Win 7 hardware compatibility

Hello this seems like the best place to pose my question.

A couple of months back I tried multiple times to install the various RTM's of 7 and never succeeded.

Now my question is there any way to be sure that my system can even install 7?

I know my system can handle it but after past experiences I am a little gun shy.
I want to buy a OEM copy but I am afraid if the install goes south I will have to trash my copy.

Gspoon, welcome to the forums.

Unless you have some oddball peripherals not listed in your specs or older printers, etc; everything shown there can and will work with Windows 7 and have both 32 bit and 64 bit drivers.

notsograymatter said:

Yes, you can use the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. It'll tell you whether or not your system can use Windows 7.

Download details: Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

That's the thing I know I should be able to run 7, everything in they system IS compatible.

stormy13 said:

Gspoon, welcome to the forums.

Unless you have some oddball peripherals not listed in your specs or older printers, etc; everything shown there can and will work with Windows 7 and have both 32 bit and 64 bit drivers.

I just have a mouse and keyboard no printer,scanner ect.I guess their are too many variables could be bad RTM, Disc or Iso.

Thanks for the replies.

Gspoon said:

Hello this seems like the best place to pose my question.

A couple of months back I tried multiple times to install the various RTM's of 7 and never succeeded.

Now my question is there any way to be sure that my system can even install 7?

I know my system can handle it but after past experiences I am a little gun shy.
I want to buy a OEM copy but I am afraid if the install goes south I will have to trash my copy.

It might help if you would go into a little detail about exactly what kind of install failure you're getting... The crew here is pretty sharp and I'm betting there's a way around the problem...

CommonTater said:

Gspoon said:

Hello this seems like the best place to pose my question.

A couple of months back I tried multiple times to install the various RTM's of 7 and never succeeded.

Now my question is there any way to be sure that my system can even install 7?

I know my system can handle it but after past experiences I am a little gun shy.
I want to buy a OEM copy but I am afraid if the install goes south I will have to trash my copy.

It might help if you would go into a little detail about exactly what kind of install failure you're getting... The crew here is pretty sharp and I'm betting there's a way around the problem...

As far as specific error messages I can't recall. I know I downloaded 64 and 32 bit ISOs via MS and various torrents. Then proceeded to burn the RTM ISO's and every one failed. I do recall that I had a 2gb stick of ram die on me some time after maybe that was the cause. Didn't a number of people have trouble installing 7 with more than one stick of ram in their system?

I ended up ordering a SSD and Win 7 64 bit yesterday.If I have any problems arise I will post again hopefully with good news.

Gspoon said:

As far as specific error messages I can't recall. I know I downloaded 64 and 32 bit ISOs via MS and various torrents.

And you trusted them?

Wow.

CommonTater said:

Gspoon said:

As far as specific error messages I can't recall. I know I downloaded 64 and 32 bit ISOs via MS and various torrents.

And you trusted them?

Wow.

what do you mean ? I didn't just download random RTM's I did download ISO's from Microsoft as well neither worked. give me a little credit buddy!

Gspoon said:

CommonTater said:

Gspoon said:

As far as specific error messages I can't recall. I know I downloaded 64 and 32 bit ISOs via MS and various torrents.

And you trusted them?

Wow.

what do you mean ? I didn't just download random RTM's I did download ISO's from Microsoft as well neither worked. give me a little credit buddy!

No "discredit" intended... but you should know there are a whole mess of messed up ISOs out there... particularly those found on torrent sites. I was just a little surprised that you would trust them... I sure wouldn't.