Windows Vista They're kidding....right??

I'm running XP home on:

Asus M2A-VM motherboard
2gig Corsair XMS DDR2 (two one gig sticks)
drive 0: Maxtor 320g SATA (partitioned in half)
drive 1: Maxtor 500g SATA (partitioned in half)
Nvidia Geforce 8500 GT (I'm not a gamer)
AMD 64X2 2.5GHz duo core 4800+
Belkin wirless g network card

Thought I'd upgrade to Vista Home Premium. Ran it from XP, entered product key and it started to load, then stopped and said it couldn't upgrade because it couldn't (if I remember right) modify the boot.ini file. I was trying to install on the logical partition of the first drive so that I could have both XP and Vista, so I selected the custom option/clean install.
So, I downloaded the Vista upgrade msi file and ran it. It recommended Vista basic and not the home premium version. Excuse me? What's wrong with my specs that I should only run Vista basic?? Not good enough for Home premium??
I finally loaded it the "backdoor" way with no problem. It's running fine (using it now). I was just surprised that I couldn't load it the correct way.
Anyone know why I would have this trouble? Just curious.....

 

Look in Control Panel -> Performance Information and Tools. It should say in which area the system is not "highly acceptable ".

I might expect that if you have any older added hardware connected, Vista may not be able to run it at high performance levels.

Go through updating the drivers, starting with the chipset drivers at Asus. If Asus do not have Vista versions, you could look for drivers at the hardware manufacturer's websites.

Matt

 

Thanks for your reply. The only "extra" component I have is the Belkin wireless G card, and the Geforce pci-e graphics card. I'll follow up on the Asus drivers for Vista on their website. I checked the device manager and there are "unknown device" warnings. Everything looks fine. But like you say, I'll check for the chipset update drivers.
Thanks Matt.........


***edit***Whoa, Asus website had Vista drivers for all the components (chipset, lan,audio,bios,bios updater,raid...). Thanks again Matt, don't know why I didn't think of looking there first.............duh.