Windows XP finally dead?

[x BlueRobot]

Microsoft Support for Windows XP may have been extended to 2014, but it seems to have died on the forums perspective.

 

[Alejandro85]

246 users MAX?????? Doesn't seems to be a very representative forum
Support, ultimately, doesn't matters at all for the user. Once the program is installed, it will work the very same way "forever", until you replace with something else.
XP is far from being dead.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

I agree with Aljandro Blue the government department I work for still uses it probably for obvious reasons but I reckon as long as one is careful as you are with any other OS yuo should be right.

I have a couple of machines with XP still on them and even a spare XP install disk - could become a collectors items eh? LOL!! I find them real helpful when fixing and there will always be a die hard core of users.

My concern is the way that Windows is is going now.

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

I still love my OLD Windows XP SP3, all of the offered updates..as soon as I can have someone look to see why the monitor
won't connect ( message on the monitor screen " No Signal " ) or something similar. . I will still use it.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

I still love my OLD Windows XP SP3, all of the offered updates..as soon as I can have someone look to see why the monitor
won't connect ( message on the monitor screen " No Signal " ) or something similar. . I will still use it.

Probably means your video on the motherboard is out Lady Pink maybe a cheap GPU might fix the problem if your mobo has a slot that will take one you can get for it.

 

[King Arthur]

I visited UC Davis recently and they still have machines running Windows 2000, mixed in with others running Windows XP. The 2000 and XP machines, from what I could tell, are being used to manage and oversee some very serious and heavy-duty equipment.

Moral is: Support from MS means nothing to the longevity of an OS that simply works, and XP most certainly "simply works".

 

[jimbo45]

246 users MAX?????? Doesn't seems to be a very representative forum
Support, ultimately, doesn't matters at all for the user. Once the program is installed, it will work the very same way "forever", until you replace with something else.
XP is far from being dead.

Hi there
some people are still using THESE versions of Windows - but probably never log on to any Forum.

(Windows 98 and Windows 3.11)

Cheers
jimbo

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

I still love my OLD Windows XP SP3, all of the offered updates..as soon as I can have someone look to see why the monitor
won't connect ( message on the monitor screen " No Signal " ) or something similar. . I will still use it.

Probably means your video on the motherboard is out Lady Pink maybe a cheap GPU might fix the problem if your mobo has a slot that will take one you can get for it.

ICit2 .....Hi thanks for your reply and suggestions.. I hope I won't sound tolly lost .. please tell me what is GPU ? I know it must be easy for you all who understand .

I actually did follow a couple of guys here last year and installed 2 slots of ram to my old XP, had crucial to run a scan , then followed up with the install myself.( using W7F assistance ), had to try 2 times then it just clicked and worked great.

 

[x BlueRobot]

I still love my OLD Windows XP SP3, all of the offered updates..as soon as I can have someone look to see why the monitor
won't connect ( message on the monitor screen " No Signal " ) or something similar. . I will still use it.

Probably means your video on the motherboard is out Lady Pink maybe a cheap GPU might fix the problem if your mobo has a slot that will take one you can get for it.

ICit2 .....Hi thanks for your reply and suggestions.. I hope I won't sound tolly lost .. please tell me what is GPU ? I know it must be easy for you all who understand .

GPU means Graphics Processing Unit, it's basically just means your graphics/video card.

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Probably means your video on the motherboard is out Lady Pink maybe a cheap GPU might fix the problem if your mobo has a slot that will take one you can get for it.

ICit2 .....Hi thanks for your reply and suggestions.. I hope I won't sound tolly lost .. please tell me what is GPU ? I know it must be easy for you all who understand .

GPU means Graphics Processing Unit, it's basically just means your graphics/video card.

BlueRobot hi.... Thank you.. since I can't see anything on the XP.. no screen.. then I better get someone who knows how to go looking about this pc.. or would it be in the old.. specs sheet or some visual info. about the pc. ?

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Lady Pink sorry late reply but you can see nothing at all? not even that no signal now?

Could be something real simple too like just unplugging the cable and plugging it back in again or even just a new cable.

Whats is the model of the XP machine??

 

[nilank]

95 guests?! That's too much!

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Lady Pink sorry late reply but you can see nothing at all? not even that no signal now?

Could be something real simple too like just unplugging the cable and plugging it back in again or even just a new cable.

Whats is the model of the XP machine??

ICite...All I ever see on the monitor.. when I reboot is a small pop-up type message" no signal or no connection".. I don't remember exactly .
Yes the monitor is plugged in, turned on.
I'll try your comments about , let you know if there is a change.

MODEL #
( GM ) MFAT X PNT YKT

Below info. from Crucial website , when I was getting ready to install more memory , which I did, came with 512MB, I doubled it.(Memory DDR - Pc 2700 )
1,000 GB ( this showed after the new installed memory stix )

Mfg. date 4-14-03
GATEWAY MEDIA CENTER
YORKTOWN SYSTEM ID # 4 CAD 504831D926C3

ICit2 , Thank you very much for your reply

I hope some of this is helpful to you, if you need more info. feel free to ask.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hum not much coming up with that Lady Pink now when you put the extra RAM in did you happen to notice what motherboard was in if I am guessing it probably is an Intel of some sort - that number or ID would help things.

See pics

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Hello.. I will try to get the above info.. for you this weekend.
Thanks for your help..
Happy weekend to you.

Here is what I see on the case outside front ...
Intel Inside.....IntelPentium 4
I will look inside for you also.

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

I didn't get inside the desktop.. however I do have a full scan of it , I did with Belrac..
showing everything about it....if that would be of help to you.
Thanks again for your replies.

 

[Joan Archer]

That will prove very useful LPt1, Belarc does a good job of identifying the make up of a computer and I'm sure ICit2lol will be able to help you with the information from that.

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

That will prove very useful LPt1, Belarc does a good job of identifying the make up of a computer and I'm sure ICit2lol will be able to help you with the information from that.

Joan.... Thank you for this very encouraging reply. I sure love that old Windows XP, even with this new laptop.. I still like XP the best. I hope I can get it working again.

 

[Britton30]

Georgia in the meantime can you try the XP monitor on another PC to see if it is in working order?

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Gary hi... I've purchased a NEW HP 20" LED monitor/ cable... before asking for any help, trying to check to make sure the old monitor was really dead.. the NEW monitor with a new monitor cable will NOT work ,I get a small message on the screen saying "no signal"
I did try the Old monitor with the new cable as well.. it refuses to connect .
I sure hope I can get the XP working again.. it's my favorite , even tho I have this new laptop
( Windows 8 )
Thank you for replying , and your suggestion, I'm willing to try almost anything to get things working .