Upgrading trials

petrossa

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Having succesfully upgraded 7000 up to 7057 without to much trouble i upgraded today to 7068.

Took over 2 hours (other upgrades took 30 mins).
After final reboot display driver conked out, rebooted in 640x480 where the first setup dialog continued.

Reinstalled the display driver, this came immediately up with the previous settings. No reboot necessary.

Background was black, whichever theme i chose the background reset to solid colours. After messing about a bit i suddenly found 3 extra items in the dropdownlist where you choose between backgrounds. All 3 where called: DesktopBackground. Clicking on one of these restored my background.

My antivirus (bitdefender) was lost in there somewhere, firewall wouldn't come up. Reinstalled bitdefender firewall works again.

Better do clean install next time i guess. Weird the other builds worked fine.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
me and myself
OS
vista x64/ win 7 x64
CPU
phenom 9950 BE
Motherboard
ASUS M2A-VM HDMI
Memory
8 gb
Graphics Card(s)
nvidia gts 250
Sound Card
realtek HD onboard
Monitor(s) Displays
dual hd 19" tft
Screen Resolution
1440x900
Hard Drives
2 x 500 gb WDC
1 x 500 gb Seagate
1 x 1000 gb Seagate
1 80 gb raptor
1 usb 160 gb
Cooling
standard issue
Keyboard
logitech g11
Mouse
usb wireless MS laser 6000
Internet Speed
18 mb (according to my provider :)
Upgrades to Widows 7 generally take ages but really you shouldn't be doing any upgrade with any kind of antivirus installed, you should always uninstall it first as they have a habit of stopping certain low level system changes.

I have done a couple of 7068 upgrades now with no problems what so ever. nice build.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Home Built / Acer Aspire 7720G Laptop
OS
Windows 7 Build 7600 Laptop and desktop. Also OSX 10.5.7 and 10.6 Snow on Laptop
CPU
AMD Athlon64 Dual core 4200+ / Laptop T5750
Motherboard
Gigabyte / Acer Aspire
Memory
2 x 1Gb = 2 Gb / acer 3GB
Graphics Card(s)
Geforce 8600GT / Geforce 9300M G 256Mb
Sound Card
Terratec DMX 6fire for Music production and X-Fi Xtreme
Monitor(s) Displays
2 x 17" (Dell and Compaq) / 17" WXGA Laptop Screen
Screen Resolution
1280x1024 / 1440x900 (Full HD when conneced to 32" LCD)
Hard Drives
2x Sata 160GB 2x USB 300Gb 1x 160Gb IDE 1x USB 1TB / 250Gb Sata Laptop with Blu-ray drive
PSU
400W + Not 100% sure
Keyboard
Logitech Cordless Keyboard
Mouse
Logitech Mx 700
Internet Speed
20 Meg Down / 1 Meg up Cable
Other Info
Konica Minolta Colour Laser printer, Epson Stylus R360 (Mostly used for printing on CD's/DVD's), Cannon Scanner, Mercury surround system, about 6 external hard drives all 200Gb plus along with the normall home entertainment stuff attached.... DBox 2, XBox 360, etc. etc.
I guess I've just been lucky... 7000 -> 7022 -> 7048 -> 7057 -> 7068. All upgrades and all have gone well. On my desktop machine, I even did a "retrograde" from 7057 back to 7048 as 7057 would not see Windows XP machines on my network. I think I'll quit pressing my luck and wait for RC!
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell / Studio xps
OS
Windows7 x64 7600 16385
CPU
Intel I7 920
Motherboard
Dell
Memory
6GB DDR3
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon HD4350
Sound Card
Integrated 7.1 channel
Hard Drives
Hitachi HDT721064SLA360 (596 GB)
Keyboard
Logitech EX110
Mouse
Logitech LX8
Upgrades to Widows 7 generally take ages but really you shouldn't be doing any upgrade with any kind of antivirus installed, you should always uninstall it first as they have a habit of stopping certain low level system changes.

I have done a couple of 7068 upgrades now with no problems what so ever. nice build.

Always disabled antivirus before upgrading, uninstall never was necessary sofar. Only 7068 got the hickups.

But it is a nice build
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
me and myself
OS
vista x64/ win 7 x64
CPU
phenom 9950 BE
Motherboard
ASUS M2A-VM HDMI
Memory
8 gb
Graphics Card(s)
nvidia gts 250
Sound Card
realtek HD onboard
Monitor(s) Displays
dual hd 19" tft
Screen Resolution
1440x900
Hard Drives
2 x 500 gb WDC
1 x 500 gb Seagate
1 x 1000 gb Seagate
1 80 gb raptor
1 usb 160 gb
Cooling
standard issue
Keyboard
logitech g11
Mouse
usb wireless MS laser 6000
Internet Speed
18 mb (according to my provider :)
7068 refused to upgrade on 7057, says: compatibility issues. I am too lazy to force it, since another 70xx build seems to be on horizon.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP Compaq nc2400
OS
Windows 7
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