Windows 8 installed on a T42!

[Johan]

Just a small hint for the people who wish to play with Windows 8 on their T42/p's:

In the the thread Windows 8 on T43 the issue of installing Windows 8 on a T43 is discussed, with a bit of debate also about whether Windows 8 can (or cannot?) be installed on a T42. There are various claims that Windows 8 cannot be installed on a ThinkPad T42/p (due to the lack of PAE and NX support). Well, in relation to this, some readers of this forum might be interested in the fact... that one T42-user has actually succeeded in installing Windows 8 on his T42!

I just found this post pointing to the thread Win 8, bypass PAE/NX/SSE2 check (see page 12) and finally I found this post where it says the following:

It works! I finally got Windows 8.1 up and running on an old T42 1.8 GHz Pentium-M ThinkPad with 2 GB RAM!

Its Pentium M (Dothan) CPU doesn't have PAE or NX, but the system runs nicely, after the boot error 0xc0000428 was removed. However, I haven't been able to install a suitable driver for the Radeon Mobility 9600 Graphics card.

I have tried installing the Catalyst vista driver called '10-2_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc', but the system complains that the driver isn't compatible, so the system runs on the "standard VGA Graphics Adapter".

Any suggestions regarding drivers for the Radeon Mobility 9600 GPU?

Last edited by tomchr; Feb. 25, 2014 at 02:14.

The above only information shared if there are some technically advanced people in this forum who would also like to start playing with Win 8 on their T42's!

Bottom line: Never say never!

Johan

[irus]

awesome ! but too much of a hassle if graphics drivers are an issue which will be even tougher to get working because the wddm version is different on windows 8!

it might need a driver to be written from scratch!

[vpreda2003]

Hi! Have a look at this thread, http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 96#p735596 , #14 post. Thank you!