Win 7 64bit for Sys Buildr

[readyrover]

I have contacted Gigabyte who no longer upgrades the BIOS and states that my motherboard is not going to be made Win7 compliant. Model is GA-K8U. Yet, when I ran the Win7 upgrade advisor, it only suggested 64 bit drivers for the video card. I assume, therefore, that the upgrade advisor doesn't check the bios as well? Is there a workaround for this..I get the blue screen error when trying to install on old drive and it simply doesn't run setup on the brand new drive.

2nd problem- I am trying to install Win XP Pro on another box and had my old Win98 cd (which i used for verification previously on the upgrade) take a walk to the garbage can accidentally in a box my wife threw away. Yes, the dog REALLY did eat my homework. Once in a blue moon...it's true. Is there another way to legally get the upgrade to install? Perhaps via a phone call to MS activation support?

 

[ViRGE]

The update adviser doesn't check BIOSes; in fact it doesn't seem to know a lot about motherboards beyond the chipset.

As for your update dilemma, I don't believe MS support can bypass the upgrade media check since that's hard-coded into the installer rather than being a license check. Your best bet is to find someone with a copy of Windows that satisfies the upgrade media (95, 98, ME, or 2K).

 

[readyrover]

Thanks, Virge. One reason I bought the full version of Win 7 64 bit was to eliminate having this very thing happen. I build systems for my family, inlaws, cousins, etc., and I went the upgrade path with them from previous OS versions and I started running into this very thing. I used to keep a copy of 98SE because I was at home with dos and the many variations of things that could be altered to each individual. I think if I run across any older windows versions that someone is throwing away, I'll hang onto them. It would be instructive to have them all on a multi boot teaching computer for the grandkids to see the history and evolution of the process...if I can tear them away from their iPads, etc..haha.