+Warwagon MVC Posted May 23, 2009 MVC Share Posted May 23, 2009 Here is a video I made after seeing the "How low can it go" Article on the front page yesterday. So I decided to go really low. I went out to my shed and got a really old PII 400. I could have gone lower. All the way down to a Pro 200 but I didn't have 512 megs worth of that kind of ram and Windows 7 won't install with out 512 megs of ram or more. So here we go! By the way when I said "Screen Tearing, I mean artifacts" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Lyle Global Moderator Posted May 23, 2009 Global Moderator Share Posted May 23, 2009 I already watched it when you sent it to me, I laughed at a few points during your video :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fix-this! Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 it may run like crap but at least it installs in the first place. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted May 23, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 23, 2009 I'm surprised it didn't run slower, and completely freeze up, to be honest :p Interesting video, thanks warwagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 LOL 100mhz bus speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmatic Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 this is the future of computing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife Party Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 mmm, you must have a lot of free time to waste :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ba'al Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 I'd go deaf (or mad, or both :laugh: ) sitting all the time next to that hair dryer fan :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+shift. MVC Posted May 24, 2009 MVC Share Posted May 24, 2009 Makes me want to try and install this on my dad's old 350MHz PII :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted May 24, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 24, 2009 I would try this on my old IBM Aptiva with a Pentium 150 MHz CPU... but let's just say that it struggled to run Windows Me. Oh and the size of the Windows 7 disc is already larger than the entire hard drive itself. :rofl: Amusing video nonetheless. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_is_Axel Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 how are the screen artefacts formed? Its not by the power of the graphics card right because i am using an ATI Radeon 9600Pro with Athlon XP 64bit 3500+ and 1GB Ram as my main system and Windows 7 works great. Is it the slow CPU thats causing the artefacts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kralik Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 I'm really surprised it run on a PII TBH.. thats what I'll install now instead of Vista SP2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Wow, now that's classic! I should grab this Celery 600 i've got sitting next to me and do that, we could have a face-off! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Wizard Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Nice vid, I wouldn't have thought it would have even installed on a PII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br0adband Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Pretty funny stuff. I've got an Acer C100 Tablet PC (the first convertible ones from way back around 2001) with a Pentium 3 900 MHz Mobile in it, but it maxes out at 256MB of PC100 RAM, was thinking about trying this sort of test just to see what would happen. I might do some research into gutting out Windows 7 with vLite into the smallest possible and still useful OS I can while maintaining the Tablet PC features. Could be a nice project, but I'll wait till I get a faster hard drive for it - the original 30GB 4200 rpm drive would most certainly drag it down so slow it wouldn't be useful. The CPU at 900 MHz should be fine, actually; those Pentium 3 models were pretty snappy. But I'm guessing that with all the services Windows 7 has by default will end up crippling it in some way. Probably just gut out XP Tablet Edition 2005 and make it as micro-sized as I can yet still useful. Cool video though, that's just the kind of off-the-wall stuff I do: installing software and OSes on hardware that by any logic simply shouldn't be doing it. :D Had a friend of mine install XP on a Pentium 60 with 32MB of RAM once - he hacked the **** outta most of the installer checks to get it to install. Yes it was dog slow but it worked... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windows7even Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 amazed that pos even has a bios...i was expecting punch cards or something..lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcoaster Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Wow, I was expecting much less actually. Bravo! (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 I can't believe it actually installed... to funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted May 24, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 24, 2009 What was its Windows Experience Index rating? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted May 24, 2009 Author MVC Share Posted May 24, 2009 how are the screen artefacts formed? Its not by the power of the graphics card right because i am using an ATI Radeon 9600Pro with Athlon XP 64bit 3500+ and 1GB Ram as my main system and Windows 7 works great. Is it the slow CPU thats causing the artefacts? It was just because the graphics card was going bad, and nothing more. I can't believe it actually installed... to funny The only thing I think the install checks is how much ram you have. If you have can put 512 megs of ram in anything windows will install. What was its Windows Experience Index rating? :p Not sure, I tried but the it errored out said it couldn't complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ba'al Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 The only thing I think the install checks is how much ram you have. If you have can put 512 megs of ram in anything windows will install. Anyone still got a 486 rotting away somewhere? ;) (Although... could you already install 512MB Ram back then?) Not sure, I tried but the it errored out said it couldn't complete. "I really can't give this thing a rating, even 0.1 would still be too much, so i'll just throw an error." :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udedenkz Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 I can't believe it actually installed... to funny Well, due to the fact that, you 'can' run XP on a 8Mhz CPU, I do not why this would be surprising. Now, what about a P 166? Now that would be something! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Blue01 Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 I'm surprised you got 512 MB RAM. I didn't see a machine with that much RAM until 2003 with WinXP. I know Win2000 is like the fastest OS ever with that much RAM. Wow, that was amazing! It installed about as fast as WinXP does on some machines and behaves as fast as Vista RC1/2 does in my testing in a virtual machine with 512 MB RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrismaddern Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Could be a nice project, but I'll wait till I get a faster hard drive for it - the original 30GB 4200 rpm drive would most certainly drag it down so slow it wouldn't be usefu My Macbook Air runs Win 7 very nicely on a 4200 rpm drive :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akaruz Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 (edited) the problem might be the directx , so it cant run the Aero parts and well the media encoding/decoding tunning :p edit : opss i noticed that you changed to an ATI in the end , so the above coment was if it was built-in but hey under 1 hour to install , pretty cool :p Edited May 26, 2009 by Akaruz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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