I have an older PC that I was wondering if I did a video card upgrade on it, would it support Win 7. The proc is a 32 bit Semperon 2.0 gig, the computer has 2 gigs of ddr ram and an IDE 160 gig HD. There is an optical drive too.
The video card slot is AGP. I was wondering if a Geforce 6200, 512mb 64 bit agp 8x card would run Aero on Windows 7 Ultimate.
Thanks for your time.
Hello windowsfree.
Have a look at the link below to run the Windows 7 upgrade advisor.
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor
Be sure to run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor first.
That will tell you what you need to know.
Thanks for the reply, I have it running in a virtual machine on that computer and it runs ok. I figure if I can't run Aero, there is no point in having Win 7. I have a bunch of issues printing to a network printer and such....but I don't need to go into that now or in this forum. I already posted elsewhere. Thanks again.
See this tutorial: https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...hics-card.html
No guarantees it will work, but you can decide if it's worth the gamble to you.
It's surprising how well some of these old dinosaurs are like newborn when powered by Win7. Take that prehistoric rig Doc's link points to; Maybe two of them still alive, one owned and used by Doc and the other in Smithsonian Institute, as a showpiece presenting how cavemen met their ladies in online dating sites using computers build with tools they had: a stone hammer, a couple of bear bones and heavy cursing.
Seriously, it's refreshing and fun to see how many of you fellow members have kicked new life to old computers.
Kari
after rerunning the assessment my score went to 1.0 because of the graphics. Hmmm
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