*opens start menu* CPU: 100% Usage Memory: 100% Usage Disk Activity: 0%

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My mom works in IT and she used to bring home these latitudes all the time, I remember the shell/formfactor. These were awesome with XP running. Great video dude!

This guy: *bored and hurried* “I accept all your... whatever” Bill Gates: “Behold! The ideal customer!”

When he says that laptop has 160 MB of RAM, 20-year-old me's (from the mid-90's) voice in my head chimed in with "shit, that's a lot of memory" lol. :)

Return next week when he tries to install Mac OSX on a Commodore Vic 20.

"Can you install Windows 10 on a Pentium II?" The channel name: "no"

"It was so advanced for the time they named it after a vegetable"

That RAM might just be new old stock, could have a ton sitting in a warehouse in China that never sold before it became obsolete.

No it doesnt. He tests a Celeron instead and that doesn't work so he tests a Pentium 3. That doesn't work so he tests another newer Celeron. That doesn't work so he tries another Celeron and it finally works. Saved you 45 min :)

While the memory you purchased was probably salvaged, because of how memory is produced at the EOL there are always large stockpiles of unsold memory left to the manufacturer or OEMs. So despite not being produced in more than a decade, you can still fine brand new dimms

I really like the concept of installing a os on a unsupported device, I would love to see you doing the reverse tough, installing older versions of windows on newer cpus like 7gen up that would be cool, but I guess it would be a lot more expensive to buy newer hardware

Oh, also, the Dell C510/C610 is one of my favorite laptops of all time. Super easy to work on, very modular, and so many options! I loved the dual battery bay/optical/floppy choices. I could take one apart and put it back together in under 30 minutes! I swear, those things got me thru a few years without a desktop... I had gotten about a dozen broken ones from my high school, and was able to recover enough working parts to build 3 full laptops. I kept swapping parts until I ended up with the husk of one, no keyboard or casings or covers or batteries, just acting like a desktop. Times were hard. Thankfully now I have a shiny hodgepodge of modern parts.

Putting Windows 10 on such an old system is like trying to put an automatic transmission and power steering in a model T.

"We're gonna go one by one..." Windows Vista gets skipped. Vista: Am I a joke to you? (...yes.)

I've been building/repairing/upgrading PC's since the IBM XP and AT computers... And I can verify from my own experience that the best way to turn an older working PC into a boat anchor is to try and upgrade it to the next operating system. Every "easy" OS upgrade I was ever involved in left me with a pile of cards and parts left over that the upgraded OS didn't have drivers for, assuming that the motherboard and CPU tolerated the upgrade. Secondly... every upgrade always required more memory than the previous operating system used to do nearly anything. Half the time the new OS ran at half speed on the old hardware, even with twice the memory. For example, I upgraded a Dos PC up through Windows 2000 and all it took was 3 motherboards w cpu's about a dozen memory modules 1 add on HD controller board 3 video cards 1 power supply after the original fried out 2 optical drives 1 updated sound card 4 network cards 5 HDDs 3 sets of network cables Not to mention 4 OS install sets... And I'm sure I missed something... So why do it? Because I couldn't get the funding for a new PC for my desk, but I could order parts... So it was easier to just upgrade than order a new PC... But in any real world, I spent more time and lost more hair doing OS upgrades for my PC and various other PC's around the office than it was ever worth aside from the learning experience. And I'm not even going to go into the software that breaks when you upgrade a PC, nor the strange intermittent glitches that upgraded PC's are prone to... If you have a PC that works well, never upgrade the OS, if you know what's good for you.

31:00 There, saved you 2/3 of the video.

Can you install Windo̶ws 10 on a ̶P̶e̶n̶t̶i̶u̶m̶ ̶I̶I̶? ̶C̶e̶l̶e̶r̶o̶n̶ ̶I̶I̶? ̶P̶e̶n̶t̶i̶u̶m̶ ̶I̶I̶I̶? Celeron M?

I have a Lenovo 3000 C200 from 2006, which was very closely related to the thinkpads. It has a celeron m430 at 1.73Ghz, 512 MB DDR2 667MHz RAM, GMA 950 integrated graphics. I kid you not in one go, it successfully installed Windows 10 flawlessly and was running it natively. Needless to slay I was a very sluggish experience but it was running natively! PS-great video!

