Old Dell laptop able to run Windows 10

unforeseen

Unless it is a Dell 630 with 4Gb. You are comparing apes with oranges. It's nothing to do with age but more to do with the CPU and chipset combination of the D630 that is the problem.

You can theorise all you like about reasons why it doesn't work for me. But practical tests show that unfortunately a D630 and 64bit are not good bed partners

You've said I am doing something wrong, there is a problem with Sata, there is a configuration problem.

BIOS was set up as per recommendations and everything else was fine. It just doesn't play.

I have 2007 & 2009 machines that are fine on Win 7 & Win 10 64 bit. It is only the D630 that will not work well with 64bit.

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spud17

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I run 32 bit Win 10 on a 2007 vintage Dell 6400 (2Gb ram) with no problems at all.

Same here, but 2006.

EveryWhere wrote: »

With just 2GB of RAM, 32-bit is recommended

Your CPU is capable of only a 32 bit instruction set, so would recognise perhaps only 3.25GB of RAM even if you installed 4GB.
Nevertheless, I still recommend the installation of 4GB since it costs as little as £7.50 delivered for 2 x 2GB DDR2-667 SO-DIMM.

Unfortunately I only have one working memory slot.:)
But it's still fine for browsing (Palemoon) and email (Thunderbird) etc.

EveryWhere

We are discussing a Dell Studio 15 pp33l 1537 with 4GB of RAM running Windows 10 64-bit and not a Latitude D630.

This is what you wrote;

The point that was trying to be made is not that the CPU can't run 64bit but that it is grossly underpowered when doing so even with 4Gb. I know from experience with D630 & 4Gb on a better spec CPU than the OP's and that does include fitting SSDs

But on the other hand you are telling us that similar CPU on other devices than the Latitude D630 run absolutely fine. So the problem is specifically with your Latitude D630. (??)

So what's that all about??

Interrupting the flow of the thread to tell us about your crippled D630 and attempting to extrapolate it to other devices, when in fact has nothing at all to do with the OP's experience.

But how about getting back to helping the OP with the Studio 15 1537?

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EveryWhere

unforeseen wrote: »

Based on the fact that a Dell 630 with a T7300 dual core CPU runs like an absolute pig with 64 bit if you can get it to install but runs 32 bit quite happily. A Studio 1537 has a lower spec T6400 CPU

Nothing to do with the CPU at all.

Perhaps you can point to any respected source that states that either of those CPU, both with Intel 64 architecture, would have a problem handling a 64 bit instruction set, as opposed to 32-bit.

The bottleneck is most certainly not with the CPU.

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DoaM

Oh dear - looks like someone's taken the hump and enabled EveryWhere's status update.