win 7 on old laptop

[spondulick]

got an old laptop (toshiba satellite a50),which is mainly used by the wife for facebook 1.70 mhz processor and 1.2 gig of ram which i am going to upgrade to 2 gig. am thinking of trying to run win 7 on this unit but no drivers are supplied or(available from toshiba website) according to compatibility scan from windows it reports i may have an issue with my current wireless network adapter. (intel(r) pro/wireless 220bg) has anyone tried this upgrade or is using it now,any help would be much appreciated.

[Shady]

not tried it but intel says no support for that wifi for win7..tbh..win7 may run like a dog on that setup

[spondulick]

thanks for feedback, may try out of curiosity if no go will revert back to good old xp.then again might be worth it just to upset the wife!

[Strykerforce]

got an old laptop (toshiba satellite a50),which is mainly used by the wife for facebook 1.70 mhz processor and 1.2 gig of ram which i am going to upgrade to 2 gig. am thinking of trying to run win 7 on this unit but no drivers are supplied or(available from toshiba website) according to compatibility scan from windows it reports i may have an issue with my current wireless network adapter. (intel(r) pro/wireless 220bg) has anyone tried this upgrade or is using it now,any help would be much appreciated.

Some hardware installed in Old Laptops with XP OS experiencing driver compatibility when upgrading to WIN7 OS.

[dazza1979]

You'll most likely have problems with video driver - which you won't be able to play videos / view image content, there maybe a modded driver that will work, but aero would be disabled, which i think you could live with.

[spondulick]

yeah, did load onto a desktop with an old amd barton proc no sound drivers. managed to get one to work after a while but only after the trial and error approach can't remember which it was i found.

[Canker_Canison]

Some driver problems can be resolved by using Vista drivers.

Worked on my brothers internal SD card reader.

[mtv1]

i've bin there m8 no good will come of it win xp is the new 7 in fact the last version of xp is almost identical to the first 7 i have reverted back to xp on me kids lappys as the mouse wouldn't work the wifi wouldn't work drove me bonkers . Toshiba Driver-Toshiba Laptop: Toshiba Satellite A50 Drivers your drivers are here m8 as for upgrading the ram waste of money as the processor can't run that fast

[zgembo]

Just try, you might be surprised how well w7 could run :-)

[daithi]

any hassle with the wifi
just buy the wireless usb adapter on ebay eBay.ie: MINI 802.11N 11N WIFI WIRELESS USB ADAPTER LAN NETWORK (item 200602558056 end time 28-May-11 14:32:52 BST)