WinXP 64-bit Stability

Josh-Josh- Royal Oak, MI
edited January 2005 in Science & Tech
Yesterday I ordered an AMD 64 3000+ and Chaintech VNF3-250 mobo off of Newegg, and I've began to ponder wether to download and install WinXP 64 or not. Is it stable? And are there any known issues with it, and the two products I've listed? I'm just looking for some insight before I attempt to upgrade my computer. I'd like to upgrade it, rather then screw it up with another faulty windows product :) Thanks for any help that you guys can provide me. I'm new to learning the 64-bit technology, I'm quite the n00b. :(

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  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited December 2004
    -bump-

    I'd like to know too. I'm going 64-Bit hardware-wise by New Years. :)
  • tyrs4utyrs4u Palm Desert CA
    edited December 2004
    Anyone know if they have an official release for WinXP Pro 64?
  • tmh88tmh88 Pittsburgh / Athens, OH
    edited December 2004
    I had the windows xp professional x64 1 year trial version running on my computer. If I were you I woulnd't download it, because alot of my drivers werent compatible with it, like my video card's drivers and utilities(nvidia geforce fx 5700 le). My wireless pci card wasnt compatible with it either, so at that point I just uninstalled it, and put regular xp professional. It was alot faster, everything about it was faster. But until the official version comes out that will be compatable with all 32 bit applications, I'm not using the 64 windows again.
  • tyrs4utyrs4u Palm Desert CA
    edited December 2004
    Agreed that there's a lot of Driver issues. But I was able to find all of mine. & I found sites that had tweaked the 32bit to work on 64. So i never had any "problems". The only big one I ran into was that some of my games won't work, but that's why i use the WinXP Pro 32 for that... & just to mess around on the net & to be secure I use my SuSe 9.1....
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    I have it installed but I rarely use it. The driver situation is pretty pathetic, though I managed to find drivers for most of my hardware. Creative has a pre-release driver for my Audigy2 that will generate sound, but there seems to be a 3-way going with my motherboard drivers, my network drivers, and the Creative drivers that makes it screech anytime there's network traffic. Everything about the OS seems immature which makes sense seeing how it's a beta.

    It's pretty stable considering. Most problems I had were from crashing programs. If you can locate encoding software linked for XP-64, it's really fast.

    -drasnor :fold:
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