Once in a while, I go to this certain parking lot in my neighborhood to look for discarded computers and parts.
Recently, I found a Compaq 8000Z. It came with an AthlonXP 1900+ CPU. The motherboard supports DDR Memory, and so on.
One of my friends is still using an old computer, Abit BP6 motherboard, 300Mhz dual processor, Windows 2000, you get the idea.
I thought it would be a good idea for him to start using this new computer, but he wanted to install Windows 2000 on this Compaq 8000Z.
The installation process did not go well at first, the computer gave me a blue screen error, "kmode-exception_not_handled".
I had a hunch that disabling APIC in the BIOS would fix the problem, and it did.
I then tried installing Windows XP on this computer with APIC enabled in the BIOS and there were no blue screens.
I guess Compaq wasn't kidding when they put a sticker on the case that says "Designed for Windows XP".
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