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Got a Toshiba laptop that wouldn't take any 32bit OSs, including Windoz or Linux. Inadvertently I put on Mint14 64bit, and it installed.Alas no update for 14. I'm wondering if this was a fluke, or whether I can install Mint 17, 64bit. I had no idea that it was a 64bit mobo.Any information would be greatly appreciated. Actually I still don't know that it's a 64bit mobo. I'm assuming it is.
Last edited by Lefthandeddude; 09-08-2014 at 12:06 AM.
64 bit CPUs and motherboards are supposed to be backward compatible and accept 32 bit operating systems and programs but 64 bit operating systems and programs can only install and work on 64 bit hardware, so you have 64 bit hardware. You might want to run mprime on your mint linux to test your hardware. Start mprime from a terminal window and select "torture test." I typically run the torture test for 24 hours straight without pause when testing hardware.
64 bit CPUs and motherboards are supposed to be backward compatible and accept 32 bit operating systems and programs but 64 bit operating systems and programs can only install and work on 64 bit hardware, so you have 64 bit hardware. You might want to run mprime on your mint linux to test your hardware. Start mprime from a terminal window and select "torture test." I typically run the torture test for 24 hours straight without pause when testing hardware.
While systems are supposed to be 32 bit capable it may fail on two issues. One is the system wasn't tested for the level of the OS. Meaning that the factory may have never tested some old OS/2 warp on it. Various pal's and proms and timings may be off a bit. So the 32 bit os may fail.
More likely is that the older 32 bit doesn't have driver support for the newer hardware.
In a very unlikely but possible case the system may have an odd failure where no 32 bit os can work.
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