Some people are so thick and gullible

Kerplunk · 31 Jul 2006 at 23:24

So the issue here is he cant install XP Home because his system is below spec?

Whys he thick/gullible? :confused:

Its about time he made an effort to find things out before taking the next step.

Thats why theres an IT Department.

reflex · 1 Aug 2006 at 00:39

Don't be horrible to people who up to scratch with PC's :mad:

Fantom · 1 Aug 2006 at 01:02

seen these kinds of threads quite a bit

always seems to end up with people calling other people stupid etc just because they dont know much about computers e.g:

"My mate asked if i had a UBS cable he could borrow, OMG WHAT A NOOB HAHAHAH i just laughed in his face and went back to CS!"

I admit that this case is a little different from that one that sticks in my mind

but give the guy a break, he has probably never had the urge to learn about computers (hes probably good at something that u dont know about)

shifty_uk · 1 Aug 2006 at 01:09

dmpoole said:
It was a Pentium 166 with 32 meg of ram and a 2 gig HD

Never mind half life...would anything run on that badboy? :eek:

fatmas · 1 Aug 2006 at 01:11

Lowest Spec I've successfully installed XP on is a:
PII 400mhz with 256mb SD RAM and 12gb HDD.

Although I know people who have put it on a 266mhz PII with 128mb RAM...

Slow as a sloth though to be honest..
Should this get moved to Hardware?

Van Hellseek · 1 Aug 2006 at 01:11

shifty_uk said:
Never mind half life...would anything run on that badboy?

quake would run great!

pinkacidbootson · 1 Aug 2006 at 01:13

My mate thinks his P4 Northwood 3.0 Ghz is better than an A64 FX-62. He also thinks that he has "Double Density Ram", which somehow physically doubles in size from 512MB to 1GB when it needs to. Then there's his Geforce FX 5200, which is supposedly as good as my 7900GT since they both have 256MB of memory.
Now he's not stupid, but he is the victim of marketing rubbish and people lying to him to sell their product. It took me a long time to explain the truth to him, but he is still skeptical.

fatmas · 1 Aug 2006 at 01:16

Well At least he didn't try and put the Beta2 of Vista on there.. OH DEAR.

Vista + RAM = Bled Dry.

semi-pro waster · 1 Aug 2006 at 02:07

fatmas said:
Lowest Spec I've successfully installed XP on is a:
PII 400mhz with 256mb SD RAM and 12gb HDD.

Although I know people who have put it on a 266mhz PII with 128mb RAM...

Just to make this pointlessly geeky, I've had Windows XP running on a P233mmx with 192mb Ram as a server for about 8 months until my mate decided he wanted to try Linux on the computer(since it was his).

You can run it on even lower specification machines but you need to remove a lot of processes to get any sort of acceptable speed from it.

fatmas · 1 Aug 2006 at 02:16

Yeah. I dare somebody to try installing Systemworks on that kind of spec.
OH DEAR DEATH.

KingDing · 1 Aug 2006 at 02:52

I installed XP Pro on me mums old pc.

Celly 333, 128mb ram and 5gig drive.

It ran half life ok enough to play single player. should have seen jerky freeman go...

G-MAN2004 · 1 Aug 2006 at 03:46

Johanson said:
My mate thinks his P4 Northwood 3.0 Ghz is better than an A64 FX-62. He also thinks that he has "Double Density Ram", which somehow physically doubles in size from 512MB to 1GB when it needs to. Then there's his Geforce FX 5200, which is supposedly as good as my 7900GT since they both have 256MB of memory.
Now he's not stupid, but he is the victim of marketing rubbish and people lying to him to sell their product. It took me a long time to explain the truth to him, but he is still skeptical.

Lol, double density ram

Raikiri · 1 Aug 2006 at 04:02

I installed XP on a laptop with: p2 233mhz, 128mb ram and a whopping 6gb HD... why wouldnt they just upgrade :/ Literally took 15 minutes to boot

MasterMike · 1 Aug 2006 at 06:54

Johanson said:
He also thinks that he has "Double Density Ram", which somehow physically doubles in size from 512MB to 1GB when it needs to.

Heh, did you point out the irony in his use of the word "Density"?

SexyGreyFox · 1 Aug 2006 at 07:01

Kerplunk said:
So the issue here is he cant install XP Home because his system is below spec?

Whys he thick/gullible?

ONCE AGAIN.
I have been working with this particular bloke foir 26 years and this is the most recent 'thick/gullible' incident involving him.
He works with 400 blokes and its a bit like working with Google - you can virtually find on expert on anything, so making a bad choice on patio bricks, trees, cars, mp3 players, carpets and a million other items shouldn't happen.

He is not and idiot because he doesn't know how to install XP or else theres a country full of them.
He is gullible because he listened to an Asian on a phone speaking on behalf of BT.
He is an idiot because he didn't ask one of his workmates around him who all have knowledge of PC's.
He is an idiot because this is at least the 100th time in 26 years we've had a laugh at his expense.

Duke · 1 Aug 2006 at 07:46

GET OVERCLOCKING FFS :mad:

Oracle · 1 Aug 2006 at 07:57

What I'm finding more amusing is this...........

His complete lack of all things social and your first line in the OP....

dmpoole said:
A mate............

Volcs · 1 Aug 2006 at 09:27

dmpoole said:
He is gullible because he listened to an Asian on a phone speaking on behalf of BT.

Ahhh man we've all been there. I once listened to an Asian and all I ended up with was a load of "magic beans".

I miss my cow.

pinkacidbootson · 1 Aug 2006 at 13:21

MasterMike said:
Heh, did you point out the irony in his use of the word "Density"?

He was calling me an idiot aswell! Then he told his dad who "knows about this kind of stuff" and he thought i was an idiot!!
Then i started to explain that for it to double in size it would actually have to add some more ram chips to itself, which is of course impossible.
In his defence he said that he knew it was doubling in size because it "made a beeping sound" when he had lots of programs open at the same time. He also thought he had won the arguement when he dropped this bomb: "Well how do you explain dual layer DVDs then? Ha!" I couldn't believe i actually had to explain the difference between RAM and optical discs.

I wouldn't have minded, but he thought he knew a lot about computers.

lozza23_uk · 1 Aug 2006 at 14:00

dmpoole said:
I forgot to mention that this is a bloke who has still got a single speed video recorder and the only music he knows is Adam & The Ants (and thats a couple of singles).

nothing wrong with a bit of adam ant.