16:47 Thats IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL

CD is limiting? I remember when CD meant very fast install times. My goodness.

Extremely underrated KZfaqr. You earned my sub! Well done, impressed with the effort you put into this!

The oldest computer I've gotten Windows 10 to run on is a 2006 Dell Latitude, don't remember specifics but I used it heavily from 2015-2019. I don't remember having to do anything weird or hacky with it, so it must have just been barely on the edge of bare minimum spec. Ran like a champ too, I replaced the HDD with an SSD and upgraded the RAM and that thing was plenty speedy.

This totally reminds me of the time my Dad upgraded his PC to Windows 8. Crashed the whole thing! 😅

The hardware is from the bad old days when Windows needed a lot of special driver support from the manufacturers, especially laptops. There were a lot of "standards" like PnP that were in flux and hardware makers were not really doing a good job of making sure they complied. Sony was a huge offender in this regard, relying instead on their in-house devs to write custom drivers for Windows, as they always sold their laptops pre-installed with Windows. I remember wiping a Sony I had that required me to go to the Sony support site and download all kinds of drivers and custom install crap to get Windows to install. Same with Thinkpads, though not quite as bad in most cases.

That last computer not installing Win 10 was odd. I installed 10 on a T43p just fine, no hacks involved. Edit: Turns out the oldest ThinkPad that you can install Win 10 on is the T43.

Seeing windows 10 not quite run but at least "exist" using 512mb of ram makes me far more confident about a cheap build I'm about to do, great video!

I really enjoyed this video. I was really hoping to see windows 10 run on those laptops, but it was fun watching. And you actually got it working on another laptop. Pretty cool.

For a light weight installation that works well with older PCs, installing Windows 10 LTSB usually works well with older PCs due to its smaller profile

My Pentium 2 destroyed all my friends Celeron's in games. I hated Celeron's they were such garbage

Always the extreme 'life support' measures to use these ancient machines. Amazing. Even if it does work it will take forever to do even the most basic function.

I still have my 12yo Thinpad X200 Tablet and it's working just fine! i upgraded the hard disk to a 200GB one, but i bring it to work at school every day, i had it as a kid and it's absolutley gorgeous

Do a video about the strange underground Windows 2000 mod community. They've made major compatibility enhancements and even entire service packs.

Windows 10 (and Windows 8.1) requires a CPU that supports the NX bit, which means a later Pentium 4, or an Athlon 64 or later.

I believe I had that more recent ThinkPad model back in the day! I didn't bother to upgrade it from XP, as I got a new computer with Vista. Also, I'm impressed that Windows 10 runs on that last computer, given that Asus didn't even bother shipping it with the then-current version of Windows (Vista).

Colin : its hard to beat 7$ Me : hold my 4$

"this machine is 10 years old" I think it's quite a bit older than that

The Windows 7 installation says it needs 512 MB RAM, yet the minimum system requirements say 1GB. This is why you can't trust system requirements.

One of my fav vids to ever be made on this site. Watched this full about 20 times by now!

Short answer: probably yes but it will be slower than running minecraft with 10kb of ram

Nostalgia hardware porn my favourite

Did this really need to be 45 min? Edit: for all the people saying that it had to be that long,the science elf did a video on restoring a windows xp tablet,guess how long the video was? 8:30 fucking minutes,and everything was perfectly explained another edit: jesus christ stop replying i dont have that much time to reply xd,just ya know..if you share my opinion,like the comment,if not,no need to comment last fucking edit i swear: JESUS PEOPLE ARE STILL REPLYING WHAT DID I GET MYSELF INTO

Celeron was designed as low end. I bought a running T61 Thinkpad on eBay and it’s beautiful.

I'm banking on ReactOS to revive all my old hardware. Running windows software on older hardware without the drama of a microsoft oriented setup system, and with the fact that ReactOS has a lot different requirements (the project is aiming to support windows NT 5.1 hardware and work from there) while maintaining the cross compatibility for older hardware which will be so good for people like us; trying to keep using old hardware while running newer software.

i have that exact eeepc. bought it on pre-order... was quickly letdown by the inability to expand storage... :/

how about going the other way? how does Windows 98 run on a modern machine?

