Able to run Vista on ancient computer???

Tma20SC · 09-27-2007, 06:02 AM

My brother-inlaw is wondering if i can run Home basic on his:

Windows XP Pro Sp2
AMD Athlon 1.20GHz
20Gb Hard Drive
256mb ram memory
16mb graphics card

Will it maybe install but run on the windows classic theme instead?

f.i.t.h · 09-27-2007, 08:14 AM

It will not work, the hardware is to weak.
Anyway, Vista is crap use Linux (or just stick to XP)

oscaryu1 · 09-27-2007, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tma20SC

My brother-inlaw is wondering if i can run Home basic on his:

Windows XP Pro Sp2
AMD Athlon 1.20GHz
20Gb Hard Drive
256mb ram memory
16mb graphics card

Will it maybe install but run on the windows classic theme instead?

512MB Miniumum RAM - Fail
Faster than 800MHz CPU - Pass
Minimum of 20GB HDD - Pass
GFX -- ... get an new one.

**apj101** · 09-27-2007, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by f.i.t.h

It will not work, the hardware is to old.
Anyway, Vista is crap use Linux (or just stick to XP)

care to provide any evidence to support that, or is it just your opinion

patrickv · 09-27-2007, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by apj101

care to provide any evidence to support that, or is it just your opinion

i will suport f.i.t.h also, , not that the hardware is old but according to my expericence with vista mine is :
AMD Athlon 1.20GHz - Fair but not good
20Gb Hard Drive - bah fail get above 80gb (considering you will install more programs later)
256mb ram memory - FAIL
16mb graphics card - i don't need to speak on this one, not even classic theme will run

i don't agree that vista requires 800mhz, as 800mhz is crap for vista to run on , thats like P3.
but anyways thats my view.My current machine with a fresh vista ultimate installation runs like crap and here is the specs :
Intel Celeron 2.8ghz - FAIL
Geforce 6200TB 256MB - PASS
120GB SATA HD - PASS
1GB DDR2 - PASS ,but still not enough

the above specs took like 2 minutes at boot screen and another 50 seconds at startup.
That was fresh nothing installed

kof2000 · 09-27-2007, 06:44 PM

home basic will run on 512. they even sell computer with basic with 512 ram.

Jabes · 09-28-2007, 12:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by patrickv

i will suport f.i.t.h also, , not that the hardware is old but according to my expericence with vista mine is :
AMD Athlon 1.20GHz - Fair but not good
20Gb Hard Drive - bah fail get above 80gb (considering you will install more programs later)
256mb ram memory - FAIL
16mb graphics card - i don't need to speak on this one, not even classic theme will run

i don't agree that vista requires 800mhz, as 800mhz is crap for vista to run on , thats like P3.
but anyways thats my view.My current machine with a fresh vista ultimate installation runs like crap and here is the specs :
Intel Celeron 2.8ghz - FAIL
Geforce 6200TB 256MB - PASS
120GB SATA HD - PASS
1GB DDR2 - PASS ,but still not enough

the above specs took like 2 minutes at boot screen and another 50 seconds at startup.
That was fresh nothing installed

for a pc to run good you need to go dual or quad core

Cheese · 09-28-2007, 01:47 AM

and overclock it. I got Vista Ultimate and i got to say, its cool.

Kabu · 09-28-2007, 01:57 AM

You'll have to upgrade a few things, but it's cheaper than a new PC

Quote:

Windows Vista Home Basic
• 800-megahertz (MHz) 32-bit (x86) processor or 800-MHz 64-bit (x64) processor
• 512 megabytes (MB) of system memory
Note On system configurations that use system memory as graphics memory, at least 448 MB of system memory must be available to the operating system after some memory is allocated for graphics.
• DirectX 9-class graphics card
• 32 MB of graphics memory
• 20-gigabyte (GB) hard disk that has 15 GB of free hard disk space
• Internal or external DVD drive
• Internet access capability
• Audio output capability

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919183/

Jabes · 09-28-2007, 03:16 AM

IMAO thats to ancient

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