legacy hardware

Hi folks, I have a relative who is running Windows XP Media Center on a Dell Dimension 5100. In my opinion MCE is somewhat "quirky." He expressed interest in upgrading to Windows 7. How well would Windows 7 run on this machine? From what I understand it doesn't run all that bad on older...

Well a lot of people have posted about loading Windows 7 on a minimal machine. I was curious about my old Dell Dimensions 8200 being able to run Windows 7. It has a Pent 4 at 2.0 G processor and 1 G ram. I downloaded VMware Player and installed then installed Win 7 32bit Home Premium. I got...

I'm attempting to install windows 7 ultimate on a desktop. It's a dual core AMD, 2 gigs of ram, etc. It has a DVD drive out of a HP a640N, which HP says is a Philips DVD8401 (this is a IDE drive, not SATA). I mention this because after I select my language and keyboard type, after it says...

[Solved] ATI Drivers on older laptop not working Hello! I've been having this issue for about a week now, and have been searching nonstop for a solution, but theres nothing that works. Its a really annoying one, and i turn to you guys in hope for some answers.. See, i have this laptop, an...

Computer specs: P4 2.60 Ghz 2GB ram Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit NVidia GeForce FX 5500 Having issues with Windows Media Center, for some reason when I start this program the audio and video stutters. Even when you play dvds. (via HD or dvd drive) All drivers have been updated to the latest...

I installed windows 7 Ultimate (a clean install) onto an older Dell XPS computer running Winsdows xp sp3. The problem I am having is that I cannot access my cd or my dvd drive. The cd and dvd drives show up in device manager and says there are not conflicts and all is working properly. The...

Hi! I have a soundblaster sound card - it is a Live! 5.1 surround sound card and I cannot find the right driver for it anywhere for use within windows 7 64bit. The vendor id : 1102 device id: 0002 I have tried the driver I thought I had used with my old 32bit windows but it doesnt work. Can...

i plan on using w7 for a home media system .i need to find out what cards are compatible w/ w7. i have a 1800 that works but i was lookin for a older one for an older machine pci slot p4 2.8 478 533.

Alright, its an ancient laptop, but with a bit of luck (and pleasantly to my surprise), Vista actually installed on it. However, after getting around the initial celebration, I noticed that there were a couple of MASSIVE problems :'( 1. For some reason, I can't increase or decrease the screen...

Well, I have Windows XP on HP Pavillion a1102n. My CPU Speed is 2.93GHz which is good. and 512MB of Ram.. I already know how to upgrade the ram and it is very easy.. But the windows 7 update advisor says my computer cant handle windows aero and whatnot.. How do i fix this problem?? Do i get...

For the past several days I've been trying to find a solution to get several older network cards- Brand Name, and NO-Name working with: WINDOWS 7 RC 7100 (32-bit) (Was very surprised that Windows did not pick up the below cards- as many hundreds of thousands of these cards were probably...

Brand Dell Model Optiplex GX270 Processor Brand Intel Processor Type Pentium 4 Processor Speed 2.4 GHz Installed Memory 512MB Graphics Card Intel Extreme Graphics 2 Hard Drive Size 40GB Optical 1 CDROM Floppy Yes Ethernet 10/1000 Front USB Port(s) 2 Back USB Port(s) 6 Case Style SFF

Greetings, all! Just for jollies, I'm trying Windows 7 on an ancient homebrew I built back in 2003 and change. It has a decent (for the times) HD (150g) and reasonable memory (2g) and the processor isn't bad (1.75mhz), but it's the original ABit motherboard and cards. The point of this is...

Yo 'Windows 7 Forums', I've recently installed Windows 7 on my computer, anyways cut a long story short, I've searched through the net downloading 'Sound Blaster Live 5.1 drivers for windows 7 or x64 Vista drivers), and tried to install them countless times, ill get either a error message saying...

I am using a old motherboard which doesnt have a native SATA driver on the chipset (I think). When I installed WinXP on this computer I had to either use the press F2 (or was it F7) or something when installation, and have the driver on a floppy driver. Thats why I have a old 20 GB PATA disk...

I have been troubleshooting an issue for a week where the p.c. goes through normal quick shutdown process but just restarts instead of shutting down.. It started after I clean installed 7100 on an old Gateway that had been running 7000 fine for 3 months. WHen it became impossible to fix I...

Been reading a lot about windows 7 and the new hardware. Wondering how windows 7 runs on slow machines like pentium 1,2,3,4, ect.

I tried installing W7 on a a spare partition on my (fakeraid) RAID1, and installation went through but I get an error after selecting W7 from the bootloader (I can still boot XP from the W7 bootloader). Is it possible that installation could pass but booting could fail if I used the wrong RAID...

I got the Windows 7 64 bit 7057 ISO and I burned it to a DVD-R disc using Imgburn. I have installed Windows 7 before using this same method. When I boot from the disc i get a black screen with the blinking _ on it. The drive spins a little, and then stops. And it stays blinking. Here are my...

I have Jetway PCTV 610 (yes, it's old!) tuner, based on BT848. Does anyone have a win7 driver for it? may be one from AverMedia or something like this will work? or where i can get this? windows update found nothing.