[mtrost422]

first i would like to say hello to everyone and anyone who sees this as i am new but i seem to be having a major problem

okay ill start from the beginning
i had built a computer from scratch out of old used parts
i no they are not the best but they work
most of all the hard drive i had used had vista preinstalled
i installed vista on it and every thing was working perfect
no problems with old parts on vista wierd no??
amd athlon 2000+
1gb ram
80gb hdd
okay so after about a month of vista i didnt like it anymore the special features were more annoying than useful and not worth the allocated ram use so i installed a copy of xp
it is a good copy used it many time worked every time
and my big problem is that when i installed xp from the beginning i can use it to browse the web email etc but nothing that uses any kind of graphics even moving windows lags
all updates except sp3
all of this i was able to do with vista
i know windows xp inside and out and i cant figure this out
also im not sure but i dont think it is graphics card related

thank you

sorry for the super long post

[akaHothead]

Hello.
1 This copy of XP that you have used many times. Is it retail or OEM?
2 Did you do a clean format of the hard drive to get rid of Vista before installing XP?
3 Have you checked Device Manager for missing drivers?

[mtrost422]

ok
1 oem but have proved worthy
2 yes vista 100% gone
3 no all drivers accounted for

[akaHothead]

Would like to know more about this OEM disk that is able to be used on multiple machines.
Sounds like bootleg copy to me.

[mtrost422]

it is my own "bootleg" if you will i had an original modded i wont get into it it is not allowed on these forums but yes i have the cd key that came from the cd itself and a "something" that lets it not check hardware
but has never turned me wrong before