Windows 7 on OLD computers

My P4 still kicking strong, no doubt. I have another P4 1.5 GHz non-hyperthreading running Windows 7 with current uptime like 14 days or so.

I'm running win 7 pro on Dell D410 laptop. WEI is 1.0 but it runs fine.

Darryl Licht said:

chev65 said:

I just installed Win 7 Ultimate on my old P4 3.0 HT pentium board with 1GB memory and a 160GB harddrive. I built this machine 8 years ago.

It's like having a new lease on life for my old P4 machine.

I did have to clear the cmos twice with the jumper in order to get Windows 7 to install to my old P4 machine. Everything was going very slowly for some reason. After I cleared the cmos the installation went flawlessly.

This seems to be a recurring problem when ever I install Windows 7 on a machine that once had XP or Vista on it. The same thing has happend on 4 completely different machines so far, on both notebook's and pc's using different media.
It only seems to be a problem on the very first installation.

I'll post my WEI for this old P4 machine later.

I havent had to do that on an machine! Hmmmm only thing I did was check to see if BIOS was latest version and it was in all but one case!

This is the fourth machine that would not install Win 7 unless I cleared the cmos. And today I was getting stuck at expanding files on my old Dell machine which is a very common problem when I googled it.

I used a different CD and it magically installed. The very same CD worked on another machine.

Whats strange is that all machines were completely different and all used different CD's to install with. The good thing is that everything works flawlessly now that Win 7 is installed

I am running on a 5 year old Thinkpad - Lots of help is available at Windows 7 Launch - lenovo community for IBM and lenovo machines.

Darryl Licht said:

Sammy:

From your specs looks like you might want to throw a lil RAM in the old gal and keep her around a while longer!

Are you running Aero?

Whats your WEI? <--- Please post!

I'm afraid it'll only take 2X512MB of memory, so I'm already maxxed out. Yes, I'm running Aero - in fact, that was one of the attractions of Win7; it just looks so much better than XP. I picked up the Radeon 9600XT card on eBay for £18 ($30) just for that purpose. And I'd love to post the WEI, but it runs through its routine and finally tells me that there was a problem and it couldn't complete. I don't know what the culprit is, but I suspect the hard drive.

The WEI is, in fact, the only glitch I've had with this installation.

What's that gadget you're using torrentg, I have a similar but it doesn't give the uptime :P.

It's mCPU Meter. It shows output by multicores/threads too. This screenshot I had it on there is only a P4 single core, single thread.

Still up!