Re: Ultimate will not install over my Home Premium

The VUA has to have gotten something wrong or the message is not correctly understood. Make a full image backup (including the MBR) of your VHP partition and run the upgrade anyway. Unless you are migrating from x86 VHP to x64 VU, I don't see how the board can not be supported with the current nVidia driver. If you bought the card separately and the card is branded by someone other than nVidia (like evga) and it is merely using the nVidia engine, then be sure the driver comes form the card mfg and not nVidia. If your computer came with VHP preinstalled, including the card, then get the driver from the computer mfg.

"Jim" <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A344DA19-7A71-4FBE-AD86-448707E96ACE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I did uninstall Vista SP1 and and tried Ultimate again and it was then able
to upgrade however I ran into another problem. It told me there was a device
problem and I ran ran Vista Update advisor and it told me Vista will not
support my Nvida GeForce 8800 GT. This is strange because my Vista home
premium is running with and it works fine. I did go to the nvida site and
downloaded the lastest Vista drivers for the 8800 GT rebooted and again Vista
update advisor told me Vista will not run with this video card.
So again I am unable to upgrade to Ultimate.
Any ideas on this problem>

Jim


"Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:

"Jim" <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1FBBCEB8-2E4C-474E-9DEF-F54621390A69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a full version of Home Premium and have been running it for a >year
>or
> more.
> I bought Vista Ultimate upgrade. However when I try and install and
> upgrade
> to Premium I get a message saying...
>
> You need a newer version of this software to upgrade.
>
> I am running Vista SP1. It offers to do a clean install, which I do > not
> want.
>
> What does Ultimate want?? It is so vague.
>
> If it is an upgrade it certainly does not need a clean install.
>
> Any help on this?
>
> Jim
>
>


If you are running Vista SP1, and the version of Vista on the DVD is
pre-SP1, it will not upgrade the system. If you have installed SP1 as an
update to your system, you can uninstall it, run the upgrade and then
re-apply SP1..



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