The thing is, the 1GHz HP probably will run XP, but it would require a lot  of
fooling around with 3rd party drivers, since HP states explicitly that ther is 
NO upgrade path beyond Win-Me and there are NO Win2K or XP drivers of 
any kind for this computer on the HP website.  So you are basically on your 
own if you want to run something else.

Now, could I get this to work eventually - probably. Do I want to spend the amount
of time it will likely take, and lose ALL of my installed applications to boot - 
probably not.  So would I try it - only as an act of desperations.  I have done this
before with other machines (not mine, and I was being paid to do it) and it can be
a very non-fun experience.  WIth one machine we were NEVER able to find drivers
that would work with the on-mother-board sound and video hardware, so we had 
to put the whole thing back.  PITA!

RJG
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Olin Lathrop 
  To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. 
  Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 4:13 PM
  Subject: Re: [PIC] MPLAB IDE support will be discontinued on Win 98/ME/NT


  Roy J. Gromlich - PA wrote:
  > Now that's nice.  I have two computers here - one running Win98SE and
  > the other running Win0Me.
  > Neither is capable of running Win-XP, as there are NO DRIVERS
  > available for either one of them to
  > support those OS releases.

  You don't have to run WinXP, Win2000 is good enough.  It's hard to believe
  you have a standard PC that is worth running that can't accept Win2000.


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