No Sound After Upgrading From XP Home SP3 To Windows 7 Home Premium SP1
Jan 6, 2012
Recently ive decided that Well i should upgrade this computer. give it a bit of ..well style.But since ive upgraded to Windows 7 there has been no sound whatsoever. Ive downloaded countless driver programs which tell you what sound card you have and not one has detected it. IVE ALSO downloaded drivers for the Windows 7 version of my sound (Realtek AC97) and ran windows updates and NONE worked. ive ran the troubleshooter on the sound thing...STILL not detecting any sound card. i tried changing the audio in BIOS from auto - enabled....nothing.
I have sort of a special case here. I purchased my HP laptop in Thailand, and much to my chagrin it came installed with Windows 7 Home Basic. In addition, the HP store which sold me the laptop installed 4gb of RAM neglecting to tell me that the 32bit version of 7 only supported up to 3. At any rate, I am hoping to upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 Bit edition.But while there is a glut of information online about how to upgrade from Starter, there is little to nothing about Home Basic. Do I have to buy a full copy of 7 Home Premium 64 Bit? Can I buy an Anytime Upgrade that is meant for Starter and apply it to my computer?
Yesterday I was messing around on my brand-new laptop, and I was stupid enough to try a keygen to get Ultimate (I had HP). Surprising. It worked but the copy wasn't genuine obviously. So then I rebooted, pressed F8 at boot. An ran Toshibas recovery to try to get the computer to its out of box state. I got stuck at initializomg (either that or I was impaptient) so I turned off the laptop. Then when I truer to boot I got bootmgr is missing. I have an old vista Hp disk so I installed that for the time being. So my question is, how do I get it back to the original state? I do t have any important data or anything.
Is it a big deal to upgrade from Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit to Windows 7 Professional after first setting up your computer? I just bought my computer, which has Home Premium. I intend to buy the upgrade, but I want to wait until I get my school email, probably in a month or so, so I can buy the discounted "Academic" Pro upgrade. I would, however, like to set up my computer now just to see how it works.
Having used the Microsoft upgrade advisor, I bought a download of Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit. I created the ISO disk as advised and started the installation. The installation seems to go fine until the end when I get the message that upgrade was unsuccessful and Vista is being restored. No other message is given. Antivirus (Kaspersky) is turned off for the install. Its starting to drive me mad...
i just wanted to ask one simple question, and that is, " How can i upgrade windows 7 home premium to windwos 7 ultimate without losing any data, programs, movies, music and documents on my hard drive?" when i boot from cd and install, does it keep everything?
Admittedly I feel a little late to the party with Windows 7 (what with 8 being on the horizon) but after several years (!) of plugging away with Vista Home Premium on my laptop (used every day for work), I'm at the point where I need to update it.Don't have the money to replace it outright, and it's also recently had a new HDD and RAM upgrade, so I'm exploring the possibility of finally upgrading to Win 7 (particularly seeing as mainstream support of Vista has now finished).From what I understand, a clean install of Win 7 is probably better than an update over Vista (and I am happy to do a clean install as I have all programs and everything backed up), but the one thing I am unsure of is whether I can jump to 64-bit Win 7 Professional with the hardware specs of my machine.The laptop is an Acer 5103WLMi with the following spec (from System Information): [code] The Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor report seems to indicate that upgrading to 64-bit is possible on a custom install, but the IT tech I spoke to at work says that because System Information lists the System Type as 'X86-based PC' that it can only use a 32-bit version of Windows.
In case anyone is running into issues trying to upgrade Windows 7 Home Premium to Ultimate, I did the following things and got it to work. I ran into the "Can't upgrade. Need clean install" issue, and the "you have a later version" issue.
1. Changed the two registry keys in Hkey Local MachineSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsNTCurrentVersion Changed Edition ID to "Enterprise".Product Name to "Windows 7 Enterprise"
2. Browsed the Windows 7 Ultimate CD directory, found the Setup.exe file, right mouse clicked it, selected "properties", and told 7 that I wanted to run this file in Vista Version 2.
Then ran setup from Windows 7 Home Premium.You obviously need an upgrade license for this to work, but I had just purchased one.
I just did a clean install of Win 7 Home and everything went smoothly but I have 32 gigs installed and it shows 32 but says only 16 are available. I am told this is directly because of a limitation in Win 7 home. so I have two questions:
1) is their anyway to modify Win 7 home so I can access all 32 gigs? 2) if I use an anytime upgrade to Win 7 pro will there be any issues? I have read that upgrades sometimes have unpredictable results, will that be likely even though I have a clean install? so far the only software loaded is a handful of drivers for the hardware.
I am going to be buying a new laptop in the next few weeks, but would like to query about upgrading from the shipped 32-Bit OS to a 64-Bit version.
The laptop I am considering is the HP Pavilion DM1-4020sa (4GB, 500GB, 1.65GHz), which comes with Windows 7 Home Premium 32.
My questions are thus:
1 - Is it possible to upgrade easily to 64-bit Home Premium from the 32-bit version supplied, or does it require purchasing discs?
2 - If I upgrade to Home Premium 64-bit, can I use the same product key as provided with the laptop, or is a new key required?
If I cannot upgrade to Home Premium 64, I will consider using my student status to get a good deal on Professional or Ultimate (via software4students): 3 - Is it possible to use the retail "Upgrade" disks to upgrade from one Windows 7 version to another (In this case HP32 to Pro64), or is that strictly for upgrades from previous versions of Windows?
