SOLVED Windows 8 & older pc's

Xtreme Barton

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• Nov 7, 2012

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what do you think the chances are of older pc's getting some love with drivers ?


im kicking myself in the but for thinking I would be ok installing this on an older pc. Family friend asked to fresh his pc up. So me and my bright ideas installed 8 on it only to find out no video controller driver installed (not even generic) .. just a big yellow triangle


Id hate to bump him back to xp sp3 ... maybe I need to except the fact and do that ..but its hard

 

Janus67

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• Nov 7, 2012

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how old we talking? if there are windows 7 drivers available you can try those.

 

benbaked

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• Nov 7, 2012

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How old is this PC? What kind of video card does it have? Looks like nvidia has cut support in Windows 8 for everything FX and earlier. ATi/AMD has cut support for everything X1000-series and older.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows-8-solutions.html
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU119Win8GPUDriverSupport.aspx

 

TeknoBug

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• Nov 8, 2012

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OMG people still talk about Nvidia FX* cards? God they were horrible, at least the FX5900 I had was. My ATI X700Pro and X1650Pro cards were better.

I have an old spare PC, I think Athlon II X2 or Sempron with a 9800GT, that'll be fun to boot up and toy with.

 

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• Nov 8, 2012

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TeknoBug said:

OMG people still talk about Nvidia FX* cards? God they were horrible, at least the FX5900 I had was. My ATI X700Pro and X1650Pro cards were better.

I have an old spare PC, I think Athlon II X2 or Sempron with a 9800GT, that'll be fun to boot up and toy with.

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FX5900 (or at least the 5950) was the best of the GeForce FX series.
That couldn't have been that bad, even if not as good as a 6800.
But, I heard that FX5600 was awful. FX5200 and FX5500 was the worst in my book.

I think a Radeon 9000 Pro and Radeon 9600 SE was worse.

GeForce 7-series are worse in my book, for typically being plagued with "FZ" caps.

 

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Xtreme Barton

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• Nov 11, 2012

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dell gx280

 

hafa

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• Nov 15, 2012

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Have you tried the Windows 7 driver for the Intel 82865G? That's the integrated video in the spec.

1GB RAM = painful experience in 8...

 

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• Nov 19, 2012

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hafa said:

Have you tried the Windows 7 driver for the Intel 82865G? That's the integrated video in the spec.

1GB RAM = painful experience in 8...

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Ive been loading myself up with projects and really I dont want to make such and old pc one of them any longer ...

xp with sp3 will be installed ..