Your Other Option is to get an External Hard Drive and learn how to "Image" your system(s) for backup/recovery purposes.
I can recover back to a fresh install, mostly updated, loaded and running in about 15 minutes...
With the computer doing all the work.
Best Free Drive Imaging Program
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/
I'm not too sure .. (It's a little early yet ) ...
If Windows 7 will need an occasional fresh install to tune it or fix it also.
Alright, this is very bad...
I installed Windows 7 successfully and it runs just as fast as XP, but the graphics card is not recognized. The greatest resolution I can run the machine at is 1024x768, the monitor just says "input signal out of range" if I try to go any higher. Does anyone know of a fix for the Radeon 9200SE card?
Last edited by Pentium3 FTW; 23 Dec 2009 at 21:11.
Installed driver?
there is the solution for you:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...c-53b676692d3c
quite clumsy but seems to work
I'd rather not be using a hacked driver; part of the reason I wanted to move to Windows 7 was because of the increased stability it offered compared to Windows XP. I'll try this and see if it works, but I'm still kinda pissed that the upgrade advisor didn't tell me my graphics card was completely unsupported; all it says is it will not support Aero. Nice trick for Microsoft to increase their sales no doubt.
This is quite true, I'm not normally one to bash Microsoft... however, even if AMD prematurely dropped support for what is still a perfectly fine video card, the Windows 7 upgrade adviser failed to notify me of that. Sure, Aero won't run, but I don't care; even on my T400, I run Vista without Aero. But if it can't run above 1024 x 768 and the upgrade adviser said everything was kosher, then we have a problem.
I tried the graphics card hack, and at first it caused the OS to blue-screen (something which I have not seen since the days of Windows 98), then got it working for a little while, then had it blue-screen again when I tried to run Unreal Tournament 2004. I still need this computer to do some light gaming, so if it crashes in a 5-year-old game that is not too impressive.
I could buy a new video card, but I'd like to have DirectX11 support, and any decent one is over $80. I've already spent $64.99 on the hard drive (which I now consider to be a sunk cost) and $224 on Windows 7. I might just cut my losses, return Windows 7 to the store and have the Pentium 4 run Windows XP, like it was designed to do.
this is the reason i cant have windows 7.
Cuz i have the same G-card as you, and it does not support Aero.
(which btw, are you getting that horrible grey tasbar instead of a clear transparent one?)
When you guys run a fairly dated piece of hardware then it would be unfair to blame anyone - looking up the Win7 Radeon driver support it starts with the Radeon 9500. It's quite inexpensive to just get a newer card and all is well and happy.
Yeah, I have the grey taskbar, but I really don't mind it that much.
Anyways, my friend says he found an old GeForce FX5200 card in his basement. This is not the greatest card in the world but it should allow Windows 7 to operate at a decent resolution. I am not sure about Windows 7 support, but does anyone know if this card at least has Windows Vista support?
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