Windows compatibility with Phenom
On 11/18/2019 at 12:51 PM, Eigenvektor said:You mean Windows 10, which came out in 2015, doesn't officially support your hardware, which came out in 2009. The hardware can't change anything about it, it's not like you can design hardware to be "forward compatible". It's the OS and/or drivers that need to be backwards compatible.
Windows itself should run fine, as long as the CPU is x86 and/or supports 64 bit. As I said above, the problem is whether there are still drivers for such old hardware. Apple has very few components, so naturally they can provide support and drivers for older hardware, but Windows runs on a TON of different devices. If you want to blame anyone, blame the hardware manufacturers for not providing drivers for longer periods of time.
well its more the fact that the drivers don't exist rather then the hardware but none the less i got it going now. thanks y'all for the help as its my first pc and may be the start of my switch from macOS. After my battle with macOS just to make a install usb for windows (ended up just making a linux drive then using that to make the windows drive) i feel i might just stay with windows instead of switching back and forth.
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