Windows 7 On a Old Dell.

This is my 24 dollar Dell 4300 system. That i have gotten, I thought i would use it
to test Windows 7 on. Here is the results!
Specs:
Pentium 4 1.6ghz Non Ht
512mb ram Maxed
16mb video card ati rage 128 pro
20gig Wd 200 Hdd.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Dell 4300
• Windows 7
• Pentium 4
• ati rage 128 pro

[dalamaarthedark]

My brother has pretty much the same system, but when I upgraded him to W7 it would only list a generic VGA adapter and wouldn't let you run a resolution higher than 620x480! I just bought him a ATI Rage 128 Pro Video Card, and his system doesn't recognize it?? Any suggestions or ideas?

[Appl3Byte]

@dalamaarthedark These old video cards tend to not work really well with the Win 7 your best bet is try to get a video card around 128mbs of ram at least. I know my system here has a Ati rage 128 pro but its running on just generic drivers. I upgraded it now with an Ati radeon 9200 128mb card.

[Appl3Byte]

I upgraded the ram to 1gig and installed an Ati 9200 128mb video card into it. Runs old games fine!

[hahahaz07]

I thought 512mb is max?

[Appl3Byte]

Yes for this model. Should of stated i got another dell system similar to this setup but with the same processor speed. Tho it allows me to add in more ram. Il make a video of it soon.

[Jivemaster2005]

ooops it's a socket 478 system..still almost on par with a PIII Tualatin 14 though :D

[Appl3Byte]

Yea your right. Also the max ram this pc can handle is only 512mbs cant go higher. I do have an Dell 4100 system with an PIII coppermine at 1.1ghz. They both have the same speed comparison just about.

[Tualetipart]

Omg i watched this on a rage 128 pro. how meta is that...

[RainbowRoan]

the rage 128 may be a little bit better than the x4500m etc because the rage is dedicated..

[rolandlub]

i got the exact same pc :O

and put in a 512mb grafix card

and 1240mb +- ram (thats the max for this mother board)

power supply got hot so i took out the 2 cd/dvd drives and the diskette station

now its starts in 12 seconds with windows xp and runs games preatty sweet

:P

[Mitko54682DS]

@lukeool it should be enough. it will run good (if you recieve your ati radeon 9550)

[lukeool]

i have a dell dimension 4550 it has the exact same case as yours

pentium4 2.5ghz

1gb ram

ati rage ultra 128 pro 16mb (i orderd a ati radeon 9550 256mb)

120 gb hard drive

whill this run ok with windows 7?

[mant1ss]

Have DEll Dimension 2400. Bought ATI Rage 128 Pro to replace on-Baord Video, but can't get system to recognize the card. Has no problems recognizing older Diamond 3D 2000. Anyone know how I can get this system to recognize the ATI card. Looks like a few postees here have.

[UltimateVenom]

you got that for $25?

[TheWindowsChannel]

@dalamaarthedark I have a system very similar to this. When I run the upgrade disk for Win7, I had also upgraded the RAM to 2Gb, stuck in a ATI Radeon 9200, added a new HDD, etc. And last I upgraded the orig. P4 1.6(ish)GHz to a newer 2.xGHz one. All in all when I did that, it ran pretty decent, but ATI Rage 128 Pro is over 7yrs old. So Windows Vista wouldn't even have support for that. Actually on the RAM, my system is quite a few years newer. It's a Dell Optiplex 5xxx Series.