Took me weeks, but I finally got Windows 7 running, albeit slowly, on a machine I built back in 2000 or 2001, a PIII 866 MHz, with 512K RAM. Running it on 2nd HDD with dual boot setup (Have XP Pro on C drive, WIN 7 on D Drive. Had no DVD drive, but was able to use a free virtual clone drive program on win 7 forum post to install--although I had to first delete all partitions, reinstall both XP and then reformat and install win7 on D drive. Installation was about an hour. Video card, and older ATI Radeon with 64 MB of old video ram seems not able to handle the finer aspects of the display, but still looks pretty good on a 19 inch flat panel monitor--I am running it at 1024-768 instead of what would be 1280X1040 or something, cause it's just too slow otherwise. I cannot run a screen saver, tells me my video card won't support it, which is surprising to me with the default screen savers included. Sound card, SB live value did not work or even be detected, but finally with help of the win 7 forum I found universal wdm drivers that work, ta da! I'm connecting via wired powerline ethernet bridge and this works seamlessly, not using wireless, no internal wireless card. Not connected as of yet to a printer. This is just a spare machine for experimenting. I think it needs more ram and upgraded video to really be all that useable for anything but emergency internet browsing, etc.
