[AccessD] Windows 8

Hi all

Well, this old zd8237 is now nearly 9 years old and still in good shape.

So I decided to beef it up with a 128 GB SSD drive and Windows 8.1 Update 2, of course as 32-bit.

It installed in half an hour. The trouble was - as expected - the old Radeon X600 chip for which the latest driver is for Vista.
I managed to fix this:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/94640ce9-9160-4166-8908-acffab5c71d5/ati-mobility-radeon-x600-driver-update-installs-but-screen-goes-black?forum=w7itprohardware&prof=required

The machine now boots in 25 seconds to the logon screen (domain logon) and 5 seconds more to the Desktop and runs as well as ever before.

So this must be the end to the myth that Windows 7/8 doesn't run on old hardware.

/gustav

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Fra: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com <accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Gustav Brock
Sendt: 2. december 2011 22:48
Til: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Emne: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8

Hi Jim

Of course, most old hardware won't do.

But I just installed Windows 7 Pro on my 6 years old HP 17" Pavilion zd8000 (zd8237) laptop (P4, 3 GHz, 2 GB ram, 90 GB disk, ATI Radeon X600 with DirectX 9) and it runs of course not fast but smoothly.

It took a little to locate the legacy ATI video drivers for Vista, though.

/gustav


>>> jimdettman at verizon.net 01-12-2011 22:11 >>>

 Try running Win 7 on older hardware and you won't like it.

Jim.