24:24 What device did you use to capture that video? VGA to usb?

You have a cat?

I installed Win 10 on my Acer Aspire One Netbook but it ran so slow I replaced it with Linux Mint.

42:40 this pc runs gta 5 in 4k 60 fps

Great Effort Man! Sometimes I wish those older operating systems were still around on newer architecture! First computer I ever got was a Compaq Presario with Windows 98 SE, I regret selling the older computers I used to have. I currently have Windows 8.1 on my 7 year old machine I bought in 2015 Brand New, now I can't even afford a newer machine with Windows 11 Pro, if Walmart would've had layaway, yet might still took me longer to pay the cash price, hard living off a social security check and these bills took me over at the bank years ago and I have never recovered. Scam artists also ruint things for me, now I don't even believe people really believe what I say is true, makes me want to cry! You Have A Great Blessed Day and Night!

I mean i grew up using a pentium 3/4... but that BIOS @7:15 really shows the age of that system, more than the hardware specs themselves. Nowadays a normal user has so much control over the behaviour of a system, it's incredible. This video is immensly fascinating, subbed!

Regarding the P4 CPU thing. The P4 was a marketing tool in the midst of the Hz wars. The P4 managed to hit some seriously high clock speeds, but the real life experience was poor. Long story short, Intel used a lot of clever techniques (such as branch prediction) to improve matters. Then the focus of the PR shifted from Hertz to Watts. Energy efficiency was now important. Intel went back to the P3 architecture, but retrofitted all the clever stuff they needed to make the P4 usable. The result? The amazing Core architecture. Very efficient and incredibly real-world quick.

Commenters, please watch the video before making comments - he specifically covers many of your complaints in the video. PAE, SSE2/3, NX? Yeah, he covers all that. Boot from USB flash drive? Yeah, he covers that.

If I remember right, it's not too hard to hack in custom display modes into display drivers. I think it's just a matter of adding a few lines to an .inf file for the custom resolution you want.

I really appriciate your effort and yeah I am not learn something but I learnt a lot of knowledge here. Thank you very much.

Those old first gen celerons had *no* L2 cache, which made a big impact on their performance, which is why intel made their later celerons with 128k.

I am sure that the device manager on Windows 10 will be full of unknown devices. Those are from another planet devices for Windows 10.

Windows 2000 would run great on that Thinkpad. Win2k can even run XP programs with a little hacking. The perfect OS for it would be "Haiku" it's a very lightweight and fast OS. It's is still in beta, but development has increased rapidly and a Stable release is not many years away at this pace.

i am installing windows 10 on a hackintosh within macos on a virtual machine whilst watching this, loved the video, lessons were learned...

Most underrated channel on KZfaq this guy easily deserves a million of subscribers.

maybe when they say the ram is brand new is because it's never been used

Spending more than 30 minutes just to fail installing Windows 10

I really enjoy these retro journeys!!

Netbooks like the EeePC where never meant to be laptops, Colin. They where meant to be internet devices that only needed minimal, cheap hardware but so many people couldn’t grasp the concept and demanded Windows on them that they very quickly ramped up in power but also ramped up in price, much to the chagrin of those of us who actually wanted cheap internet devices and not inconveniently mini laptops.

There is a difference between windows 8 and windows 8.1. Windows 8 will work on older hardware. Good luck on finding a Windows 8 iso.

I've installed windows on thousands of computers. Started my business 7 years ago and have installed windows 10 more than any other. I got it to work on a Vista computer once. Oddly got all drivers to work except the video driver where I had to use a windows 8 version of the driver.

Had the video playing in the background and the mention of the C610 really caught me, my first computer was a D610.

THANK YOU THINKPAD

I also had a room mate who uses one of those asus netbooks as a daily driver. He acts like it’s expensive. Lol

That dell lattitude was very similar to my first computer though I'm not sure if it's the exact model. Mine had 512 megs of ram, a 30 gig hdd, and a dvd reader and writer. It ran XP and I have super fond memories of it. I wish I knew what processor it had. I played tons of ROMs of it as well as Microsoft flight sim 2003. I still have it somewhere, unfortunately the screen is cracked though.

