Installing Windows 8 on a Pentium 4 Computer.

[rbarringto]

Hi Forum,

Is there a way to install Windows 8 on my Hewlett-Packard Pavilion t124a computer with Intel Pentium 4 processor computer without using NX or XD. I really wanted to see how good or crap this computer can be (runs Windows 7 like a dream). My other computer has a Celeron D CPU and that is really slow........................................................... and laggy. (even with windows xp).


-rbarringto

 

[Geoff]

What are the rest of the specs?

 

[rbarringto]

Hewlett Packard Pavilion t124a
Intel Pentium 4 (Northwood)
1 GB of RAM (2x512MB)
Current OS is Windows 7 Professional
NVidia GeForce 6200

Anything else?

 

[Okedokey]

Just run this: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=321548 and it will tell you.

 

[rbarringto]

I don't think you understand what I'm saying. What I want to do is to install Windows 8 on my PC, but my processor is a Pentium 4 and does not support NX (XD). Is there something that will bypass the whole NX checking thing?

 

[Okedokey]

No, you cannot bypass No-eXecute. If you run the update advisor and it says you cannot run it, you cannot run it.

 

[rbarringto]

Righto, thanks.

 

[claptonman]

If it can run Windows 7 like a dream, win8 will be even better.

 

[mrberty2o2o]

Have you tried booting the Windows 8 disk from the BIOS? if Windows 7 installed then Windows 8 should.

 

[rbarringto]

Comes up with error code when I go to boot up from BIOS Screen.



And again the question is....

- Can I install Windows 8.1 on my Pentium 4 processor (north wood) without having NX or XD enabled?

 

[DMGrier]

error code would be nice, from what I am seeing doing a quick bing search I would say no but could tell you more when I get that error code.

 

[Okedokey]

I just think you should run the update advisor, it will tell you what issues you may/may not have and possibly how to fix them. Trust me, MS want to sell every copy of Win 8 they can.

 

[ivtec]

Hi Forum,

Is there a way to install Windows 8 on my Hewlett-Packard Pavilion t124a computer with Intel Pentium 4 processor computer without using NX or XD. I really wanted to see how good or crap this computer can be (runs Windows 7 like a dream). My other computer has a Celeron D CPU and that is really slow........................................................... and laggy. (even with windows xp).


-rbarringto

No way you can do that,you could barely run win 7 on that machine

 

[Okedokey]

No way you can do that,you could barely run win 7 on that machine

And windows 7 is probably harder to run. Win 8 is more optimised.

 

[spynoodle]

I wouldn't give up so quickly on your Celeron D computer; Celeron D's are really just 65nm Pentium 4's with less cache, and most Celeron D's should be faster than a Northwood Pentium 4. More importantly, however, Celeron D's should support NX. What are the complete specs of your other computer? Maybe it's just laggy because you need a RAM upgrade, or perhaps you just haven't done regular maintenance in a while.

 

[Havoc]

The Only Windows 8 that Might work would be the Consumer Preview 32 bit..All the other One's will Not work..