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5 ½ hours to install?!? Ugghh..those were the days when I used to have patience for that!@ ClippyBeer:- Get this. In original specs (Celly & 128 MB RAM), the 1100 took around 5 ½ hours to install SP3....and I don't think she dropped much below 65c the whole time (perilously close to Tcase_Max for that chip). She managed it, though.....eventually!
By the way, XP actually does run on first-generation Pentium processors. I can confirm this firsthand, having tested it on my old IBM Thinkpad 380ED with 48MB of RAM (I had to use some 'tricks' to bypass the 64MB minimum), a 166MHz Pentium MMX, and a 2GB HDD (just barely enough space, but XP got on successfully).
I hope that hard drive or CD had bad sectors, otherwise that's... concerning!! Hopefully he had other things to do in the meantime.5 ½ hours to install?!? Ugghh..those were the days when I used to have patience for that!