old hardware

Hello, I have an older laptop with Intel 855GM chipset. I tried a lot of tutorials on the net but nothing worked for me. The driver used to revert back on standard Windows 7 native driver. I was able to get everything working correctly finally :) . I put up a tutorial with correct driver for all...

Anyone on this board ever use the awesome media center OS called GeeXboX? I am extraordinarily pleased with this super lightweight linux OS. I have an OLD 600 MHz P3 in an even olde ISA based (1 PCI slot the rest is ISA) Gateway PC using a video card that is made by nvidia but is so old I can't...

I must say, I'm easy when it comes to operating systems. I was lucky enough to get into the Windows Vista, and subsequently, Windows 7, Beta testing. I therefore had the advantage of not having to dig to deep into my pocket to examine the OS’s. Although my preference is Windows in all...

I am looking for a SCSI PCI adapter card that has 64 bit drivers. No problem, right? However, it needs to have an external connector for a 50 pin SCSI-1 cable. Not so easy now, eh? I have a Nikon Coolscan 3 slide scanner and don't want to (i.e.: can't afford) a newer model. I recently upgraded...

Any way to tweek windows 7 RC1 to have aero support for older hardware?

I got a Canon Printer which have no Vista support from official site which I wish to use it in W7. I know it's an old AIO printer but sometimes the scanner comes in handy, but problem is I only get hold of XP driver for it. I tried installed the Virtual XP mode beta and I try to setup my...

A very frustrating experience tonight. I have found W7 to be mostly positive; aside from a sound card issue it's been very stable, but tonight I hit a brick wall. My roommate has a lot of musical equipment; specifically, we tried to hook up the following device Emagic AMT8 MIDI Interface (USB)...

Hello together, 1 hour ago I installed the RC Version of Windows 7 with no problems. It runs with no problems too. But when I want to play a game, the game says, that I have to update my DirectX and the Video Driver. Problem is, that I have an old Graphic Card (ATI Radeon 9000 256 MB) and didnt...

I am really satisfied with Windows 7- I installed it on my ASUS pro31jc Notebook and it runs almost perfect. I only have isues with my Laptop (not with Windows 7) and my Problem is following: My Laptop Fan is too loud, maybe it is because its too old. Maybe my Fan is working as it should and i...

Gigabyte K8U-939 X2 4200 2GB RAM ATI X850 Old Soundblaster card plenty o diskspace USB mouse/keyboard Windows 7 copies the files and stuff but when it goes to reboot I get the Windows 7 boot logo and then it restarts. And does it again and again unless I go to previous Windows. I think it's...

Hi guys Im new here and new to 7 so take it easy on me please..! Currently running 7.0 on an old POS lappy 1.60 ghz processor and 512 meg RAM surprisingly its holding up really well. Though its a clone computer all but one of the drivers has been picked up, so all good there. One thing i...

I have a HP Pavillion A1120N, with a INTEL 915GV chipset. Windows 7 looks like crap on it, it seems to not recognize any support for Aero, despite being direct x 9 compatible. So wtf gives? How can I get aero to work on it? How the hell can people talk about how great Windows 7 is when it...

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...

After install of Win7 to an old Gateway 700LTD, it won't shut down and just restarts when clicking Shut Down, Sleep, Hibernate or using the Power Button to shut down. I have to do a hard shutdown at the point where it restarts. This is an older machine which could not boot from disk, so I...

hi, ive found that my hdd led blinks frequently, and when i want to open simple window my hdd works pretty hard to open it. i have amd athlon 64 3000+ 1.5gb ram 120gb hdd sata 7200 rpm. i know that my computer is old, but i dont really like that, because xp or even arch linux with newest kde...

I have Windows 7 on a dozen home, office and family computers but wanted to try a lite version on an old HP 510 laptop and Gateway 700 with limited 528 ram. I downloaded the popular Windows.7.Beta.Build.7000.LiTE (1,43gb) from the web, it activated with MS Win7 key and works perfectly on both...

Ok so I tossed and old box together to see how old a machine W7 will install 2. 1ghz Athlon 1.5G PC133 ram 80 gig IDE Boots no problem from the dvd, I get to the starting windows part and the win7 logo appears, the screen then goes black, I get a white pointer arrow and thats it... It just...

Hello, AMD 64x2 3800+ 64-bit Win7 (Activated) 2gig DDR 400 ATI TV-Wonder 650 Pro PCI-E I have a old nforce 4 amd/sli Gigabyte K8N-Pro-SLI motherboard... using the latest BIOS that works (F9) dated in 2006... (F10) dated 2008, the board will not post) -- (and of course the latest motherboard...

I am trying to install Windows 7 on an older laptop, which does meet the minimum requirements. The problem is that the laptop cannot boot from DVD. I have tried a few things thus far, like: 1. Connected an external DVD drive via USB only to find that the laptop is not able to boot from USB...

I recently windows 7 on a partition with xp on the same computer.( HP a330n ) There is no internet connection. the error message is.. "Windows did not detect a properly installed network adapter. If you have a network adapter you need to reinstall the driver." I tried installing the latest...