Vista Upgrade disk

AlienMenace · 04-14-2008, 08:06 AM

A friend of mine is running Vista Home Premium 32bit. He had bought a Vista Ultimate upgrade disk (Student edition). He has a turion x64bit 1.9gb cpu in his laptop. 4gb of ram. He is having troubles installing he program. Error is "install failed. returning to previous os". Do you think it might be the ram issue that I been reading about. or is it the 64bit ultimate that has that problem.

PC eye · 04-14-2008, 08:56 PM

The first thing right off when seeing problems installing any version not just with 32bit editions is having 4gb of memory installed. Even with the 64bit editions of Vista the MS advice right at the start is to remove 2gb until Windows is installed and running.

Later the extra 2gb can be added back in. It seems the 3gb barrier also hampers the 64bit installers as well as the 32bit kernel.

Garethman!!` · 04-14-2008, 08:58 PM

What id do, is boot up off the DVD, and do a custom install, not putting in product number, and then once its running, upgrade from Vista to Vista, this time entering the product key.

PC eye · 04-14-2008, 10:02 PM

The Vista installer now takes the existing Windows directory along with the users folder and wraps them up in a Windows.old folder while XP simply did nothing but delete the old for seeing a totally new one replace them. The removal of 2gb of memory like one 2gb dimm should see an end to the errors right there since this is a known problem.

AlienMenace · 04-15-2008, 10:39 AM

Thanks for all the info. He had gotten all loaded. Seems like there were 2 programs it didn't like, so he took them out. He did take out the 2gb chip.
He also did off the net, for it wouldn't get the updates right away. After it loaded he put the 2gb back in and got all the updates. Before he could put the 2 programs back in.
Thanks again.

04-14-2008, 08:06 AM	#1 (permalink)
AlienMenace Bronze Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Omaha, Nebraska Posts: 56	Vista Upgrade disk A friend of mine is running Vista Home Premium 32bit. He had bought a Vista Ultimate upgrade disk (Student edition). He has a turion x64bit 1.9gb cpu in his laptop. 4gb of ram. He is having troubles installing he program. Error is "install failed. returning to previous os". Do you think it might be the ram issue that I been reading about. or is it the 64bit ultimate that has that problem. __________________ A-Top Z-Alien Case, 600w PSU AsusTek M2N-E SLI MB AMD X2 5200+Windsor 65w 6gb Patriot PC667 ATI Radeon X1550 (512mb) Sound Blaster AudigySE 500gb Seagate SATA 3.0gb DVD player and DVD Recorder DL Windows XP Pro 64bit

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PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,005	The first thing right off when seeing problems installing any version not just with 32bit editions is having 4gb of memory installed. Even with the 64bit editions of Vista the MS advice right at the start is to remove 2gb until Windows is installed and running. Later the extra 2gb can be added back in. It seems the 3gb barrier also hampers the 64bit installers as well as the 32bit kernel. __________________ Youtube falls short of Google's expectations http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Ahe...ory?id=5336532 Congress studies how people track your online use http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Ahe...ory?id=5337932

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Garethman!!` Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: UK and USA Age: 17 Posts: 919	What id do, is boot up off the DVD, and do a custom install, not putting in product number, and then once its running, upgrade from Vista to Vista, this time entering the product key. __________________ CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 / AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-53 1.70GHz RAM : 8GB DDR2 PC6400 / 2GB DDR2-667 PC5300 A-DATA HDD : 750GB SATA Seagate Barracuda/ Western Digital Scorpio 250GB 7200RPM GPU : Radeon HD2900XT 512MB / Radeon Xpress 1150 128MB OS : Windows Vista Ultimate x64 / Windows Vista Home Premium

04-14-2008, 10:02 PM	#4 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,005	The Vista installer now takes the existing Windows directory along with the users folder and wraps them up in a Windows.old folder while XP simply did nothing but delete the old for seeing a totally new one replace them. The removal of 2gb of memory like one 2gb dimm should see an end to the errors right there since this is a known problem. __________________ Youtube falls short of Google's expectations http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Ahe...ory?id=5336532 Congress studies how people track your online use http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Ahe...ory?id=5337932

04-15-2008, 10:39 AM	#5 (permalink)
AlienMenace Bronze Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Omaha, Nebraska Posts: 56	Vista Upgrade Thanks for all the info. He had gotten all loaded. Seems like there were 2 programs it didn't like, so he took them out. He did take out the 2gb chip. He also did off the net, for it wouldn't get the updates right away. After it loaded he put the 2gb back in and got all the updates. Before he could put the 2 programs back in. Thanks again. __________________ A-Top Z-Alien Case, 600w PSU AsusTek M2N-E SLI MB AMD X2 5200+Windsor 65w 6gb Patriot PC667 ATI Radeon X1550 (512mb) Sound Blaster AudigySE 500gb Seagate SATA 3.0gb DVD player and DVD Recorder DL Windows XP Pro 64bit

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