Windows 7 on OLD computers

[gforce23]

I have Win7 RTM running like a charm on a 7 year old system with these specs:
Athlon XP 2400+, ASUS A7N266-VM (nforce 1st gen), 64MB Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro, 640MB RAM

I even downgraded the processor to a Duron 1.2Ghz, removed the AGP card and made it run on the on-board Geforce2 MX and it still worked, although Aero took a hit.

Win7 actually runs better than XP ever did on my 5 year old Thinkpad T42 - Pentium-M 1.8Ghz, 32MB Mobility Radeon 9000 & 1GB RAM

 

[DocBrown]

Nice work gforce23

Welcome to the " Dinosaurs Club ! "

 

[Buddy Kidd]

Has anyone had any luck installing Windows 7 on a Toshiba Satellite M45 series?

 

[gforce23]

Nice work gforce23

Welcome to the " Dinosaurs Club ! "

LOL not yet. Next week, I'm rebuilding a stone age PC (Pentium3 733, 256MB SD RAM, ATrend ATC7401 (Intel 810)) from parts that were strewn around the attic. My target's to get Win7 up and running on that baby.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
I think 256KB Ram is probably too small to get W7 up and running on - AFAIK - unless its the "Starter edition" -- you can download the starter edition from Technet if you are a suscriber.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[kensiko]

With 256KB of RAM you won't go that far

 

[DocBrown]

I still think hackerman1 hold the record back in June 2009

He beat me :shock:

http://www.sevenforums.com/performa...ldest-dinosaur-running-win7-5.html#post131577

" Doc "

 

[gregrocker]

528 mb ram seems to be the cut off

Been running betas and now RC on 528mb HP 510 1.2ghz business laptop and Gateway 700S Pentium 4. Both run fine with Avast/Defender for web surfing, light multi tasking, video playing, etc. So our experience for almost a year with these two oldies is that 528 is almost definitely the RAM cutoff for Win7 .

Spent hours last winter vliting 7 to see if it could yield performance gains and there were none, since the magic of Win7 is that services are already set to triggers, plus these low resource machines will not run aero (or try) to begin with. Even running Basic vs. Ultimate isn't really necessary since Ultimate will default to Basic on such a machine. This adaptability has really impressed me that Win7 is a winner all the way down the product line, so completely adaptable that old machines used as doorstops during VISTA are now useable again running win7 Ultimate.

Just another reason why this is the greatest invention since the computer.

 

[Mercurial]

I still think hackerman1 hold the record back in June 2009

He beat me :shock:

http://www.sevenforums.com/performa...ldest-dinosaur-running-win7-5.html#post131577

" Doc "

and I thought my 2.0ghz celeron 512mb and 32mb builtin graphics would win ;(!

 

[gforce23]

Hi there
I think 256KB Ram is probably too small to get W7 up and running on - AFAIK - unless its the "Starter edition" -- you can download the starter edition from Technet if you are a suscriber.

Cheers
jimbo

If you're talking about the installation requirements, it's quite easy to bypass MSFT's system check.
Someone's installed Win7 on a Pentium-II Mobile 266Mhz and 64MB RAM as seen here:
06072009424.jpg - ImageHost.org

If that guy could do it, so can I.

 

[msr]

No advice for me? I'll have to go back to using XP I guess...

 

[bobtran]

Hello everyone!

I have a Dell D600 and I installed win7 on it. It works fine and fast, except for the internet. I have mobile internet, using a Huawei E870 express card (with PCMCIA adapter). I have tried updating drivers and it does recognise the data card but it will not connect to the internet. In Device Manager, the PCI Modem comes up with an exclamation mark, but update driver will give me no result.
Anyone have any ideas?
In plain English please, I'm no whizz.

Contact the manufacturer of the Huawei card (Or their in country rep) for customer support. This does not appear to be a Windows issue (Did this same card work under Vista? if yes x32 or x64? Home Premium, Business, Ultimate?). Have you considered getting an updated and supported card for your Windows machine. If this is a supported card then the manufacturer will support it on Windows 7. Some old hardware is just not supported on Vista or Windows 7 and WILL need to be replaced to move forward. This was the biggest non-adoption issue for people thinking about Vista. If it doesn't work with Vista it probably won't work with Windows 7.

I don't think people are deliberately blowing you off but again....this does not appear to be a Windows 7 issue specifically.

By the way, it is very difficult to support you if you don't fill out your "System Specs" so that we can see the platform you are attempting to work on (Yes, you said Dell D600 but have you changed anything in it. Most people don't go to dell to look up your specs just to help you as this is your responsibility. Have you talked to Dell by the way?). I personally have Windows 7 working on a Dell C600 with a dell broadcom wireless card, I unfortunately don't use the phone (Mobile internet) providers for my internet access.

 

[DocBrown]

No advice for me? I'll have to go back to using XP I guess...

Did you check the Dell page

Drivers & Downloads=

Did you try installing drivers in XP compatibility mode ?

 

[gregrocker]

Hello everyone!

I have a Dell D600 and I installed win7 on it. It works fine and fast, except for the internet. I have mobile internet, using a Huawei E870 express card (with PCMCIA adapter). I have tried updating drivers and it does recognise the data card but it will not connect to the internet. In Device Manager, the PCI Modem comes up with an exclamation mark, but update driver will give me no result.
Anyone have any ideas?
In plain English please, I'm no whizz.

How I would approach this problem is to Google the card so thoroughly that I know for certain what drivers are available, try them all in each compatibility mode. Simultaneously I would check the firmware on my router to make sure it is up to date, or if there is 3rd party firmware which might work.

After I have exhausted options for my card and router, I would then look for cards that are compatible and try them. If you have a USB adapter around you can also try that to see if it connects.

Google holds most all human knowledge - you just need to know how to ask the question. This is how novices become tech savvy.

 

[coppertrail]

I installed on an older Dimension 8400, P4 3.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, and a NVIDIA 7600GT graphics adapter. It's running pretty well, glad I decided to upgrade the graphics adapter about 3.5 years ago

 

[profesorce]

Hello everyone!

I have a Dell latitude D600 and I intend to install Windows 7 on it.
My system has 512 ram, 40gb hdd and ati radeon 9000 with 32mb. All i can do is to add 1gb ram, so it will be 1,5gb ram.
So I would like to know will this system run windows 7.
Please help me with some advise what should I do, bying ram or ......

 

[kensiko]

Buy ram, it's cheap.

 

[Snufffed]

12 pages, 117 posts and
WHY DO YOU NOT START YOUR OWN THREAD.
This is rude - I'm sure you would not like someone to take your thread, and turn it into "BUY more memory"

WHY TRY AND BUMP THE OTHER PERSONS.

ALSO POST SO SPECS IN THE SPEC AREA.

 

[Darryl Licht]

Lets get back on track...

For sh*ts & giggles I decided to try loading Win7 Pro on my 10 year old former server... A PIII 800MHz CPU & 512 MB RAM! It's was relegated to a shelf in my garage and became a spider dwelling! LOL! :roflmao:

Its performing better than XP was on same machine! Faster boots, shut downs, web... I AM AMAZED! Good job MS! Hell, thanks to a video card that died 2 years ago and a replacement Nvidia FX-5200; this thing even runs aero! Only issue is OLD SB Live... no supported drivers!

Also, Ive tried running Windows System Rating, but it crashed both times after about 15 minutes... however I suspect that the Windows update download may be causing this... I will update later!

BTW: Here's proof!

 

[DocBrown]

Darryl Licht,

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We have No Meetings or Badges, but we sure surprise users

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