Oldest "Dinosaur" Running Win7

[The Cool Guy]

I think hackerman gets the gold medal!

Yup..........
Countdown up till 3 more days........

 

[Firestrider]

hi !

W7 runs on a P2 with 266MHz CPU, 96MB RAM & 4Mb graphic card !

i have done 3 tests: 2 successfull...
1. 128 MB RAM
2. 96 MB ram

take a look at the screenshots...

on my third test with 64 MB i got some errormessages about "insufficient memory", then it rebooted...

i also have a P1 with 166Mhz CPU & 1MB Graphic card, without the powersupply-unit, as i have used it for some test on another PC.

if i can find the Powersupply-unit, i´m going to test the P1 tomorrow...

Can you post the full WEI scores of your system?

I saw your contribution here: UX Evangelist: Windows 7 on a Dinosaur!

 

[tonyk]

im going to join in.

 

[kizo2703]

Speaking of dinosaur : PIII ,512 MB SDRAM , 30 GB WD hdd ,build is RC localized on croatian. I only put in ATI 2400 PRO AGP to have Aero. My son says Seven works better than XP on it.
I would plug in another 512 of RAM ,but mbo is ASUS TUSL2-C and 512 is max on it.
Everything works fine ,there was no BSODs ,you can even play on it ,of course on low resolutions!

Edit: yeap ,hackerman 's the man!

 

[verticalgrain]

So Hackerman, any luck with the PI yet?

 

[vindassius]

damn it i've got an amd duron 800 with a mx440 64mb video 20gb idd hdd dvdrom and 512mb of ram - might give it a go

 

[verticalgrain]

That should run fine Vindassius - as I mentioned in another thread I installed on a Pentium III 700mhz with 512mb ram the other night and it seems to run well. Can't have too many programs open at the same time, but I can live with that.

 

[hybridfan]

I still can't believe Windows 7 can run on just 96mb ram, must take ages to get anything done lol

I have a old 486 may give it a try but doubt it will work at all.

 

[verticalgrain]

DEFINITELY try the 486 - can you imagine if it worked?

I heard something about a netbook version of 7 being put together. I wonder if that would run even better on old machines.

 

[DocBrown]

My latest TechNet RTM version on " Old Computers "


http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/1657-windows-7-old-computers-9.html



" Doc "

 

[bummpr]

IBM Thinkpad T22 - 7 yrs old (Jan, 2002)
Intel Pentium IIIE - 900MHz
L1Cache - 32KB
L2Cache - 256KB
Just upgraded to 512mb RAM
20GB Hard drive
Video - S3 Savage/IX 1014 with 36MB memory (BIOS dtd 8/24/2001)

Win 7 runs better than even a performance version of XP.

 

[verticalgrain]

I never did post my specs in this thread:

No-name box from 1998 (had the original windows 98 on it a week ago)
Intel Pentium III 700mhz
512mb RAM
40GB Hard Drive

Win 7 runs at least as well as XP if not better. Aero works awesome.

 

[DocBrown]

System specs

 

[zigzag3143]

I never did post my specs in this thread:

No-name box from 1998 (had the original windows 98 on it a week ago)
Intel Pentium III 700mhz
512mb RAM
40GB Hard Drive

Win 7 runs at least as well as XP if not better. Aero works awesome.

Hey VGD

If you put them in the system specs (lower left corner) you will not get asked every time, and we will be able to help you faster

Ken

 

[verticalgrain]

Yeah I should - but I've got so many computers kicking around I don't know which one to put in there! I've also got an EEE pc (4G model) running windows 7, and I'm trying to install it on my macbook pro using bootcamp, and I just dug out a PII 333 mhz which I might try installing it on.

 

[venuspcs]

WTF

I once installed Windows 95 on a 286 with 4 mb ram and a 4 mb hard drive.

Had to drivespace and doublespace the drive, hack in a modified emm386.sys memory manager and edit default colors to be 16 color compatible but I got it to work.....

I'd be willing to bet the first killer computer I ever built could run it, but I don't have it any more....it was a Cyrix PR233+ OC'ed to 768mhz with custom built heat sink and quad fans, had a 16mb pci video card, dual 20 gb hdd's on a pci raid card stripped as one 40 gb hdd. Last OS I installed on that puter before it finally fried was XP (original beta release).

 

[gamepro127]

Ok,

Lets Find out who has the worst pc on this forum!!

I will Start

CPU: P4 2.4ghz
RAM: 1gb DDR 400
HDD: 80GB Seagate Barracuda, 120GB WD Caviar
Video Card: Nvidia 7600GT AGP 4x with burn marks from OCing
Mobo: VIA doesn't even have a serial number or anything

Beat That!

533mhz Celeron, 256MB of RAM, 8MB Video RAM, 13GB Hard Drive, Was running Windows 98.
I had to do a "Hack" so it would install on 256MB of RAM.
One word: SLOW

Now I have Windows XP Performance edition on it. Works fast!

 

[Element7]

Well mine is pretty prehistoric lol.

Nvidia Geforce FX5500 256mb
AMD sempron 2800+ 2.0Ghz
512mb DDR400 PC3200
120gb hard drive

 

[czahn2001]

my pentium 3 ran 7 awesome

I had the opposite effect. on my older pc I have a pentium 3 processor 660 mhz porcessor 512 megs ram sd ram 133, with a nvidia gforce 440 mx with tv out capability. it ran it flawlessly no problems. it ran faster then it did on xp. but i didn't have time to puz with it. so I had to uninstall it. I put oin ubuntu 9.04. and it runs good with that also. anyways a pentium 3 can run windows 7 pretty fast.

of course this used to be a business pc. it ran originally on nt, then I put on 200, and then I put on Xp and then now I am running ubuntu. but it does run on windows 7 pretty fast.

 

[The Cool Guy]

533mhz Celeron, 256MB of RAM, 8MB Video RAM, 13GB Hard Drive, Was running Windows 98.
I had to do a "Hack" so it would install on 256MB of RAM.
One word: SLOW

Now I have Windows XP Performance edition on it. Works fast!

I think we have a winner...........