single core Dell Insp 6000, windows 10?

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I use my old Dell as a backup.. Windows wants to install 10 on it.. It barely runs Windows 7. Is 10 less resourceful, and will it run on it?

 

[sm625]

I wouldnt. It would take forever for it to install and update on that old hdd, and you get very little reward for it.

 

[JackMDS]

The Dell 6000 is using Intel 915GM chipset. The Graphics/Vedio part of the chipset was not even compatible with Vista. Some play with drivers mange it to work with Vista and sort of with Win 7.

Win 10? This is what you get if you try.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...t/63629b0b-35be-4172-9fa7-28e8c32529ae?auth=1

That said, look at the last two responses of the thread. Who knows you might get lucky and find something.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

yeah, the thing was excruciatingly slow. I put a PATA SSD in it and it made it a tiny bit faster...

I don't mind Windows 7 on it, I'm just curious why Windows wants to install 10 on it when it's too old to run it

 

[JackMDS]

According to this it is more that just pure drivers.

http://www.tenforums.com/graphic-cards/18825-how-install-old-drivers-windows-10-a.html

As for this

I don't mind Windows 7 on it, I'm just curious why Windows wants to install 10 on it when it's too old to run it

I got the Upgrade to Win10 Icon on an Old computer that was "Forced" to Run Win 7. When I actually tried to Upgrade it did not work.

I guess the initial Upgrade suggestion does Not thoroughly test the computer it probably assumes that if Win 7 is running the computer in General is also Win 10 ready and do not check for "Hacked Drivers".

 

[bacillus]

fwiw I've upgraded my wife's old Inspiron 6000 that came with a 1.86Ghz cpu and ati X300 video card to win 10 and it works fine after a few minutes post desktop appearance.
It also has 2GB of ram (max for the board) and a pata ssd.

Device manager shows no unknown hardware and every thing seems to work. I ran win7 32 bit before upgrading to win 10.

 

[VirtualLarry]

The Dell 6000 is using Intel 915GM chipset. The Graphics/Vedio part of the chipset was not even compatible with Vista. Some play with drivers mange it to work with Vista and sort of with Win 7.

fwiw I've upgraded my wife's old Inspiron 6000 that came with a 1.86Ghz cpu and ati X300 video card to win 10 and it works fine after a few minutes post desktop appearance.
It also has 2GB of ram (max for the board) and a pata ssd.

Device manager shows no unknown hardware and every thing seems to work. I ran win7 32 bit before upgrading to win 10.

It seems that if you have an add-on GPU, it seems possible to upgrade to 10. Otherwise, the video is unsupported.

 

[Charlie98]

I wouldn't try it... in fact, I didn't. I had a 6000 just like yours, I'm guessing, with a single core CPU and PATA drive. Although it was in very good shape, I had even upgraded the CPU and RAM, I didn't think dumping another dime into a single-core, PATA laptop was a smart move.

I did update my daughter's Dell, a 1501, dual-core AMD laptop... first to 7, then to 10, and it's working pretty well. Even with an SSD upgrade, though, it's still dog slow... but it works. Drivers are a problem, and the ability to get them from Dell is drying up.

I wouldn't waste my time...

 

[AACTech]

I use my old Dell as a backup.. Windows wants to install 10 on it.. It barely runs Windows 7. Is 10 less resourceful, and will it run on it?

Just for the record; Windows 10 32bit Version 1703 (OS Build 15063.540) works on the Dell Inspiron 6000.
Aceptable IF you insert at least a 1 GB SD card in the SD slot and activate Ready Boost and upgrade RAM to 2x1GB for total of 2GB.
The ATI Radeon x300 video works with the "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter" driver. All other drivers installed fine - even the USB 2.0 one.
The CPU can max at 1866.7 MHz and RAM at 333.3.
Good for word processing, browsing web, email, etc.
I'm giving it to a musician friend for writing and storing music.

 

[JackMDS]

Yeah, Win 10 give better basic functionality to old Video cards than Win XP/&/Vista did.

That said, to make it work reasonably you better of installing IDE SSD.

Example - https://www.amazon.com/KingSpec-2-5-inch-Solid-SM2236-Controller/dp/B008RWKFYE

 

[AACTech]

They still sell IDE or PATA SSD's - wow!
I'll have to try a 64GB SD card and see if it works...now if I can just get my wife to lend me one from here camera...?