I have an acer laptop and a desktop here that both said no to video drivers.
Desktop easy, get a new video card. Not so easy with the laptop. However
removing the drivers put the laptop on windows drivers and they updated ok.
What will stop you is the processor. It needs to be minimum P4 D (intel
wise) and I have a machine with a processor prior to that. I could upgrade
the processor but that means motherboard as well. Plus I still dont know if
the video card will work. All in all not worth the bother for an old
desktop. Plus some things stopped working with 8, like bluesky's html help.
Not tried with 10 yet.
So don't give up just yet on the PC, it could be as simple as removing the
drivers. One note though, the check seems to be a monthly thing. So even
changing the drivers or card will not show up. In that case use the media
tool. It will download and install windows 10. Don't do ISO, my sister did
and it said her windows ID was wrong.
Al
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Roche
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 4:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NF] Why Windows 10 Sucks..
It might not, the machine is at least 8 years old, a Dell Workstation
(Optiplex 745) with an oddball ATI card. Took forever to find a driver
on the internet and get it working, and I'm pretty sure it was an
ancient driver.
The Windows 10 setup prompts something like "let's check if your
machine is compatible" and reports it is not.
I'm sure I could get it limping along with generic SVGA drivers or
something. Or I could just pick up a whiz-bang recent card from NewEgg
for $33 or so. And RAM. And a new big HDD. Or I could just retire the
machine :)
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Paul Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
On 18 August 2015 at 15:25, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote:
I have an old, old graphics card in one Windows 8.1 machine that will
likely never be supported, but the icon still hangs around.
It will probably work fine. The driver model hasn't changed in ages
(Vista?).
After upgrading you have 1 month to roll back.
YMMV. Make a backup :-)
>From personal experience it works great.
--
Paul
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