I have gotten Window 8 installed on Dell Inspiron e1505

[paulsiu]

I downloaded Windows 8 Developer Preview and managed to install the OS on a Dell Inspiron e1505 with an ATI Mobility Radeon x1300 video card. The bulk of the problem was getting the Video card to work with an outdated driver.

I thought my experience may be helpful to those trying to install wiindows 8 on their Dell.

Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview on a Dell Inspiron e1505 The Bonobo Journal

Paul

[Tsunade_Hime]

I've seen plenty of machines (E1405, E1505, E1705) running 7, and Windows 8 driver model...is near identical. Also if your laptop has a Core Duo, it will not support 64 bit, only if you have a Core 2 Duo for Socket M.

[ScottyBoy]

Originally Posted by Tsunade_Hime

I've seen plenty of machines (E1405, E1505, E1705) running 7, and Windows 8 driver model...is near identical. Also if your laptop has a Core Duo, it will not support 64 bit, only if you have a Core 2 Duo for Socket M.

I'll be honest and say I haven't - quite surprised that the laptop could run W8.

It will be curious to see what other older laptops out there will be able to successfully run it without any significant device driver support or performance issues, especially for those with laptops that have less system resources available i.e. CPU, RAM, HDD, Screen Resolution.

[ganzonomy]

The only quirk I've noticed with W8 on my XPS m1710 is that the fans no longer spin as they normally did. Now this may not be a problem with the x1300, but with the 7950 GTX I have, it's starting to result in GPU temps going over 80 deg C, even after cleaning out the fan vents (and fans) and reapplying GELID GC-EXTREME to the CPU and GPU. I have BIOS A07 on the m1710. Perhaps this is a phaseout of architecture? (Strange since vista / 7 / 8 should be on the same fundamental building blocks driver-wise).

Jason

[ScottyBoy]

Originally Posted by ganzonomy

The only quirk I've noticed with W8 on my XPS m1710 is that the fans no longer spin as they normally did. Now this may not be a problem with the x1300, but with the 7950 GTX I have, it's starting to result in GPU temps going over 80 deg C, even after cleaning out the fan vents (and fans) and reapplying GELID GC-EXTREME to the CPU and GPU. I have BIOS A07 on the m1710. Perhaps this is a phaseout of architecture? (Strange since vista / 7 / 8 should be on the same fundamental building blocks driver-wise).

Jason

Could it be down to chipset support for your hardware under Windows 8 not being fully compliant?

[ganzonomy]

Originally Posted by ScottyBoy

Could it be down to chipset support for your hardware under Windows 8 not being fully compliant?

Quite Possibly. I put Win8 solely for test purposes, without any guarantee and knew that going in it may have some fails on an aged architecture. I'm considering - if beta is a good one - putting win8 on my Sager NP8662 to see how it manages with greater gpu / cpu / ram resources relative to Win7.

Jason

[ScottyBoy]

Originally Posted by ganzonomy

Quite Possibly. I put Win8 solely for test purposes, without any guarantee and knew that going in it may have some fails on an aged architecture. I'm considering - if beta is a good one - putting win8 on my Sager NP8662 to see how it manages with greater gpu / cpu / ram resources relative to Win7.

Jason

I'd be interested to see what results you get - myself I'm considering installing the current W8 release on a Dell Latitude D630 (T9500 CPU, 8GB DDR2 RAM), to see what type of performance I'll get out of it.

I'm also eyeing up a 2nd hand Dell Latitude E4300 (need to replace a faulty netbook for my folks) and I might try it out on that as well before I rebuild it for them.