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    m15x error updating from Windows Vista 32bit to 7 32bit

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by JustTray, Oct 27, 2009.

  1. JustTray

    JustTray Newbie

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    Hey guys,

    First time caller, long time listener. Hopefully you all can help me with my recent issue as Microsoft and Alienware keep going back and forth as to the problem.

    On Thursday last week I bought the upgrade to Windows 7 and downloaded it via the Microsoft store. As I was upgrading (not clean install), I got an blue screen physical memory dump at the last step of transferring files. The system reverted back to Vista and I tried again. Same issue again though it seemed to get a bit further in the file transfer. Now Windows 7 was installed at least partially on my computer, it did not revert back to Vista.

    Now however, every time I turn on my computer it blue screens of death with either 0x00000050 or 0x0000008E as the error. It takes abour 4-5 blue screen restarts before it will finally turn on. When it does load, it goes incredibly slowly. It at first glance appears as though the video drivers aren't up to date. I've tried to update the graphics card drivers but when I do it says I do not have the compatible operating system installed, setup will now close.

    Microsoft insisted it was because I hadn't activated my Windows 7. I did that, the problem persists. The blue screens will not go away and when I do finally get to the desktop, it is unusable. Alienware thinks that it may be the Turbo Cache Memory, but I tried to install the new drivers for that and had the same installation error.

    The compatablity scan prior to installing brought back no errors and yet, I have a myriad of them. I've read a good number of threads on here and none of them seem to help me, including the one all about windows 7 and drivers so I now plead to the internet for assistance.

    Thank you,

    Just Tray.
     
    JustTray, Oct 27, 2009
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  2. kobe

    kobe Notebook Virtuoso

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    I'm pretty sure that you would have to do a clean install and wipe out Vista 32 to install Windows 7 64 bit. The system architectures are different.
     
    kobe, Oct 27, 2009
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