Let's run Win10 on really really old hardware

bobjoe said:

Specifications on the Eee PCs and the DM4 please?

Apologies - the Eee PC 1015PX is actually on v1803. But running fine.

The HP Pavilion DM4-1150ea had a clean install of v1809 and has been running perfectly for some weeks. Core i5 M450 2.40 Ghz, 8GB ram, SSD.

Has anyone allowed 1903 to update on an atom N570 yet?

Hazel123 said:

Has anyone allowed 1903 to update on an atom N570 yet?

I've just installed 1903 x86 on an atom N550 (Samsung NF310. 2gb ram). It's fine, no problems whatsoever, YouTube ok, etc. So your slightly faster N570 should be ok.
I'm trying to find a way to increase the ram from the stated max of 2gb. Does anyone know if that's possible?

I've tried a 4 gig but not sure if it's the right type of memory (Hynix 1 X 4GB 1Rx8 PC3-12800S-11-11-B2 DDR3).

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It didn't boot up.

Thought so. Thanks Thomas; very much appreciated. What an interesting thread this is! I've learned so much from it and it's enheartening to see you all pursuing this just for the love of it, a love that I've only recently discovered in myself through little netbooks.

since 1809 worked on an old D101GGC board using a hyperthreaded Intel Pentium 4 Prescott (524) cpu, (tested that months ago), it seems the 1903 version works too (mobo has onboard ATI Xpress 200 graphics - barely wddm capable; can only use up to 2Gb ram max)

thomaseg1 said:

Then your limited to 2 gigs, sorry .
DDR3 PC3-12800 is the right type.
I have the same problem with my Acer 150 wouldn't boot with a 4 gig.
you can speed up the system a bit with sd card set for ready boost.

I was surprised to see that when watching youtube videos (Formula 1) Ram usage never exceeds 80%, whereas cpu usage is often hitting 99%. Perhaps the 2gb max Ram is not what's limiting performance on my nf310!!

Hello!

I just upgraded an Acer Extensa from Windows 10 Pro v1809 to v1903. Specs are Intel Core 2 Duo T7250, 4GB RAM, Intel 4 Graphics etc. Not really an old computer, but I wanted to share my experience. First of all, graphics work with Microsoft Basic Display Adapter, while on next Windows Update I should see Intel 4 Graphics family. It had done it in previous upgrades, so I don't worry, just run Windows Update to install the driver. I also tried to run Customizer God to change the system icons to those of Windows 8.1 but I saw that in file imageres.dll there were too many changes in the icons that I could not simply select them all and replace, as I always do. This displayed an error at some point and changed some of the icons while others were corrupted. I had to go in Command Prompt as Administrator and run the following to restore the original icons:

sfc /scannow

So far I haven't seen any remarkable differences, apart that some settings in Windows Update like pause for 7 days etc. If I find anything else, I'll let you know.