Windows 7 on a Dinosaur ! Pentium 2-266mhz 96meg ram


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ok this is not my system but over in this forum here the guy has installed and tested windows 7 on 2 system Pentium 2 @266mhz 1 with 128 ram and 1 with 96megs ram and over on page 2 someone showed pics of it on a K6-2 system

http://forum.thewindowsclub.com/windows-ha...7-dinosaur.html

Quote user hackerman1 : hi !

W7 runs on a P2 with 266MHz CPU, 96MB RAM & 4Mb graphic card !

i have done 3 tests: 2 successfull...

1. 128 MB RAM

2. 96 MB ram

take a look at the screenshots...

on my third test with 64 MB i got some errormessages about "insufficient memory", then it rebooted...

i also have a P1 with 166Mhz CPU & 1MB Graphic card, without the powersupply-unit, as i have used it for some tests on another PC.

if i can find the Powersupply-unit, i?m going to test the P1 tomorrow...

Quote user 2 with K6-2 system user rants##: The 7 runs quite well actually on "millennium" hardware. I've tested it succesfully on AMD K6-2 500Mhz with ~700MB memory AMD K6-2 500Mhz with ~700MB memory (512+256 and off that 32MB to shared with graphics). I did try to drop cpu around 300MHz which was the lowest possible and took out the 512 memory chip... System was still somewhat usable.

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Wow! I mean it is amazing, people who skipped Vista because it needs lot of hardware, can use it with their old PCs! But they can just run it, they will not get the best performance out of it.

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yea i mean damn being able to install windows 7 on system like that is awesome and the fact it is running decent to a passable usable system for email and such

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This is quite interesting, I wonder if Microsoft have removed the minimum memory requirement in order for setup to run (Windows Vista will not install on any configuration with less than 512MB of RAM, the installer will refuse to run).

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I'm not too surprised that it can install, but that is not going to be usable. I have Win7 installed on an 8-year-old 800 MHz P3 Celeron machine, and it's usable, but only barely and for light stuff only.

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More like the big bang era! :rofl:

But maen! That's impressive. I was going to test it on a 566 Celery I have here, but i'm not going to bother now... Or maybe I should just for a laugh anyway :p

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Hah Ill have to try it on my P3 1Ghz I have at home still!!

Although I bet itll turn out like my Mac.

Yay I can install Leopard OS 10.5 on my old G4 but it runs about as well as Vista would on a P2 heh.

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This is quite interesting, I wonder if Microsoft have removed the minimum memory requirement in order for setup to run (Windows Vista will not install on any configuration with less than 512MB of RAM, the installer will refuse to run).

Nope. Either this is bogus or they installed extra memory and removed it again. I tried putting it on a Celeron 400 with 256MB and it refused to install.

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Installing 7 on such a slow machine would be pointless for anything other than bragging rights anyway, even XP would run like a dog on it

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It's a bit silly anyway. Even if you did manage to install it, it's not usable and it means nothing unless you think simply running code on your computer is some great accomplishment.

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Installing 7 on such a slow machine would be pointless for anything other than bragging rights anyway, even XP would run like a dog on it

Yes, most definitely.

Just look on the second page, it got even below 1.0 :blink:

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That hardware wasn't so dinosaur when XP was in beta... I remember running RC1 on my Pentium MMX 166 with only 32MB ram by borrowing a friend's 64mb dimm to install. Needless to say I quickly upgraded to 256mb!

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I don't see the point of this? I mean what is the benefit of running Win7 on such an old PC? your better off leaving what it already had on it! the only real reason I see for doing this is so the Vista bashers can use it as amunition for why they think Vista is a POS OS.

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If he had more memory it would probably be usable. I have Vista on a P3-500 w/512. Fine for an internet/email box.

Its a lot like comparing it to a netbook, its at least a 5yr time machine.

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What's the point? It has to be so stripped down that it cannot be called Windows 7 anymore.

Poor resolution?

Installer hacked?

No aero?

Lagging all the time?

Not possible to open more than 1 application?

Unstable?

Impossible to put a desktop picture on the desktop?

Gadgets unavailable?

Impossible to be in 32-bit colour mode?

...

It doesn't even have to do with "how good Windows 7 is"...

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the point is i think to show anyone who thinks windows 7 is just vista with a new theme that it is not Vista that it is indeed a new OS cause if it was just Vista in a new theme and 100% vista then it would not install only anything less then 1ghz and run

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Yeah, I think some of you are missing it.

No one plans on using Windows 7 on a Pentium II system. They are just seeing on how much of a low-end system they can get it to run on. When someone squeezed Windows XP on an 8 Meg system, it was impressive, it wasn't for them to use. Same with this and Windows 7. They just want to see how low it can go.

The K6-2 could barely handle Windows 98....

Uh, what?

Windows 98 has a requirement of a "486". And that was just too much for the K6-2?

I could have sworn the K6-2 was faster than a Pentium II in many situations.

Win98 stated minimum (but it could be made to run on lower): 486 @ 66MHz (33MHz BUS) w/ 16 Megs RAM.

Possible K6-2 system: 550 MHz, 100MHz BUS, 128 Megs RAM.

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Did they run the installer from within Windows or something, because I can't get the installer to boot with less than 256MB of RAM. It either gives an out of memory error or crashes with some other arbitrary message.

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