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Geek Culture / PC won't allow me to upgrade to Windows Vista

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Braden 713
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Location: Canada
Posted: 7th Sep 2009 07:51
Hey guys, I don't visit this board all too often, but as of late I've run into an issue that my relatively low knowledge of computers seems to be having trouble dealing with.

I'm trying to upgrade from Windows XP to Vista, in order to run FPS Creator X10; I've got the Microsoft Windows XP Professional to Windows Vista Business Express Upgrade disk. Upon running, it opens a window where it attempts to check over my computer to ensure that it will be able to run Vista. As it checks my OS an error message pops up however. The error message states "Windows XP is not Windows Vista capable".

As for a solution, I am completely lost. My PC is running XP Service Pack 3, has an Intel Core 2 CPU with 2 GB of RAM. My video card is an nVidia GeForce 8800 GT.

If anyone knows what might be causing the dilemma, even an idea that might be the issue, I would greatly appreciate any help I can get. Again, I apologize now as I am not very computer savvy, so if you know what the problem might be, speaking in relatively newbish terms would as well be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

Cheers

Ich will in Beifall untergehen.
NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 7th Sep 2009 12:15
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19280794.aspx

You couldn't miss it. The only result on Google that wasn't from this forum.

Don't run it from inside XP, put it in and then boot from it through the BIOS.

Braden 713
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Posted: 7th Sep 2009 12:43
Ah

Thanks man, appreciated.

Cheers

Ich will in Beifall untergehen.

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