Well this is my 1st and very old computer about 6 years old already.
Actually i never try it yet because this motherboard is running on XP for 6 years.
I wanna try it but to make it sure i need a good advice of experts here.
Asus site their is no Windows 7 drivers.
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. - Motherboards- ASUS P5VDC-X
Anyone of you guys could help me if will the audio will really be installed on Windows 7 SP1?
Hello,
Firstly, because of the age of the PC, make sure that your system meets the minimum spec:
Windows 7 system requirements - Microsoft Windows
Personally I wouldnt try upgrading it because of its age. I think it would be more stable on Windows XP then Windows 7.
However one of the good things about Windows 7 is that it is very good at automatically installing the drivers. If it doesnt find them then I would try installing the Vista ones - Sometimes they work, sometimes they dont.
Dave
The requirements will pass but i dont know about motherboard if it will support Windows 7.
Intel Pentium D 2.80Ghz
1 gig memory ddr2
512mb VC ddr2
80 gig Hard disk
My advice would be to give it a try and see how it goes. Make sure you do a system backup beforehand so if it doesn't work you can revert it back to XP. I installed Win 7 on a 1Ghz P3 with 512M RAM and it ran OK, not a speed demon but, usable for web, email, word processing, etc...
It's not really that old - several computers dating back to 2001 have been reported to run Windows 7 just fine.
As Dave pointed out, Windows 7 is very good about getting its own drivers for most hardware, and generally you'll just need to install videocard drivers and maybe sound and/or network drivers once Windows is up and running. But in this case, again, the Vista drivers provided by Asus stand a good chance of working fine, or you may actually get newer drivers from the video/sound/network device manufacturer's websites.
I also recommend downloading and running the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor (on your current XP of course) which will tell you about any specific issues you may encounter.
Finally, consider a dualboot with both XP and 7 installed; that way you always have XP as a fallback to boot into. (Plus, this will make migrating your user data and settings very easy.)
Planning a backup strategy, if you haven't already, is another prudent thing to do at this time - the free version of Macrium Reflect is an excellent drive imaging product to do this (it works in both XP and 7).
EDIT: there were a couple posts in the meantime (I was away for lunch lol). You'll be able to run Windows 7 fine with 1GB of RAM but you'll really benefit from an upgrade to 2GB.
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