Vista - will my pc run vista rc1

the machine is a first gen p4
the full specs are pentium 4 1.4 ghz
256mb of rambus mem 20gb eide drive
win xp pro
4 mb s3 pci video card
it is pretty fast with xp but my video card is
what scares me will it run vista without blowing up
the card help please

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...y/capable.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...r/default.mspx

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"zatman" <zatman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> the machine is a first gen p4
> the full specs are pentium 4 1.4 ghz
> 256mb of rambus mem 20gb eide drive
> win xp pro
> 4 mb s3 pci video card
> it is pretty fast with xp but my video card is
> what scares me will it run vista without blowing up
> the card help please

"zatman" <zatman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E183C8FD-56D8-42B0-8CC5-93C676B043D6@microsoft.com...
> the machine is a first gen p4
> the full specs are pentium 4 1.4 ghz
> 256mb of rambus mem 20gb eide drive
> win xp pro
> 4 mb s3 pci video card
> it is pretty fast with xp but my video card is
> what scares me will it run vista without blowing up
> the card help please

This gives the minimum specifications for running Vista. Keep in mind that
the Product Key that you receive when you register for the CPP is for Vista
Ultimate which is a "Windows Vista Premium" edition. So, given that, you
need at least 1GB of RAM, twice as much hard drive space and 124MB more of
video RAM. Other than that, you should be good to go.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...y/capable.mspx

I found your post because I am looking for info about running Vista rc1 with
only 256MB Ram. My install said 512mb was required but after I ran Vista for
a few days, I needed something crazy to do so I pulled 256mb out. I have a
32mb radion 7000 agp card on a amd 1600+. It runs ok with a lot of swaping
but I am looking at shutting down extra services such as indexing and my
theams. I love the new features (including the theam) and find xp quite ugly
after being in Vista. I would like to find what non-required vista services
that I can disable for testing in msconfig. I have 167MB RAM in use in
taskman as I write this with theams and indexing disabled.

Can someone post a list of services I can disable without breaking media
player? I don't want p2p and don't need any extra security features like
defender or firewall. I do want to keep updates running and don't plan to
visit any "dangerous" sites for phishing or porn. I know how to keep a clean
pc but to run this system with 256mb would be nice and should be possible.

"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

>
> "zatman" <zatman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E183C8FD-56D8-42B0-8CC5-93C676B043D6@microsoft.com...
> > the machine is a first gen p4
> > the full specs are pentium 4 1.4 ghz
> > 256mb of rambus mem 20gb eide drive
> > win xp pro
> > 4 mb s3 pci video card
> > it is pretty fast with xp but my video card is
> > what scares me will it run vista without blowing up
> > the card help please
>
> This gives the minimum specifications for running Vista. Keep in mind that
> the Product Key that you receive when you register for the CPP is for Vista
> Ultimate which is a "Windows Vista Premium" edition. So, given that, you
> need at least 1GB of RAM, twice as much hard drive space and 124MB more of
> video RAM. Other than that, you should be good to go.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...y/capable.mspx
>
>
>

"Roy DB" wrote:

> I found your post because I am looking for info about running Vista rc1 with
> only 256MB Ram. My install said 512mb was required but after I ran Vista for
> a few days, I needed something crazy to do so I pulled 256mb out. I have a
> 32mb radion 7000 agp card on a amd 1600+. It runs ok with a lot of swaping
> but I am looking at shutting down extra services such as indexing and my
> theams. I love the new features (including the theam) and find xp quite ugly
> after being in Vista. I would like to find what non-required vista services
> that I can disable for testing in msconfig. I have 167MB RAM in use in
> taskman as I write this with theams and indexing disabled.
>
> Can someone post a list of services I can disable without breaking media
> player? I don't want p2p and don't need any extra security features like
> defender or firewall. I do want to keep updates running and don't plan to
> visit any "dangerous" sites for phishing or porn. I know how to keep a clean
> pc but to run this system with 256mb would be nice and should be possible.
>
> "Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:
>
> >
> > "zatman" <zatman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:E183C8FD-56D8-42B0-8CC5-93C676B043D6@microsoft.com...
> > > the machine is a first gen p4
> > > the full specs are pentium 4 1.4 ghz
> > > 256mb of rambus mem 20gb eide drive
> > > win xp pro
> > > 4 mb s3 pci video card
> > > it is pretty fast with xp but my video card is
> > > what scares me will it run vista without blowing up
> > > the card help please
> >
> > This gives the minimum specifications for running Vista. Keep in mind that
> > the Product Key that you receive when you register for the CPP is for Vista
> > Ultimate which is a "Windows Vista Premium" edition. So, given that, you
> > need at least 1GB of RAM, twice as much hard drive space and 124MB more of
> > video RAM. Other than that, you should be good to go.
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...y/capable.mspx
> >
> > thanks for the input but somebody told me than my
vista areo gui will not run on a 4MB video card
> >