Windows 10 Rs1 Insider Preview 32bit on old laptops 2Gb RAM

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  1. Bat.1

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    Didn't work :weep: Get message best driver already installed :g:Maybe I had tried it before :confused: Old Timers Sucks :weep:
     
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    #22 makin.ditch, Jul 16, 2016
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    Nope, unless it says it's 501, it's not. Right-click on the Radeon 200, properties -> hardware id, copy and paste that for me, maybe google was wrong, also....
    To install the driver ... reight-click on the Radeon 200 -> update driver -> browse my computer -> let me pick -> have disk -> browse -> go to folder where you extracted the driver and select that first *.inf file make sure you download the 8.2 Mb version for 32 bit, not the larger 16 Mb.
     
  3. Bat.1

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    #23 Bat.1, Jul 16, 2016
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    Running a sfc scan right now so it'll be a long time. But there ain't no inf file in there :confused:

    This thing was slow :( now it's even slower. :weep: Like REALLY REALLY SLOW compared to 10586 :death:

    EDIT: Well I was thinking of trying to use the Digital License on another PC anyway, so Now I have a great excuse to pester M$ that I had to upgrade my components because the 2GB RAM requirement turned My PC into a potato :p
     
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    #24 makin.ditch, Jul 16, 2016
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    okay, the file you downloaded. It started with X86 for the file name, right? (Not AMDX64).
    You didn't get no errors when extracting it?
    Once extracted it you should have a folder with a whole bunch of CL_xxxxx.cat and CL_xxxxx.inf files and another folder in there named B_72960 or something like that.
    If you got any errors when extracting it, rename the file some short name. X86 or something like that and try extracting it again. They give it really long names and sometimes you can get errors extracting because of the really long names.
    That driver you installed before, was it still installed? If it was pre-Windows 7 it may have been uninstalled when you upgraded today. Is it still named properly in device manager or is it back to that awful generic driver. That could slow the entire system down.
     
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  6. Bat.1

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    Well it really doesn't matter anymore. That Thing just ain't gonna run on the RAM that's in it o_O Guess I'll sleep on the decision on rolling it back or just installing Linux. Thing is Win 10 out-performed every flavor I tried :( Cam girls will have to wait :weep:
     
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    #28 makin.ditch, Jul 16, 2016
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    Ya, I was thinking of either installing cublinux and giving it to a friends daughter whose school wants her to use Chromium or else installing Ubuntu and the Google docs/LibreOffice packages for the same reason. May be able to get Kodi running then as well? Haha. That would keep me busy.
    Anyways. Need to go load up my truck, drive 12 hours to work tomorrow :)
    Ha, maybe dual boot it. Have my choice. Win 10 or else Ubuntu. :clap:
     
  8. Wolfano

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    I have used Windows 10 insider preview x64 till 10240 on my old Core 2 Duo E4600, 2GB RAM PC. I doesn't find any problem.
     
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    Im running Win 10 on Windows 2 go on a 1 gig ram PC (well 895 meg usable). Programs that come with Windows work perfect, but once you try to open anything else up, it SLOWS down like crazy. Basic Windows only uses around 400 megs of ram. So really it can run, but once you open any program, your PC will REALLY slow down and even act like its frozen.
     
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    It is strange. Fortunately, there's an explanation at that MSDN site:

    In other words, the article is intended for OEMs and not the public at large.

    Those guidelines will be forthcoming, and it's a good bet you won't see 2GB in it.
     
  12. Bat.1

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    #33 Bat.1, Jul 17, 2016
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    Slept on it and decided it might just have been a Crap upgrade even though sfc didn't show any errors :g: So try one more time and if I have the same problem I'll do a reset install. o_O It's just so slow all this will take all day :(

    Update: Yea it was a bad upgrade :mad: But when trying to open a folder Freezes the PC at 100% CPU for several minutes, it was easy to give up :eek: Noticeably faster than 10586 :g: but that ain't saying much :p
     
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