Re: Ultimate will not install over my Home Premium

The Ultimate update/install dumps out. It will not continue.
Thats the problem.
I would continue the update/install if I could.

It says it can not continue and begins the roll back.

Jim

"Shane Nokes" wrote:

VHP is Vista Home Premium
MBR is Master Boot Record

Ignore the update advisor as it's old.

The upgrade should work fine if you just install it.

"Jim" <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The upgrade will not complete its install. It quits and says it can not
continue ...it gives me no choice. It also says run Upgade advisor so I
can
find out where the conflict is and correct before the upgrade will work.

I have no idea what VHP or MBR is. Please dont assume we know these
things.

Jim


"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

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
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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
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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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