Ugrading from xp home to xp professional

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Moonedd

I tried to upgrade from xp home to xp professional
(upgrade) but i got a message saying that i need to
upgrade an Nvidia Nforce AGP filter because its not
compatible and needs to be resolved before i can run the
xp professional setup cd again. Tried downloading from
Microsoft and Nvidia websites but nothing seems to work
so far.

I've checked my system and my graphics controller is an
intel 845g/gl nothing shows on my system for this nforce
driver that i need or maybe i'm missing it but can't see
where.

Any help in my query would be most appreciated?

Thank you
 
thanks for replying will, how do i go about seeing if the
onboard graphics is enabled? i did a dxdiag check and
everything that should be working is enabled?
 
-----Original Message-----
I tried to upgrade from xp home to xp professional
(upgrade) but i got a message saying that i need to
upgrade an Nvidia Nforce AGP filter because its not
compatible and needs to be resolved before i can run the
xp professional setup cd again. Tried downloading from
Microsoft and Nvidia websites but nothing seems to work
so far.

I've checked my system and my graphics controller is an
intel 845g/gl nothing shows on my system for this nforce
driver that i need or maybe i'm missing it but can't see
where.
search for the aforementioned filter driver in home and
Click to expand...
rename all entrys found,dont forget to set to look in
hidden and system files
 
You enable/disable it in the bios. To get to the bios, most motherboards
have a key you hit while the computer is booting up. The most common Ive
seen are Del (the delete key) or F8 or F2. 95% of the time I would say the
Del key.

Anyways, there are several screens you can go through in regards to your
computer. My video option to enable or disable the built in video fell into
a catagory called Peripherials. I simply highlighted the Peripherials
screen. That brought up the computers built in bios options in regards to
the video and other devices such as sound. In the video case, I simply
highlighted the built in video and it prompted me to either enable it or
disable it. I chose disable and all was fine. When I got a sound card, the
same process was repeated to disable the onboard sound. Just remember to
save your changes and exit the bios. The computer should reboot on its own
once you save and exit. This saves the new parameters you just set into the
computers bios. So, when it starts the next time and from there on after,
it will "not" look for a built in video card and will look instead for an
alternative one being a PCI or AGP video card. Newer motherboards also have
an option in the bios to tell the computer to look at one or the other
first. I have my computer set to disable the onboard video, disable the
onboard sound, and look at the AGP slot first.

It should be straight forward. Look at the bottom of the bios screen for
going about how to alter the settings. For example, to toggle the
enable/disable options, I have to hit the Page up/ Page down keys. Yours
may differ a little, but they are usually pretty similar for almost every
motherboard.

Hope it helps,
SL
 
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