Ah, how I enjoy reviving old, even antique hardware and make them work in the modern age. Recently I scored a cheap tablet computer on eBay, a Fujitsu Stylistic ST5011D. It's got an Intel Pentium M 1Ghz processor and a 10 inch display. (I think these pen-based tablets are far superior than modern "gadget" tablets like those from a certain fruit company, but that's another story.)
I slapped in a stick of 1GB DDR SDRAM (making 1.5GB total), a 160GB IDE (!) hard drive, and a MiniPCI Wireless card, and set to work on installing Windows 7 on it. Although the hardware is more than sufficient to run Windows 7 smoothly, there is no official support or drivers for this "obsolete" hardware. Therefore it takes quite a bit of trial and error to get everything working. For my fellow tinkerers, I have a few pointers here that hopefully will save you some time in similar pursuits.
After all is done, the tablet runs beautifully with Windows 7. Handwriting recognition is a joy to use. Coupled with Onenote, this is the ultimate notebook (as in a book you take notes in) one can ever get.
Hi, i also just got the same tablet off ebay and am about to mess with getting w7 on it, i was wondering how yours is doing? any problems youve noticed after awhile?
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DeleteI gave the tablet to my parents to mess with, and got a ThinkPad X41 tablet for myself. So I don't quite know how the Fujitsu is doing.
well thanks to your guide i was successful! im sending this from it now :) have you had any luck with getting the memory card reader to work?
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DeleteNo, I wasn't able to get the SD card reader to work. Although Windows Update has a driver for it, it seems to only recognize the device if you have a card in in at boot, and even then it doesn't show up in disk manager.
So, I walked through your setup, and I noticed the driver posted works great, except for the AGP accelleration. If I was to drop Windows Vista instead of 7, would the accelleration work? I am half tempted to try it on a spare HD.
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