I want my old computer back, how do I rebuild or buy new xp?

[MisterEd]

Of course you shouldn't have any problems with XP on a 990FX system. AMD's 990FX platform is completely supported with full WindowsXP Support for all onboard devices on all motherboards. It's an extremely slow of a system in actual performance. But it is supported.

I bought my 990FX back in 2011 so no M.2 SSD but at least a 2.5-inch SATA SSD works well with it.

I have a question about you using an SSD with Windows XP. Since it doesn't support TRIM can I assume you have done the following:

• Disabled defrag
• Have a TRIM and SSD optimizer program

BTW, I didn't use my computer with 990FX chipset much anymore because it was so slow compared to my computer with a Ryzen CPU. It has Windows 10 but was slow to boot and was sluggish in response. What really made a difference was replacing the 1TB boot 3.5" SATA HDD with a 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD. It was a lot faster booting as expected but what really shocked me it was also a lot more responsive using the keyboard and mouse at the desktop.

Reading your success if I find time I might try Windows XP on my 990FX chipset system just to see what it can do. I just have to be careful because other drives have Windows 7 and Windows 10 on them. From past experience I have found that Windows XP does not play well with Windows 7 and Windows 10 so I have to be careful it doesn't mess with the drives they are on.

 

[Aswego]

I bought my 990FX back in 2011 so no M.2 SSD but at least a 2.5-inch SATA SSD works well with it.

I have a question about you using an SSD with Windows XP. Since it doesn't support TRIM can I assume you have done the following:

• Disabled defrag
• Have a TRIM and SSD optimizer program

BTW, I didn't use my computer with 990FX chipset much anymore because it was so slow compared to my computer with a Ryzen CPU. It has Windows 10 but was slow to boot and was sluggish in response. What really made a difference was replacing the 1TB boot 3.5" SATA HDD with a 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD. It was a lot faster booting as expected but what really shocked me it was also a lot more responsive using the keyboard and mouse at the desktop.

Reading your success if I find time I might try Windows XP on my 990FX chipset system just to see what it can do. I just have to be careful because other drives have Windows 7 and Windows 10 on them. From past experience I have found that Windows XP does not play well with Windows 7 and Windows 10 so I have to be careful it doesn't mess with the drives they are on.

I have disabled Defrag, well disabled auto Defrag anyway. Not sure if it can be completely disabled.
Not worried about trim.

 

[Kithylin]

I bought my 990FX back in 2011 so no M.2 SSD but at least a 2.5-inch SATA SSD works well with it.

I have a question about you using an SSD with Windows XP. Since it doesn't support TRIM can I assume you have done the following:

• Disabled defrag
• Have a TRIM and SSD optimizer program

BTW, I didn't use my computer with 990FX chipset much anymore because it was so slow compared to my computer with a Ryzen CPU. It has Windows 10 but was slow to boot and was sluggish in response. What really made a difference was replacing the 1TB boot 3.5" SATA HDD with a 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD. It was a lot faster booting as expected but what really shocked me it was also a lot more responsive using the keyboard and mouse at the desktop.

Reading your success if I find time I might try Windows XP on my 990FX chipset system just to see what it can do. I just have to be careful because other drives have Windows 7 and Windows 10 on them. From past experience I have found that Windows XP does not play well with Windows 7 and Windows 10 so I have to be careful it doesn't mess with the drives they are on.

I didn't do any of that. I just bought a random 128GB Samsung SATA SSD off ebay. I installed it in the system, installed XP on it and went to use it. I have been re-using it in multiple WinXP systems for several years now. I've even run Defrag on it a few times (I know everyone says you're not supposed to on SSD's). It's never effected the SSD or it's health. I looked in samsung magician and it says the 128GB drive is still at 89% health with no defects listed. There's nothing special to do to it. I did not use a TRIM or SSD optimizer program either. I've never seen any need to do that. I do have full system images of that system's SSD drive saved to my file server with Macrium Backup however. The 128GB SSD was about $30 on ebay. I'm really not concerned. If it does die I'll just grab another one, write out the image to it, stick it in the system and go back to normal usage.

 

[Hunter2022]

Can still build a new Windows XP PC. Not all is lost. You just need the motherboard and a few components. Search LG1155 motherboard on eBay. That's the latest one to fully support XP.