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MS-6585 motherboard installation
I am trying to instal Windows 7 Professional (MS upgrade disc) on an elderly (2002) machine which has an MSI-6585 (aka 648 Max) motherboard. It has 2Gb RAM, Seagate 250Gb hard drive and nVidia 7800GS graphics card. The current OS is XP SP3.
The system passes the Windows Upgrade Advisor tests with no problems.
Having read somewhere that the board is unable to recognise the boot sector of the Win 7 DVD, I followed the suggestion to create a new DVD using the boot sector of a Vista DVD - but all to no avail.
MSI says simply that the motherboard is too old for Windows 7. Maybe I shall have to accept this, but I should be interested to hear of others experiences with this board, which I think was quite common at one time.
All suggestions gratefully received!