Windows 7 on TC1000

[MartinT]

I know, I'm mad. However, I have made some progress on installing W7 on my 768MB TC1000 using a spare HD so as not to mess up the original XP install. I have got pretty much everything working except for the all-important digitiser and the graphics which only work in dumb generic driver mode.

I intend to upgrade the TC1000's memory to 1GB by upgrading the internal RAM module to 512MB PC-2100 using the Bytestor SODIMM module that has been reported as successful elsewhere.

So, are there any suggestions on how to get the digitiser working? I cannot find any drivers for Finepoint except those on the HP site which won't install on W7. Has anyone spotted anything that might work? Is it worth trying the tricks used to get W7 on the TC1100?

[laserwizard]

good luck with Windows 7 on tc1000, unfortunately you can't upgrade to 1GB of RAM on tc1000 only 768MB. Windows 7 requires at least 1GB to properly run and 2GB to run at its best

Have you run the drivers in compatibility mode at all.

[MartinT]

Hi laserwizard

Others have managed the 1GB upgrade. I'm talking about the internal SODIMM module under the motherboard, not the external one which is already 512MB.

Thanks for the tip on drivers, I shall give it a try.

[adsmeenk]

So, are there any suggestions on how to get the digitiser working? I cannot find any drivers for Finepoint except those on the HP site which won't install on W7. Has anyone spotted anything that might work? Is it worth trying the tricks used to get W7 on the TC1100?
I have tried and succeeded in a few occasions to get the digitiser working but its not stable in anyway (check the HP sub-forum for that)

Aside from the digitiser problem, the TC1000's Crusoe CPU is not upto spec for running W7: its actually running slower than XP, all other machines I tried W7 on ran faster then with XP. W7 is able to run in 512MB depending on the amount of concurrent applications you want.

But for the TC1000: no real use in trying W7 is my conclusion (as sad as it is).

[docg]

There is a code morphing patch for the tc1000 if it was purchased with the Efficeon chip -- this would have been a TC1000 manufactured after 11/7/02. (code morphing software) reserved a small portion of main memory (typically 32 MB) for its translation cache of dynamically translated x86 instructions.

Although personally, I don't think that this would help to make it compatible with win7. The slowness of my tc1000 was why I upgraded to the tc1100 just recently. Perhaps the faster os for the device would be linux, unless you are like me and 'need' to run specific windows programs that may not work under emulation or vm on linux.

Although, I'm not sure you'll succeed at this- all the best and here is the hp driver page for tablet pc- of course not sure the drivers will work in win7

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=307010&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=307008&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1059

You probably already had that page

Question what if you changed out the digitizer for a wacom one now would that work?- don't see the point in doing that; going tc1100 would be better because of the basic chip set being better on the 1100

There are some good buys on e bay currently.

[MartinT]

Bytestor 512MB module arrived and now installed. The TC1000 boots up with 1GB!

Now for Windows 7...

Thanks for the tips. I will try the digitiser driver in compatibility mode and see what happens. I don't think I'll install the code morphing driver unless I'm feeling very brave and have made an image backup first.

[docg]

Bytestor 512MB module arrived and now installed. The TC1000 boots up with 1GB!

Now for Windows 7...

Thanks for the tips. I will try the digitiser driver in compatibility mode and see what happens. I don't think I'll install the code morphing driver unless I'm feeling very brave and have made an image backup first.


Sounds like an excellent plan! I applaud your efforts. Come back and tell us how well it works with some of the programs!

[MartinT]

Had to give up. There is no way to get the last release of the FinePoint driver to run in W7, so no pen support. Otherwise it runs W7 well enough, but the screen is slow on account of no compatible Nvidia driver for the GeForce2Go chipset.

Abandoned and reinstalled XP Tablet Edition. Was worth a try, but the TC1000 still runs nicely with XP in 1GB RAM with a slightly faster hard disk.