Acer Aspire 4720Z lacking any SLIC table in BIOS

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  1. Oh-no

    Oh-no MDL Novice

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    #1 Oh-no, Jun 28, 2020
    It seems the BIOS doesn't hold any SLIC table so I can't activate Win 7 Pro and then upgrade to Windows 10 Pro.

    As I've tried both the latest BIOS from Acer, version: 3810, dated 2008/12/08. And one from here created by Gradius.

    Yet both both RW Everything and SLIC ToolKit don't show anything related to SLIC (can't post pictures). What could be preventing the above two BIOS's putting SLIC table in?

    All done on a new hard drive and installed OS.
     
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    #2 Oh-no, Jun 28, 2020 (OP)
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    #3 Enthousiast, Jun 29, 2020
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    It seems to be an old laptop? Why not simply use DAZ' Windows Loader to activate 7 Pro? When it's activated, the upgrade to 10 Pro will still give a free HWID.

    Or just upgrade to, or clean install, win 10 pro and google for massgravel and generate a hwid?
     
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    #4 Oh-no, Jun 29, 2020 (OP)
    Thank you for the advice. Laptop was manufactured August 2007.

    I'm looking at Microsoft Toolkit v2.6.4 now to activate W7 Pro.
     
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    #5 Enthousiast, Jun 29, 2020
    For an upgrade to 10 and get a free HWID just use DAZ Windows Loader, and never use an abandoned old not updated and no longer supported KMS tool like mtk264, use KMS_VL_ALL and you will have full support.
     
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    #6 kaljukass, Jun 29, 2020
    @Oh-no
    Can I ask what processor is there and what RAM and how much and what graphics.
     
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    Oh-no MDL Novice

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    #7 Oh-no, Jun 29, 2020 (OP)
    Intel Pentium T2410 at 2.00 Ghz
    2GB DDR2 RAM (Type 6400 I think)

    Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
    8MB of dedicated system RAM
    Up to 350MB of shared system RAM
     
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    #8 kaljukass, Jun 29, 2020
    Thanks, seems You can install W10, but...
    another question - can you add RAM that would be at least 3GB but better if you can add that would be 4GB?
    it means, 2GB is obviously too little, but often more than 3GB can't be installed on these old computers. And even if You can instal more, the maximum usable is usually something about 2.87GB. The old motherboards usually won't allow more.
     
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    #10 kaljukass, Jul 3, 2020
    In this case, it is quite pointless to install any Windows 10 there, because even x86 takes up all the RAM and if you will use any web browser, it also uses not less than 600-800 MB.
    The result is that there is no way to open anything with this computer, not even when using the new generation SSD, because there is only SATAII available, not SATAIII.
    So only Linux remains, that may work somehow ...
     
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    #11 Nimbus2000, Jul 3, 2020
    I believe that while you may be able to install Windows 10 on that old computer, it will be painfully slow. Have you considered another operating system that is better suited to older hardware?