I would like to know if it is possible to recover the Win 7 home premium key after the computer has been upgraded to Win 7 Pro.When the company started we were using win 7 home premium for our computers, as we grew we needed to install a win 2008 server and upgrade all of our workstation to Win 7 pro.The problem I have is that 3 of the computer we have don't have the Win 7 home Premium label on them and we have already upgraded them to win 7 Pro.I have already try using key finder software however they only give me the win 7 pro key.The annoying thing about upgrading from home to pro is that if you need to reinstall windows you cannot use the upgrade key you need to use the home premium key and afterward do the upgrade to pro.how I could recover the missing keys ?
having a fully up and running version of Win 7 x64 Home Premium I can use a full DVD of Windows 7 x64 Ultimate to upgrade? Or would I have to do a full wipe and start all over again?
I have a dell one 19' all-in-one which has dell oem win 7 home premium what i need to know is can I buy a dell resource disk win 7 pro from thebay install it and use the win 7 home premium serial # from the bottom of the dell to activate the 7 pro?
I am running Windows Vista Home Premium on my Dell Inspiron 1721. Can I upgrade to windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit software. I have purchased Windows 7 Ultimate and received both 32 and 64 bit software discs.
I just purchased a PC with Win 7 Home Premium pre-installed. In the meantime, I was able to purchase a copy of Win 7 Ultimate through my campus bookstore for a good price! How do I go about upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate? Both versions are 64-bit.I do have a physical disk with Win 7 Ultimate. So, please do not direct me to Microsoft's Universal Upgrade Program for Win 7.
I would like to upgrade my current system to Ultimate not sure what problems I may encounter.Current version is Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium with all updates current.I have a retail version of Windows 7 Ultimate but it doesn't indicate if it is with sp1.Is it possible to upgrade without having to re-install programs etc?
while installing 7 H.P. it gets to completing installation then freezes up after computer reboots a warning message appears stating windows 7 has failed to install and resume after reboot, and then the same warning message appears.
I tried the roll back installation option and a message flashes on and off to quickly to read. and Vista will not come up to start over.
I just bought my Acer laptop 5057G Windows 7 Home Premium 32 last December. I just woke up one day and my laptop don't have sound when I play videos and music, and I can't surf the internet at all though I am connected to the internet. It says, Error 324(net: ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connetion without sending any data.
a couple of weeks ago i bought and downloaded a copy of the "systweak advanced system optimizer" and after using it to 'optimize' my system it instead screwed it up big time... now my sound crackles and stutters when i play all media, online or offline, dvds, Internet, games, etc...i've tried the usual methods, such as rolling back drivers, uninstalling all the audio drivers (nvidia and realtek) restarting and letting windows 7 reinstall them, all to no avail my motherboard uses integrated realtek audio sound, i have been using win 7 with no sound issues since early 2010, and now this happens?
I was wondering if reinstalling windows home premium would work, as I have tried disabling drivers, uninstalling and reinstalling drivers. Checked everything on control panel.
I successfully bought the upgrade version of Windows 7 Home Premium N, downloaded and extracted it and now I want to install it.
When I choose UPDATE in the intallation dialog it tells me that I cannot upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium ???
Every website from Windows and other people tells me that it IS possible and even the Windows 7 Update Advisor told me that I should not encounter any problems upgrading.
Has anyone of you yet encountered upgrading problems of compatible Vista/7 versions?
Or any other idea what I can do to solve the problem?!
I know that I can make a clean intall of 7, but this would be a pain..
I have an HP m9060n quad core running Vista 32 bit. I recently purchased windows 7 home premium 64 bit. I boot the PC from the install disk and it says loading files then it goes to a black screen that says "Starting Windows" but it never moves from that screen. What could be wrong? And also I checked that my computer is capable of running a 64 bit system.
I purchased a new Hard Drive, and I installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it.I recently purchased an upgrade that upgraded Windows 7 Home Premium into Windows 7 Professional.I still have Windows Vista on my other Laptop, and I was wondering if I could re-use Windows 7 Home Premium to upgrade my vista into Windows 7.
In other words, I am going to maintain Windows 7 Professional on Laptop One(which I upgraded after I installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it) while being able to update Laptop Two from Windows Vista into the Windows 7 Home Premium that I upgraded into Windows 7 Professional.
I bought a notebook preinstalled Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, of course, licensed.But I found it incompatible with some software. So I decided to use 32 bit.I want to format the whole drive and install 32 bit version of W7HP.
I'm french and i already owns Seven Home Premium N (Full french DVD version with a key).I recently bought Seven Home Premium on Amazon UK (Full non N version, the E uropeen version). This version is entirely in English.As you can see, my english is not so good to have a full non-french system. I would like to use my own french Home Premium N to install my Premium english key.Anyone know if it it possible to enter a Premium key with a Premium N DVD ?
i already owns Seven Home Premium N (Full french DVD version with a key).I recently bought Seven Home Premium on Amazon UK (Full non N version, the E uropeen version). This version is entirely in English.As you can see, my english is not so good to have a full non-french system. I would like to use my own french Home Premium N to install my Premium english key.
My granddaughter just purchased an Asus netbook and it came with Windows 7 Starter Edition installed...Is there any way to upgrade the operating system to Win 7 Home Edition? There is no DVD drive in this computer.
I recently upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 Home 64bit.My problem is that before I upgraded, my computer supported and I was running a resolution of 1920x1080.After the upgrade, the highest my resolution will go is 1280x1024.Is there anyway I could get back up to my MAX resolution?
