upgrading from XP Home to XP Professional

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mlphilips

I am running Windows XP Home on a HP Pavilion 743C and am
trying to update to Windows XP Professional because of
privacy issues. I am getting a message that Nvidia
NForce in installed on my computer and is not compatible
with Windows XP Professional. I went to NVidia's web
page and updated my driver but still got the same error
code. HP is telling me that they do not support Windows
XP Professional and that my alternative is to talk to
Microsoft about this issue. Has anyone else run across
this and how did you get around it?
 
Nvidia is compatabile with WinXPpro. It's just the driver you are using.
If you have a older card, try the older drivers.
Stick with the WHQL MS approved. Go to www.guru3d.com Try the 31.40
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Hi,

For the interim, uninstall the Nvidia drivers and install just a standard
VGA. Then do the upgrade and reinstall a full driver set afterwards.

Also, it is generally not recommended to install retail versions on OEM
machines. This is because retail versions are often missing needed drivers
for the OEM hardware. I'd strongly urge you to consider carefully what you
are doing, and make sure you can find the needed driver sets.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
mlphilips said:
I am running Windows XP Home on a HP Pavilion 743C and am
trying to update to Windows XP Professional because of
privacy issues. I am getting a message that Nvidia
NForce in installed on my computer and is not compatible
with Windows XP Professional. I went to NVidia's web
page and updated my driver but still got the same error
code. HP is telling me that they do not support Windows
XP Professional and that my alternative is to talk to
Microsoft about this issue. Has anyone else run across
this and how did you get around it?
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It should be technically impossible to write a video driver that is
compatible with Windows XP Home and is not compatible with Windows XP
Pro.

Insofar as I am aware the only way to do this is to have the driver do
a detailed check of the Windows version and force it to produce the
incompatibility error if XP Pro is found.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
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