Installing Windows 7 on a Pentium II IBM Thinkpad 570

This first part shows the installation of Tiny7 a thin version of Windows 7 Ultimate onto an ancient Pentium II laptop. Its a Pentium II 366 Mhz with 320 MB of ram.

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• IBM
• Thinkpad
• 570
• windows 7
• legacy
• ancient
• laptop

[NovackProductions]

Any computer smart mac user knows that you cant run snow leopard on a Wallstreet because snow leopard is made for intel macs, not for the g3/g4/g5 macs.

[ValpocadeVegas]

@NovackProductions It wasnt meant literally of course.

[ca280491]

how come you have 320 MB of ram when i looked on the internet and they say it's 192 Mb max

[ValpocadeVegas]

@ca280491 When the Thinkpad 570 was manufactured 256MB SODIMMS did not exist. The 440BX Chipset can handle up to 512MB. I simply installed a 16 chip low density 256MB PC100 SODIMM which adds to the built in 64MB that comes with the Thinkpad 770. I will be making another video showing the entire boot up from power to the desktop. Just search Google and you will see a Thinkpoad 570 can indeed handle 320MB of ram :)

[ValpocadeVegas]

@ValpocadeVegas Thinkpad 570 I mean :D

[LoneWanderer83]

Impressive! This makes me want to test this out on my Thinkpad 570E!

[ValpocadeVegas]

@LoneWanderer83 Windows 7 should run really nice on your 570E. If you need help getting the video driver working right let me know because I have had great success on multiple vintage laptops. I had 7 running nicely on a Thinkpad 770 too but never could get that Trident video card to do 2D acceleration but i will even get that working when I have the time.

[killerbee230]

Okay this is running surprisingly fast!! Windows 7 is really impressive. What happened when you installed the drivers for the trident card?

[MSOfficeBR]

Laptop=1998

OS=2009

[NonSapor]

I see it's got those ATI graphics! Rage Pro amirite? btw nice job on getting that shit to run lol

[iToasterman]

@NovackProductions Any computer smart person would get a pc.

[97AlanD]

Is it true that you can install any version of windows on any PC?

[larewwedxhhh19]

@01235639 It's a 1998 model. Of course it will be slow.

[01235639]

This Laptop is slow!

[JamihTripstone]

hello, i gat a thinkpad..may be a 570 i don t remember. i ve formated it coz of viruses and nowwwww, don't know how to install a system coz all the peripherals don't work...

Please, what should I do..i would put Win 7 in

[kaylenachanlau]

kenapa sih hrs pake lagu ini?kenapa ga itu suara aslinya?

[honam1021]

@ValpocadeVegas Can we run Snow Leopard under a VM on a G4/G5?