Windows 7: 350 MHz, 160 MiB RAM
April 16th, 2011
Second part of the “Windows 7 on legacy hardware” experiment: CPU speed has been reduced to 350 MHz, RAM capacity is now 160 MiB – less was not possible. Windows 7 did not start with 128 MiB. This video was not edited, not cut, not triggered: it shows Windows 7 in real-time on a Pentium II computer. See the first steps at ref.madeonapc.de and ref.madeonapc.de . © 2009 Klopfzeilen.de
@LeleKM1 w00t?
COPATE ANKA TI
it’s like running vista sp0 on intel core 2 duo with 1 gb of DDR2
Hi, as far as I know Windows 7 requires ACPI capable hardware. Maybe you can enable ACPI in the mainboard BIOS – if not, find out, if there is an BIOS update available.
The board I used was originally from a Pentium III computer, I just replaced the cpu, so I had a platform that 7 would run on. The original mainboard for my Pentium II was’n ACPI capable, too.
Let me know if you succeeded
Wow, that’s awesome. I have a Pentium II box too. It has ATC-6220 v2 mobo, PII 350MHz, 160MB RAM, 3D RAGE PRO video card w/8MB of memory and 4GB HDD. When I tried to install an error came up saying my system isn’t ACPI compatible. :/
So I have a few questions. Did you pass ACPI check? If yes then how? Is your mobo ACPI compatible?
I wish Windows 7 would run on my old box.
Thx.
Might be a bit slow, but heck it works right? I’m glad to see this, going to be a good OS for Netbooks.
Hm…
- build a PC
- install Windows 7
That’s it.
I used some standard tricks to let Windows run a little faster (stopping services, turning off visual designs, …).
hey!!!!! How is it possible?