Thanks,
I've been telling him the systems were probably incompatible at the hardware level, But he's a good guy and I went along. After seeing your replies he's resigned to finding another operating system--one that doesn't overload the processor and make it as slow as a Xilog 32.

At my school we have some old 1 meg pentium Windows desktop computers which the instructor, after having purchased some Raspberry Pi's and using them in the curriculum, wants to load with Raspberry Pi operating systems. Has anyone actually done this before and how would you boot the new system if th...

Heat-sinks look cool! Especially the anodized ones.

We should take a moment of silence in their memory.

I received a thermal image from a reader showing that the processor was actually getting hotter than the other chip. The processor is the chip that shows through the plastic cover, there's a square hole in the plastic and the chip showing through that hole is the processor. The hole allows the heat ...

The pi is fine. The heat-sink is fine and appreciated; I know the value of keeping silicon cool and temperatures within a narrow range, even if it's not needed under normal conditions, silicon wear occurs due to differences in heat for the most part. The missive to Microsoft is the result of my long...

ktb,
I used the heatsink on the processor after identifying the processor by running the numbers. As an electronic engineer, all silicon runs better if cool, that's why millions are spent on refrigeration at server cites. If someone gives you a heat-sink, put it on whatever chip that's near.

The confusion here seems to be that jerryemerydelacruz received a Pi with a heat sink. Now, as far as I can recall, there is no mention of heat sinks in any of the Raspberry Pi Foundations documentation. Why would there be? It does not need one. Ergo, jerryemerydelacruz's supplier is responsible fo...

An electronic chip that obviously doesn't need a heat sink shouldn't come with one in its packaging. A processor is not obviously the largest chip on a board, plenty of video and controller chips can be larger than many processors, not to mention power supply and voltage regulator circuits. If a chi...

I just bought a new raspberry pi 2 and it came with a stick-on heat-sink. There is no documentation or reference as to which chip the heat sink is to be applied. I assume it would be the processor, but which chip is the processor. This should not be this complicated. There should be amble documentat...