&gt; New motherboards with the geforce7025&#x2F;nforce630a chipset are currently on sale even now.<p>So is a mint condition boxed Apple II+ from 1977 (for $1,400). Why doesn&#x27;t Windows 10 run on that?<p>You can still buy a new motherboard with a 7025 but they&#x27;re still from five years ago. They&#x27;re just old inventory sitting in a warehouse somewhere.<p>&gt; The upgrade now nag screen said the machine was &quot;unable to run&quot; Windows 10. That is categorically false.<p>It is more true than false. It has a graphics card in it that has no compatible Windows 10 drivers available. The fact it runs at all is surprising, and considering these are completely automated messages it is completely understandable why Microsoft would relay that message.<p>MOST users with a machine like your father&#x27;s would be better off not upgrading to Windows 10, because compatibility cannot be assured. It could break their computer.<p>&gt; If they don&#x27;t know whether a particular hardware arrangement works or not then they shouldn&#x27;t state twice that it doesn&#x27;t, they should say &quot;your hardware may not work&quot; or &quot;your hardware is unsupported&quot; or &quot;we don&#x27;t consider your hardware to work well enough&quot; or something else that is actually true.<p>I will grant that it could be worded more carefully. The upgrade agent shouldn&#x27;t allow people to proceed, however, the wording could be constructed differently.<p>Overall I don&#x27;t have a whole lot of sympathy. This is a free upgrade. Nobody is forcing you to take it, and nobody owes you anything because it wasn&#x27;t compatible.