Windows 7 on ps3

[Wiisper]

Does anyone know if its possible to install windows on my ps3?
I know i can install ubuntu but is it possible with windows to, here's a link which explains how to install ubuntu on ps3 How-To: Install Ubuntu On Your PS3
if i just replace the ubuntu disk with my windows disk will it still work?

 

[NosferatuX]

I've reviewed the installation steps and it seems pretty simple.

If you're the adventurous type, I'd say give it a spin. Just follow the steps of backing up everything on your PS3 as the tutorial says so if something goes wrong, you can have back up again in no time.

Please do let us know how your experiment goes. I'm sure a lot will also be curious to know what happened

 

[z3r010]

It wont work, the PS3 requires a PPC distro.

 

[Wiisper]

hmm lame, I didn't understand a word of that wiki site, but if you say it won't work i guess i'm not gonna try it.

 

[limneos]

In other words, PS3 uses a different CPU architecture, RISC , unlike our PCs which use X86 architecture. Windows is built for x86 - 64x architectures so it won't work on PS3 or any PPC...Ubuntu and other linux distros just happen to have PPC versions, that's why you can only install those.

 

[Wiisper]

that makes more sence to me.

 

[linuzo]

Well Technically you CAN get it to run but it's not going to be Native. See the PS3 does support linux. So if you were to install Linux and then install virtualbox then you would be able to install Windows 7 as a VM on the PS3. However this is kind of cheating but it you wanted to see Windows 7 on PS3 it could be possible. However now that I think of it. The PS3 only has 512 MB of ram so I doubt it would be able to VM. Sorry.. LoL

 

[darkassain]

your right linuzo
but its actually less
than 512 counting the hipervisor and the GPU mem.....
it cant be native but it can be emulated....
but how much memory you have its not advised and might be worse than a 5 year old system....

 

[Lordbob75]

Doesn't the PS3 run Linux?

~Lordbob

 

[darkassain]

Doesn't the PS3 run Linux?

~Lordbob

Yes it does as Wiisper shows it has been confirmed that two OS's can be installed in the PS3
YDL (Yellow Dog Linux) and Ubuntu...

as you can read the Cell (CPU) archictecture is based on PPC (you know like the old class Mac OS machines....)

Windows at one did actually support PPC (if i remember NT4 did actually support a IBM PPC)

from then on...
windows has supported the x86 intel architecture and eventually IA64 (which is intels 64 only cpu's but it was dropped as it did not run x86 code good enough) and then the norm (for x64 systems today) AMD's x86-64 ...

 

[vpdsouza]

how to connect from PS3 to Windows7 Media Center

Yes, I was facing this nightmare for over a month wasting most of my weekends and evenings to figure out what the hell am I doing wrong because I was not able to connect to my 32bit windows7 but was able to connect to 64bit win7. And today morning some of my accidental clicks fixed everything... So, I thought I will post my accidental steps here and it might help some of you I believe:

1. Go to your Homegroup
   1. Double click on the Network icon on your desktop --> then click on Homegroup link --> then click on the View homegroup settings link or
   2. in the Control Panel under Network and Internet click on Choose homegroup and sharing options
2. Click on the Leave the homegroup...
   1. on the popup click on the Leave the homegroup (remember this action will completely remove your sharing of Music, Photos, Videos etc.) and this step is intentional
3. Go back to Homegroup settings either by following step 1.1 or 1.2 and enable you Homegroup by following the screen prompts
4. Once the Homegroup is setup, go back to its settings
5. On the "Change homegroup settings" screen if the Pictures, Music, Videos etc checkboxes are not checked then check them
   1. as you check them a message appears right above those checkboxes with yellow exclamation mark
   2. read it and wait until it disappears
   3. at this point your sharing must have been completed
   4. Check whether the "Steam my pictures, music, and...." checkbox under "Share media with devices" is checked.
      1. if not then check the checkbox (wait if the sharing message appears until it disappears again...)
      2. This might seems stupid to wait but be patient and wait... wait... and wait...
6. believe me this is what i did in my part and it worked like a charm
7. now my PS3 with 80GB sees it and connects it without any problems.

Not sure whether you need this but in my McAfee firewall I checked the "Microsoft Directory Server (MSFT DS) Port 445 option while I was going crazy with my Media Center settings and it is still checked. I haven't unchecked it so far and I am little hesitant to uncheck it at this point... :smileymad:

Hope, these steps finds you the way out of the nightmare of Windows7 to PS3 media sharing struggle.

Good luck to you all,

Vincent D'Souza

 

[21Gjerde]

I was just wondering if it's possible to upgrade the RAM on the PS3?

and do anyone know if the ps3 is an ok computer for editing films in AVCHD format? (if i insert a new harddrive and more memory, then install linux)?