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Want to upgrade a Dell 2400 Series to Windows 10
I am working on my uncle's desktop, preparing to upgrade the OS. This is still an XP machine. It's a workhorse and still running after 12 years.
It is a Dell 2400 series desktop.
The hardware requirements for Windows 10 are as follows:
Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC
RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2GB for 64-bit
Hard disk space: 16GB for 32-bit OS or 20GB for 64-bit OS
Graphics card: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
Display: 800-by-600 resolution
The process exceeds the minimum. It is 2.66 GHz
I upgraded the RAM 6 years ago to to 2GB.
The hard drive is 80 GB.
So far so good.
I have no idea if the graphics card meets the requirement though. Under devices I found Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller. Is this what I need to check?
Would a machine purchased in 2004 have a compatible card to the standard listed above?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bryon
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March 14th, 2016 08:00
The 13 year old pentium 4 processor will not run Windows 8 or 8.1 or 10 because it does not have the following
EM64T * Supports 64-bit mode
NX * Supports no-execute page protection
PAE * Supports > 32-bit physical addresses
SSE2 * Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
SSE3 * Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
CX16 * Supports CMPXCHG16B instruction
LAHF-SAHF * Supports LAHF/SAHF instructions in 64-bit mode
PREFETCHW * Supports PREFETCHW instruction
This is not EVER happening.
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March 14th, 2016 22:00
It will run Windows 7, but nothing later, unless you upgrade the motherboard, CPU and memory.
ASRock makes a good budget motherboard that fits in the 2400 chassis, and used quad-core CPUs can be found on eBay.