The 7th Hell of Gates

[J0n0]

It baffles me, but I'm no IT guru either.

As I have said, consider yourself lucky..... Had 32 and 64. Had hardware compatibility issues on both.

Maybe you just don't know what you are doing?

In the years I'm involved in IT, I've never come across new hardware that isn't Windows 7 Compatible unless you buy some fong kong device. Doing 2 to 4 installations a day, I'm still to have an issue.

 

[bekdik]

Sounds more like there is a problem with the hardware, especially the DVD drive or the DVD itself, not a basic design problem with the Windows 7 operating system.

 

[reneg8or]

The only issues with older hardware I am aware of, is with the 64bit version of Windows 7. 32bit works fine for me.

EDIT: AFAIK, Defragging does not really help much with an NTFS partition.

Older hardware poses a problem to newer Linux distro's as well. My newer notebooks run nicely on the latest from Ubuntu but my 2003 HP Compaq NX9010 installs Mint 12.10 but then loads a blank screen. I insert a flash drive to let it call up its file manager, from where I tried to invoke Gnome, but even that failed. It has a Pentium 4 Mobile 2.8GHz CPU, 1GB DDR of which 64GB goes to the ATI Radeon 200 graphics. And I suppose it is the graphics chip that is the culprit? Not an expert view but a novice opinion.

 

[ponder]

...but my 2003 HP Compaq NX9010 installs Mint 12.10 but then loads a blank screen. I insert a flash drive to let it call up its file manager, from where I tried to invoke Gnome, but even that failed. It has a Pentium 4 Mobile 2.8GHz CPU, 1GB DDR of which 64GB goes to the ATI Radeon 200 graphics. And I suppose it is the graphics chip that is the culprit? Not an expert view but a novice opinion.

I know Lubuntu 12.04 & Crunchbang works on that laptop, I tried it some time back. It's probably the graphics drivers in 12.10.

 

[Sinbad]

Windows 7 64 seems to have issues with some USB chipsets.
Syncing my iPhone from my motherboard USB ports takes forever. Syncing from an add-in card's USB port takes a few seconds.

 

[reneg8or]

Thanks, I'll try a Live CD first and see how it goes. I appreciate your tip.

 

[10i]

Older hardware poses a problem to newer Linux distro's as well. My newer notebooks run nicely on the latest from Ubuntu but my 2003 HP Compaq NX9010 installs Mint 12.10 but then loads a blank screen. I insert a flash drive to let it call up its file manager, from where I tried to invoke Gnome, but even that failed. It has a Pentium 4 Mobile 2.8GHz CPU, 1GB DDR of which 64GB goes to the ATI Radeon 200 graphics. And I suppose it is the graphics chip that is the culprit? Not an expert view but a novice opinion.

I heard that Lubuntu supports older hardware better than Ubuntu (because it is often used on older hardware too).

hth

 

[ponder]

I heard that Lubuntu supports older hardware better than Ubuntu (because it is often used on older hardware too).

hth

The kernel is the same if I'm not mistaken so support should be the same.

 

[reneg8or]

The kernel is the same if I'm not mistaken so support should be the same.

newe distros may need more graphics capability. Same kernel, different GUI. Lubuntu boots into 57 meg ram while my Ubuntu 11.04 uses 127 meg ram with gnome2. It cannot do unity.

 

[ponder]

newe distros may need more graphics capability. Same kernel, different GUI. Lubuntu boots into 57 meg ram while my Ubuntu 11.04 uses 127 meg ram with gnome2. It cannot do unity.

Ja but what has that got to do with hardware support?

 

[BigAl-sa]

Older hardware poses a problem to newer Linux distro's as well. My newer notebooks run nicely on the latest from Ubuntu but my 2003 HP Compaq NX9010 installs Mint 12.10 but then loads a blank screen. I insert a flash drive to let it call up its file manager, from where I tried to invoke Gnome, but even that failed. It has a Pentium 4 Mobile 2.8GHz CPU, 1GB DDR of which 64GB goes to the ATI Radeon 200 graphics. And I suppose it is the graphics chip that is the culprit? Not an expert view but a novice opinion.

the biggest problem with the nx9010 is that there are no drivers for the graphics chip. I spent months trying to get around that one and eventually swopped the machine for a 6 pack of Windhoek lager. (It was even low range reverse gear slow with XP).

 

[reneg8or]

the biggest problem with the nx9010 is that there are no drivers for the graphics chip. I spent months trying to get around that one and eventually swopped the machine for a 6 pack of Windhoek lager. (It was even low range reverse gear slow with XP).

I had drivers for the ATI directly from HP's website and downloaded a few times. They also had drivers there for Intel graphics as well as for the AGP bus.

My graphics under XP was quite OK when I used those drivers. Without it, lagging was really bad.

 

[reneg8or]

Ja but what has that got to do with hardware support?

Why would I need hardware support other than Linux running super stable on this machine and everything just work rather well.

It was WinXP that was dependant upon extra driver support.