unreliable.

As I said, they don't advertise this but just give them a ring and they'll build you a computer to the spec you require......

DCFC79

Id look at if you could fix your current one first rather than spending a couple of hundred on a new pc when it might not cost that to fix your current 1

Debt_Free_Chick

pennymakespounds wrote: »

donnie ... no .

can't even find a "reset" button .

There are definitely four green LED lights on the back of the tower. They might not all be lit, but they're there

I have a Dell Dimension 8100 which is about 10 years old and still going strong - as it works, all four LEDs are glowing bright green. mine are located between the keyboard/mouse ports and the USB ports. Look at the back of the tower.

These are important as, if they're not all lit, those that are can help you to diagnose the problem.

And remember, that you have Lifetime Support from Dell. It's not "on demand" but if you have a problem, you contact them and they'll (eventually) diagnose it for you.

Have you logged on to Dell Support with the Express Code for your PC and run the diagnostics and/or enlisted support? That really should be your first port of call.

As I mentioned earlier, I have a "crappy" old Dell Dimension which is still going strong and doing all I want, so don't give up just yet. Do you have enough memory?