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Saturday, August 22, 2009


          

        









Windows 7 on a Dell Dimension 8300










My wifes cousin's came into town from the lower mainland this week for a visit and through discusions I discovered that it was one of thier childrens birthdays. So we decided to revieve on of my old Pentium 4 ht PC and throw Windows 7 on it for him so he could be the coolest kid in town.

He plays some old school Star Wars games so it should be a good fit for him.

Here are the spec's

  • Pentium 4 3.0 processor
  • Nvidia 6800 GT video card (agp)
  • 80 gb IDE 5400 HDD
  • Sound Blaster 5.1 sound card
  • 17 inch Acer LCD Monitor
  • 2 gb ddr 400 ram
Nice little gift for the young man.
Installing Windows 7 was not all that bad. It went quick with no hiccups.
Once installed the only 2 issues were the old fax modem, which i quickly pulled and tossed in the recycle bin, and the sound card. It took me a few minutes to track down a Vista driver for it and bingo it was up and running. It got a windows rating (whatever that means) 5.2 which is not bad considering my dell laptop (Intel DualCore2 2.4) only gets 4.9.
It actually seems to be a lot quicker then even XP Pro was. It does not like to mullti task too much, more then 3 or 4 programs at once and it start to lag a bit. But for a 5 year old PC it is working very nicely.
Windows 7 seems to be a very nice piece of work.
--KC










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  1. AnonymousNovember 19, 2009 at 9:07 PM
    Please, explain me how I can get that my dimensión´s sound work

    thanks

    musicandres@hotmail.com
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  2. KSCNovember 20, 2009 at 8:53 PM
    Hi, 

    It has been a few months, but as far as I remeber I used this driver download.

    http://www.haikuware.com/directory/start-download/drivers/audio/ich-ac97-driver

    But it has been awhile. It has a intel 875p chip set. So you may have to try a few different ones to make it work.

    Good Luck and let me know if you are still having issues.

    Kyle
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  3. AnonymousJanuary 29, 2010 at 5:03 PM
    Kyle,
    I am in the same boat (Dimension 8300 with newly installed Windows 7) and have been looking on the internet for a working sound card driver for a long time.  The haiku site said the driver was not for Windows.  If you can find the working driver, I'd appreciate it if you could post it here.  Thanks.
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  4. chrispycrunchMarch 4, 2010 at 4:29 PM
    I couldn't even get windows 7 to start installing on the dell 8300.
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  5. manojMarch 4, 2011 at 6:19 PM
    Me too the same problem not able to install the Windows 7 on Dell dimension can anybody help me please
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  6. AnonymousJune 23, 2011 at 10:32 AM
    This is how i got my sound to work.  

    Step 1:  Download the XP driver from the dell website.
    Step 2:  Download and install the program "winrar"
    Step 3:  Right click on the XP driver for you sound card and click on extract to... extract the drivers to a folder. 
    Step 4:  Go start>control panel>Device manager.  Click on sounds, vidoe and games.  
    Step 5:  click on the icon that is showing a yellow warning.  
    Step 6:  Right click on it and go to update driver software. 
    Step 7: click browse my computer for driver.
    Step 8: find the driver you extracted and click next.
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