Vista Upgrade Advisor Beta

[Travis King]

I ran it on my computer and it said that my computer was ready. Here's what
else it said, however. The caps I'll be using is not intended to be
shouting and it's just to make it stand out and make it easier to read...

YOU MAY NEED TO MANUALLY UPDAT THE DRIVERS FOR THE FOLLOWING DEVICES.
Windows Vista drivers for these devices exist, but they require you to
install them.
Category: Sound, Video, and Game controllers. Model: Creative Audigy
Audio Processor (WDM). Manufacturer: Creative Technology, Ltd. Action
Required: Get driver from Microsoft Update

WINDOWS VISTA DRIVERS MAY NOT EXIST FOR THE DEVICES LISTED BELOW.
You may experience some loss of functionality with these devices after
installing Windows Vista. If so, you should contact the device manufacturer
to see if they have a more recent device driver.
Category: Printers. Model: Canon i560
Category: Mice and other pointing devices. Model: HID-compliant MX510
Optical Mouse
Category: Display adapters. Model: RADEON X1600 Series Secondary
Category: Network Adapaters. Model: NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Category: Sound, Video, and Game controllers. Model: Creative Game Port
Category: Human Interface Devices. Model: Logitech USB MX510 Optical
Mouse
Category: Misc. Model: Visioneer 58XX USB Scanner

DRIVERS FOR THESE DEVICES WILL BE INSTALLED AUTOMATICALLY
Some drivers will be installed as part of the Windows Vista installation.
Others will be automatically updated as long as you have Windows Update
enabled.
Category: Display adapters. Model: RADEON X1600 Series
Category: IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Model: NVIDIA nForce3 250 Serial ATA
Controller (v2.6) NVIDIA nForce3 250 Parallel ATA Controller (v2.6)
Category: Misc. Model: NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator.

So with all this, any advice to give me. From experience, what have you
managed to work and what haven't you at this point in the game? Thanks.

By the way, I installed my new power supply. It was so big that I had to
move my case fan on the top to the outside of my computer instead of the
inside because the PSU was in the way.

 

[Jeff]

OK,
Where is the vista upgrade advisor?

Jeff

 

[Jane Colman]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=65926&clcid=0x409
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[Zack Whittaker]

Done an article/tutorial on it - so you know what it is, what to do etc. )
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/system/upgradetool

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[blahhh]

That advisor is still in beta and the notes it gives about your drivers are
in my case atleast quite wrong.

In my case it says that drivers are available for something that they
certainly aren't available for, and then it says drivers are not available
for stuff that already works very well in Vista and has drivers..

Most likely you will get atleast some functionality out of the devices even
if they do not have Vista specific drivers. And that functionality is
certainly much more than what you'd get out of XP without drivers.

 

[Roy Coorne]

blahhh declared:

That advisor is still in beta and the notes it gives about your drivers are
in my case atleast quite wrong.

In my case it says that drivers are available for something that they
certainly aren't available for, and then it says drivers are not available
for stuff that already works very well in Vista and has drivers..

Most likely you will get atleast some functionality out of the devices even
if they do not have Vista specific drivers.

Oh ... would you mind to give us some example of such added functionality?

And that functionality is
certainly much more than what you'd get out of XP without drivers.

Without drivers? (Without other drivers than those provided by Windows?)


Roy [slightly disturbed]