upgrading windows7 to windows10 on an old laptop toshiba satellite m40 331 allways in error

[jean luc ferre]

Hello,
on this old laptop toshiba satellite m40 331 i am trying (but failing) to upgrade frow w7 to w10 and allways i have the error : 0xc1900101 - 0c20017. The upgrading process stops with the pc blocked with the logo screen w10 on the display; then there is no activity on the disk hdd or ssd.
it's also impossible to boot from a dvd iso bootable, the device equally blocks on the w10 logo screen...
i verified the informations in the device manager and it seems there are no problems...
i wonder if it's not an issue about the bios (which is very old) or an interface problem with the disk (because when i open the bios i find nothing relative to an AHCI/SATA positionning).
with this post i let you two photos of the screens of the opened bios.
Here are the informations about the bios characteristics read from msinfo32 and dxdiag reports and apparently they don't coincide. (msinfo32: TOSHIBA Version 1.10, 26/09/2005 - dxdag : Insyde Software MobilePRO BIOS Version 4.20.09).
Perhaps somebody can give me more information about this bios and eventually it's update? or give me suggestions to understand this matter?
Thank you in advance for your answers.
Jean luc Ferré

[m1ch43lzm]

Hi, which CPU do you have? You can check with CPU-Z

From what I read Windows 10 requires that the CPU supports Execute Disable bit, according to your BIOS screenshot is not supported

[jean luc ferre]

hello,
thank you for your answer,
the cpu of the laptop is : Processeur Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz, 1733 MHz, 1 cœur(s), 1 processeur(s) logique(s)...
here you will find in attachments the msinfo32 and dxdiag reports in windows7.
This bios is really out of date; probably there is something wrong and incomplete for windows10, that's why i hope there is an update but i don't find it..?.
But booting in w7 even with ssd works fine; but in msconfig i realized that the system starts in secured mode...perhaps that's why it works in w7...
Hoping having more informtions bout this bios or starting process, thnk you in advance for your answers.
jean luc Ferré

[m1ch43lzm]

Sorry, can't find a newer BIOS, appears you have latest version according to dynabook website for a similar model (cannot find your exact model on dynabook website)

Description:
Change History

Version 1.10 ???09-26-2005
Note: This BIOS is applicable ONLY to Tecra A4 (PTA42u...) and Satellite M40/M45 units (PSM42U...) having ATI or nVidia display adapters.

Besides, windows 10 will be very slow with only 2gb of RAM

[jean luc ferre]

Hello,
thank you for your answer...i am agree about the speed of windows 10 if eventually the upgrading succeeds...
A surprising thing in the bios is that there are positionnings about IDE devices while the hardware connector of the disk is SATA . (nothing also with sata AHCI positionning which is required for window 10).
rather than doing an upgrade from w7; if i try an installation booting on a dvd iso bootable w20 i have the same result: the process stops on the first view of the w10 logo screen...and then nothing is written on the disk...
i don't understand that..
Thank you for all; waiting for your next informations.
Jean Luc Ferré

[CapLeaker]

What happens if you take a HDD with Windows 10 installed on a different computer and swap into this one?

[Per Hansson]

The Pentium M was released 22 years ago, as yours shows it having XD not supported in the BIOS you can not run anything newer than Windows 7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M

[stj]

you can run the newest linux on it - fuck windows.
and WINE has come a long way - dont underestimate it.
but you REALLY need 2x 2gig dims in that machine, 4gig is really a minimum for anything.

[m1ch43lzm]

Won't work with 4GB of RAM, the Pentium M is only 32 bit CPU
The intel 915GM/PM chipset only supports up to 2GB, so no point even trying with 3GB (2+1)

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/do...-datasheet.pdf

Maximum memory supported is 2 GB

You may want to try a 32 bit Linux distro on it

[jean luc ferre]

Hello,
Thank you for your answers and contributions.
answering to CapLeaker i made a try with another disk coming from another pc but it failed with a blue creen because this was a 64 bits version, i will try to find a 32 bits version in my surrounding.
i studied with care the answer of Per Hansson and i put here in attachments the reports of cpu-z which shows that my processor was a Dotham one 740...but in the article quoted in the link they indicate that may be, this last model of processor may be compatible for windows 8 and later :

Revisions of the Dothan core were released in the first quarter of 2005 with the Sonoma chipsets and supported a 533 MT/s FSB and XD (Intel's name for the NX bit); and the PAE support flag in the CPUID was enabled, unlike earlier Pentium Ms that showed PAE unavailable. This resolved boot errors in Linux distributions as well as with Windows 8 and later. These revised Dothan processors include the 730 (1.6 GHz), 740 (1.73 GHz), 750 (1.86 GHz), 760 (2.0 GHz), 770 (2.13 GHz) and 780 (2.26 GHz) and have a TDP of 27 W and a 2 MB L2 cache.

i still prefer to stay with windows7 rather than using a linux distro...
once more thank you for all, and i am waiting for your new answers.
Jean Luc Ferré

[Per Hansson]

Execute disable must be enabled in the BIOS, if the BIOS does not support it then the operating system will not be able to take advantage of it...

[jean luc ferre]

Hello,
thank you for your contributions.
i come back to what was saying Per Hansson in the #7 post about the XD and NX bits...
in the bios of the toshiba pc i found a positionning : "execute-disable bit capability"....and if i switch it to "available" then the process of upgrading the pc stops with an error message (see in attachments) indicating that the installation of windows 10 is not possible because the NX fonctionnality of the processor is missing...this apparently is not what i expected to have because normally the dohan 740 processor like mine must have had it...
but in the same time that's compatible with what i saw when the process of upgrading stopped on the logo w10 screen which corresponds to the announced crash when loading the ntoskrnl.exe.
after all that, i think that i have to stay on the windows 7 installation.
Thank you for all
jean luc Ferré