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Dell Dimension 8300 Upgrade to Windows 7 from XP
After installing a new internal 2T hard-drive, installing 4G ram, uploading the old XP OS (32bit), all Dell drivers, and updating Windows, I thought I was ready to upgrade to Windows 7. However, Microsoft says don't install it unless Dell confirms that my system will run it. Dell has no answer after hours of being transferred from one dept to another.
Bios date is 9/2004
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU, 3.0 GHz
There are no drivers listed for Windows 7 under the Drivers & Download support page for this model.
I understand that Dell won't support Win 7 after it's loaded.
I've seen a few posts where people are running Win7 on older computers. Do I need to upgrade anything else?
My appreciation for your thoughts,
speedstep
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December 15th, 2015 12:00
Radeon 7500 is not even directx 9 card so there will be no drivers for 7.
NinjaUnmatched
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December 15th, 2015 16:00
The XP drivers worked but you have to grab drivers from tue dell site. ATI has some newer ones but while installed the PC drivers jist kept crashing.
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December 15th, 2015 16:00
No wait correction I grabbed the drivers from the Microsoft Update Catalog
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December 15th, 2015 17:00
I did that. (Not new to this game) the driver crashesanywhere from a lil bit to constantly
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December 15th, 2015 17:00
7500 all in wonder is same but also different. More aspects that get installed. All the TV ***...
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December 15th, 2015 17:00
Just force a win 7 driver or use a Vista driver..
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