According to my research (via trial and error lol): It turns out that the oldest processor that can support Windows 10 is the Intel Pentium M (Dothan), which was made in 2005. Anything older (Pentium 4 included) can only support up to Windows 7. Also, for you to enjoy Windows 10 on the Pentium M, you need to have a graphics card that has a Microsoft WDDM driver written for it (ATI Mobility Radeon, Nvidia GeForce Go, etc).

Right when Microsoft was pushing free upgrades of Windows 10, I experimented with this quite a bit. I tried every trick I could up through a Pentium 4 with no success. But I did have a Dell Latitude with a Dothan processor, and the Win X pushed without any issues, but that machine was LIMITED to only using the generic display driver, never found a way around that.

I ran into the same issue when I was trying to install Windows 8 on an old Sony Vaio laptop about 7 or 8 years ago when I was 11 years old and had nothing better to do. The system had an Intel Pentium single core 1.7 Ghz CPU, 512MB of RAM, and an 80GB hard drive. It came with Windows XP, but it ran Windows 7 32 bit just fine. I couldn't get Windows 8 to install for the same reasons though. I tried all the workarounds I could find, but nothing worked.

I remember having installed WinXp on a fully fledged PII 350Mhz with 256Mb RAM as requested by a customer of the computer shop I was the technician of a pair of decades ago. It took the best of three hours and was continental drift slow in booting up afterwards but the paying customer (because like hell we'd have done it without a compensation) was happy nonetheless at the end. 😁

could the think pad be a screen resolution issue, the staring windows looks off center and the progress bar missing, did u try putting it in safe mode and running it at a 640x480 screen resolution?

Speaking of Celeron overclocking. This machine is from the era where the early Celerons came to the market. With models such as the 266, 300, and 333, but also the legendary C300A that could overclock way above double it's base clockspeed. The thing with the Celerons was that though the cache was half or even a quarter of the size that the Pentiums used, it ran at full speed. So in many cases, an overclocked Celeron 300A could be on par with or even beat out a similarly clocked Pentium II

I still have a celeron and use it. It is a Intel Celeron J1800 With 4 GB Ram, and 500 GB hard drive space. It is outdated, and i have had it for over 3 years. It originally came with windows 8, but i did a free windows 10 upgrade in 2015, and i use it actively to this day, only had to format it once, due to malware and constant blue screening, but it still works, but it could be better

Love this kind of videos, last month I installed windows 10 64 bits on a 2007 Acer Extenza with a pentium II, 2 GB of DDR2 and an SSD, stupid build, but I love it

Very interesting. I upgraded my netbook from 2009 with Windows 7 Starter and Intel Atom to Windows 10 for interest. However, it was no longer really possible to work with it.

People used to complain about Vista but after my old PC's floppy died, there was no way to install the sata drivers. Even slipstreaming didn't work for me. My only choice was to install Vista and it was fine. The only fix I had to do was prevent Vista from installing the onboard nVidia audio drivers. That caused a bluescreen. Installed some drivers that avoided that chip. It was a far better experience than XP in my opinion.

P2 don't even have VT-x… or SSE4… Which is require for W10

It can be installed and make the system work using O.S upgrade from former versions into quite new Windows 10 as the SPECS speaks the abilities and juice it can provide to power the whole computer and the system. It can also be having 2 ,types of O.S since the harddrive and Speed of the cycle can make it work continuously similar to the Core 2 duos or other DDR3, DDR4 and some of the rest of the Pentium as well as the other brands. Integration of the Video cards and upgrades afterwards for most processing, gaming and excel files. The spindles are designed to last for a lifetime, just have to place and protect it always make the hard and software tangible standards last. SMEs........respectively.

Thank you very much for your time, I was just about to try installing Windows 10 on my old Pentium III tualatin to give it a new life, but seeing the situation... I suspect the final result.

I have an Acer Aspire One from about 2008 with 1GB of RAM that I was able to install Windows 10 without the need for any additional drivers. Everything worked upon installation. It's obscenely slow, but once booted, I can satisfactorily run Pandora in the browser for a web audio player, but doing anything else with it would probably make me want to launch it across the yard.

