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Keith S asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 1 decade ago

Windows Vista 34bit to 64bit install?

Has anyone personal experience of upgrading Vista Beta 2 x86 (32bit) to x64 (64bit)? I know it must be done as a clean install, but were their any major issues with drivers that are different to the x86 drivers for audio, printers etc?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Yes, I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 and it sucked to find drivers for the 64bit. I had to search for a long time to get drivers for the nforce 4 chipset (nvidia now offers them) but they were unstable. If you do not have an nforce platform it may be easier, i do not know. I do know that I formatted and went back to XP Pro ...

    Good Luck ...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I have run the Windows XP 64 bit platform om my system which is an AMD 2800 1.6g 400mhz Semprom 64bit processor

    Asus K8V-MX motherboard

    1gb DDR 400 memory

    3x 200gig hard drives

    It is a good operating system but very hard to get system drivers for you will find that most of you perifers drivers will not work and most manufactures will not over updated drivers due to vista release shortly I now run XP Media Center which I find is just as good hope to have been of help to you

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  • 4 years ago

    certain, you want to position in the operating equipment from scratch, yet except you've sixty 4 bit application there is not a lot benefit to it. I did it on my equipment and observed not a lot if any progression in %. 32 bit classes will deploy on the operating equipment, yet do not grant higher performance, so I went back to the 32 bit version. also the O.S. makes 2 instruments of application documents. One for 32 bit and one for sixty 4 bit, so it used so a lot extra disk area. So, i desirous to attend till most of the classes are sixty 4 bit.

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