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Details: HP Pavillion running Vista Home Premium, 32bit (all factory, have not made any H/W changes in 2 yrs owned) model: dv6646us CPU: AMD Turion TL-58, Dual Core 64 x2 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 New Seagate Barracuda 320giger, 7200 rpm SATA (wanted to save existing HD 'just in case' !) ;) Bought...

Hi guys, I emailed Microsoft support this question and got a useless answer back; they just sent me a link to download the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, which basically told me what I already knew (that my system is capable of running Windows 7). So I called them just now and the so-called...

Hello! I have read the sticky notes and similar articles and have read forum posts, but none seem to address what I've encountered. I had a project to completely rebuild a PC that had been running 32 bit XP Pro. The PC is used mostly as a NAS. My intention was to put 64 bit Windows 7 on the...

I have an Asus P5VDC-X motherboard (LGA775). I did a full install of Windows 7 and everything has been working fine except I cannot get the sound to work. I followed all problem resolution suggestions then I went to the Asus website to get the most current downloads. I have not yet tried to...

I have a Gateway T-1616 laptop. it cam with Vista 32bit. I ran the upgrade advisor on it, and it said all would be well running Windows 7 64 bit. I did a clean install. It works great except for one thing. Whenever it goes to sleep, upon wake-up, it says I have no sound installed, but it has...

I have tried to install windows 7 64 bit on a asus k50ij running vista 64 bit. I am installing from an upgrade disk that was mailed to me because i bought the laptop shortly before the release. The installation always hangs at Copying Windows Files 0% I ran the upgrade advisor and uninstalled...

I have two computers that are running Win XP Home and one that is running Win Xp Media Center Edition. Will I have any problems upgrading the Win Xp Media Center Edition? Currently I'm trying to upgrade the system with Win Xp Home. It has a Gigabyte AMD AM2 Socket (GA-M57 SLI-S4) motherboard...

From Vista Ultimate I tried to install Windows 7 Utimate upgrade but after a long time, I got a message that the upgrade failed. Next I was directed to reverse the upgrade and boot from Vista. Next I ran Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. Information about upgrading: Windows Mail, Parental Contreols...

I have the following: Windows XP home SP3 and all the updates Intel E4400 @ 2.31GHZ 3.00 GB of Ram DirectX 9.0c I have run the Windows upgrade advisor and it says Upgrade However, when I run XP and then incert the 64 bit Upgrade disc, I get the following message. "This installation Disc isn't...

I tried 5 installs(upgrades) and nothing seemed to work. My first attempt I ran the upgrade adviser and was told to uninstall iTunes. I did that and the install froze (black screen) after a reboot after "installing devices and files". I then had to re-install VISTA. I then did some research and...

I just upgraded from Vista 64 Ultimate to Win7 Ultimate. Just want to give you all a head's up regarding my experience. I had two failed upgrade attempts (got to the end and then Win7 setup would revert back to reinstall Vista). The problem was that I needed to update my Intel Chipset drivers...

I cannot get windows 7 64 bit to install on my fujitsu siemens amilo xi2528,the requires drivers jmicron drivers and sata drivers to recognise the sata drives I have used a usb stick with xp drivers it recognises them but says they must be updated I have contacted fujitsu and they say that they...

I have a system that currently does not have windows installed on it, but I want to run the Upgrade Advisor on it before I purchase Windows 7. How can I do that? Is there a different utility that I can run instead? Thank you.

I have Vista on a Dell computer thats 2 years old. I bought the Vista upgrade to 7 version at Best Buy. I ran the upgrade advisor and it never would complete it's run. I saw from the Windows Community Forum that I should do a clean boot and then rerun the upgrade advisor. I did that, found...

Hello, I'm about to upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium but I made sure I updated as much drivers as possible and ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. I currently own 2 wireless adapters for my wireless internet in the other room a D-Link DWL-G132 USB adapter and a Ralink Corp PCI Turbo Wireless...

Can I upgrade from Vista to Win 7 without installing Vista SP1 first? Whn I ran Win 7 Upgrade Advisor it said I needed to install Vista SP1 first. Problem is that I had to uninstall Vista SP1 after I installed it to begin with when it first came out because it caused a myriad of problems which...

Ok I am getting really irritated with windows 7 now it just randomly freezes all the time. It works in safe mode i'm pretty sure. I thought this may be due to the resolution, maybe because my graphics card is incompatible, but i tried starting up with a low reolution in normal mode and again...

I'm trying to install either the 32bit and 64bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium via DVD onto my system. I am booting from the DVD and setup automicatically runs. The Windows 7 setup GUI loads and it allows me to choose the language settings and then I get a prompt for, LOAD DRIVER "A...

Hi, I've done the most recent bios flash and I'm thinking that the chipset update needs to be installed after installing win7 since I don't think it installs anything that would be helpful for wiping out the old os for the new or does it install something for the bios also? I'm attaching the...

Upgrade Advisor will not run on my laptop. I get a message that says an unexpected error has occurred and I should reinstall Upgrade Advisor. Reinstalling does not help. I think the laptop should be a candidate for upgrade. It's a Dell Vostro 1700 a little over a year old, running the latest...