Hey Collin! I live in the Minneapolis area, and volunteer at Free Geek Twin Cities every Saturday! I'd love to see you there someday if you could!

I got a packerd bell pc from 2003 with a almost stock configuration: Intel celeron 2.4ghz, 320gb seagate hdd (was upgraded from a 40gb WD), cd-dvd-floppy drives, 256mb ram and a trust 5.1 surround sound soundcard. It's epic how fast it's for 2003

How did you create bootmgr on the sd card on the asus?

I respect your determination and work you put into this. Nice job!

I'd imagine that "new" RAM is actually new old stock, never used before but kept in storage for many years.

You'll never know how I was excited for it but the price and age killed it

My shit pc: *gets forced onto windows 10* Also my shit pc: 👁💧👄💧👁

you have soo much patience I couldn't spend that much time and be sooo calm with soo many failure o_0 good video by the way

He does have a point...when I was in jr. high, my dad built a Pentium III 600MhZ for his personal home desktop, and for mine he bought a Carleton 400MHz because it was really the time period between when AMD K6-2 3D Now Technology had reached its highest point (550MHz), Pentium II’s were out of production, the AMD Athalon K7 hadn’t yet been released, so there was Pentium III’s and Celerons were all of a sudden in the mix, so I got the 400 MHz Celeron and I built it with an Asus Motherboard, Ram at that time wasn’t much, 1gb RAM was an astronomical pipe-dream at that time (like 1997 or 1998) I had a Voodoo 2 16MB Graphic Card (which I upgraded to a 1st gen ATi Radeon 128mb DDR Graphics card which was incredible, but buggy AF because it was a Prototype or Engineering one of the Electrical Engineers my dad worked with at the time had somehow ended up with & he was like a 60 year-old guy at the time and didn’t really have a use for a video card like that) , Sound Blaster 16, 10/100 local area network card, 56K 3COM modem which my father bought, took out to the parking lot of a Comp USA, switched the board inside the same plastic housing from US Robotics 28.8bps modem, screwed it back together, put it back into its box, took me by the hand back into the store, returned the 56K modem (with the 28.8 bps modems printed circuit board inside of it), got his money back and then explained to me “US Robotics sold me that 28.8 modem under the premise that it would be upgradable to 56K when the time came, then 3COM bought US Robotics, and it wasn’t ever upgradable, but the first batch of 3COM 56K modems we’re in the same white plastic case, so I took it upon myself to upgrade it myself... fast-forward to 2016, I met a woman with whom I fell in love (and vice-versa) the time came for our parents to meet...my dad an Electrical Engineer at the time for a company in Worcester, MA... her dad - Retired Electrical Engineer who worked for 3COM right at that time, so my dad tells her dad this story, and her dad started laughing his ass off, saying “that modem got sent back to us!! It got put on my bench!! Opened it up and said “this has a US Robotics marked circuitboard in it from a years before the marked manufacturing date on the sticker on the bottom of the modem!!” My original point being LOL, I overclocked the living F outta my 400MHz Celeron CPU I was running it at over 1 GHz

I well remember my Netbook with Windows XP. I got it bundled with a phone contract extension, and it ran for years before I bought a Surface and gave the Netbook to a friend whose laptop had been stolen. He got quite a bit more use from it before it finally went into well-deserved retirement 🙂.

The main difference between a Celeron and a full Pentium two or Pentium III class CPU was that the Celeron had less on processor cache. Also sometimes they run at 66 MHz frontside bus instead of 100 or 133. Also, instead of using a compact flash card, it’s better to use an mSATA to 44-pin IDE adapter. Stick with around 32GB or less. Better than CF for an OS install - Speaking from experience

Cheers from a fellow Twin Cities nerd. This makes me want to fire up my old Thinkpad T-20.

What Thinkpad model is it? The T43 or T43p (anyone knows the difference) which they say is the last one made by IBM itself. Thanks.

Core 2 quads have issues getting setup with Windows 10 due to lack of instruction sets. Is always interesting to see people's efforts and work arounds though

Pentium III 450 (model number = MHz) was faster than Celeron 700, so much about not much difference. The size of L2 cache alone is crucial difference. Additionally, Celeron/Celeron A had no SSE, PIII had it.