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    Windows 7 on a PII300??!!

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by mattpayne, Mar 13, 2010.

  1. mattpayne

    mattpayne Notebook Consultant

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    My new CF-27 only has the little 6gb drive, so I thought id treat it to one of the old 40gb drives ive got kicking about... poked it into the machine with my xp cd, but missed the boot from CD prompt...

    Appears this is the old drive i tested win7RC on in my CF-29 :) so i leave it to boot... and leave it some more.... and after a while i get a desktop!! its not really what you would call responsive! lol!!! but im just surprised it ran at all!!

    [​IMG]

    but for the sake of having something that actually works, XP is now currently installing! :)
     
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    KLonsdale Notebook Evangelist

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    LOL, I'll bet it was just a little unresponsive. It is also interesting because I can't get a full featured Linux distribution such as Mint or Unbutu to even boot because of the pre-1999 bios issue on my CF-27 Mk IV.
     
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    Hey Matt, did you go on a coffee break, take a leak, have a shower and be in time for the W7 desktop to appear?? :D :D

    Ron in SG
     
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    hey im sure you could install a slim 7 and disable everything and THEN it would work better
     
    xboxhaxorz, Mar 14, 2010
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  5. mattpayne

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    i was thinking about it!! i kept wondering if the thing had hung of if it was working!!!

    responsive inst really what Id call the machine! lol!! I dont even think a slim build would help too much!
     
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  6. Alex

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    +1 for xp

    -1 for windows 7

    What were you drinking :eek:



    Alex
     
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    One time I was messin' around and managed to get XP Professional loaded on an old IBM 486 laptop... I think it was around 25MHz with 16MB RAM on a 2GB hard drive... Took about 20 minutes to boot! :D
     
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    I ran XP on my old CF-25. I had her screaming at 233 Mhz by hard wiring the multiplier directly on the chip, and I cut a couple of pins off the bottom of the processor. I documented the hack here, years ago, under the screen name "Blanko" at Wims bios.
    http://www.wimsbios.com/forum/topic3328.html
     
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    I was thinking of trying XP on my CF-25 as I have it rocking a HUGE 160mb RAM! haha

    I have XP Pro SP3 on my CF-27 300MHz with 320mb RAM. Runs surprisingly well!
     
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    I ran xp sp1 or sp2 on 300MHz 196mb ram computers
    Xp runs stable ,you just have to worry about multitasking and ram usage


    Alex
     
    Alex, Mar 21, 2010
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