A little help on Win 7 Please

TourGuide

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Hey all,

I am wondering what people's luck has been with installing Win 7 on older gen hardware.

I have some mobos here - feedback on any of these or similar would be greatly appreciated.

MSI - K8N Neo2 - nForce 3 Ultra - socket 939 - Athlon 3000+ (2 gigs ram - all slots populated)

ASUS P5W DH - Intel 975 - E6600 (2.4) - 4 gigs (this latest bios has mem remapping enabled)

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P - P45 - E8600 - 8 gigs


I am thinking I will go 64 bit. Any problems with these boards?

-TG
 

Boobs McGee

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I highly doubt you will have any trouble with the S775 boards. I have not tried running 7 on a 939 system myself. I would suggest checking for 64 bit drivers prior to install just to be sure. If you have a spare hdd, I would throw that in and attempt the install on it first if you already have a functioning os.
 

Gamingphreek

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The nForce 3 wont have any 3rd party drivers but Windows should find what it needs.

The other 2 should have absolutely no problem.

Keep in mind though - while you can use Vista drivers in Windows 7 - DO NOT use Vista Core H/W drivers (ie: Chipset) on Windows 7. You should limit it to things like Keyboard, Scanner, Mouse, Printer, etc...

-Kevin
 

TourGuide

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Well, Im glad to hear you say the 775s will be OK. I suspected this would be the case.

The nForce board gives me reason to be concerned. As I understand it, there basically are no Vista drivers for the nForce 3 and below boards - so it is either Windows supported or not at all. I would really like to hear from someone who has one of these boards running on Win7. ...crosses fingers...
 

Gamingphreek

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Originally posted by: TourGuide
Well, Im glad to hear you say the 775s will be OK. I suspected this would be the case.

The nForce board gives me reason to be concerned. As I understand it, there basically are no Vista drivers for the nForce 3 and below boards - so it is either Windows supported or not at all. I would really like to hear from someone who has one of these boards running on Win7. ...crosses fingers...

Just because there are no 3rd party manf drivers, doesn't mean the hardware will not run or will stink.

There are no drivers on Windows 7 for my current nforce board (w/8200 graphics) outside of video and it works great.

-Kevin
 

TourGuide

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What chipset nForce are you running?

I see your main rig is a 775 similar to some of mine.
 

Gamingphreek

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Originally posted by: TourGuide
What chipset nForce are you running?

I see your main rig is a 775 similar to some of mine.

I apologize if you aren't directing this at me, but:

I don't believe I have anything similar to a S775 board in my rigs page. At any rate, disregard "My Rig" as it is out of date.

I'm using a Geforce 8200 based Chipset and I just installed the Graphics drivers and let Win7 take care of the rest. Works fine (Except for some weird sleep problem I keep running into).

-Kevin
 

kevbot

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I don't know if this helps, but I recently installed Windows 7 build 7100 RC on an old E machines E6805 laptop. The only thing that wasn't installed by default is a "PCI Simple Communications Controller", which I believe is the memory card reader. I haven't tried too hard to find a driver, but I am positive I can find a driver if I try hard enough. This thing is a socket 764, 3000+, 768 MB ram and Radeon 9600 mobile. It has a higher experience rating than my newer HP with a dual core Pentium (1.6 GHz), 2GB ram and Nvidia 7400 Go graphics.

Anyway Windows 7 runs pretty good on this laptop, even though it has to be a good 4 - 6 years old by now. It even sleeps/hibernates without issues. I tried Vista x64 before Win7, and it was a total dog. Big D.
Anyhoo, it seems to me that Win 7 will work with pretty much anything less than totally ancient hardware provided you can find drivers.

Also, I will admit that I have not installed a single program that was not included with Windows, so far, maybe it will fall on it's face with a few ordinary 3rd party programs running.

Cliffs:
Make sure that anything you can't afford to lose is backed up somewhere that your avid experimentation can't bork, then try any new/experimental software you want.
 

TourGuide

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Originally posted by: kevbot
I don't know if this helps, but I recently installed Windows 7 build 7100 RC on an old E machines E6805 laptop. The only thing that wasn't installed by default is a "PCI Simple Communications Controller", which I believe is the memory card reader. I haven't tried too hard to find a driver, but I am positive I can find a driver if I try hard enough. This thing is a socket 764, 3000+, 768 MB ram and Radeon 9600 mobile. It has a higher experience rating than my newer HP with a dual core Pentium (1.6 GHz), 2GB ram and Nvidia 7400 Go graphics.

Anyway Windows 7 runs pretty good on this laptop, even though it has to be a good 4 - 6 years old by now. It even sleeps/hibernates without issues. I tried Vista x64 before Win7, and it was a total dog. Big D.
Anyhoo, it seems to me that Win 7 will work with pretty much anything less than totally ancient hardware provided you can find drivers.

Also, I will admit that I have not installed a single program that was not included with Windows, so far, maybe it will fall on it's face with a few ordinary 3rd party programs running.

Cliffs:
Make sure that anything you can't afford to lose is backed up somewhere that your avid experimentation can't bork, then try any new/experimental software you want.

Thank you. That gives me further hope that everything will be OK with the nForce board. That is really the main concern as there are no chipset drivers for 7 from nVidia. I appreciate hearing about your success.