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How to Upgrade Vostro XP to Win 7 with downgrade licence
We have a Vostro 230MT using XP and I want to upgrade to Win 7. The PC was purchased with an "English Windows 7 Professional (32Bit) to WXP Professional SP3 (Downgrade)" licence. How do I upgrade with this type of licence - should I be looking for a Win 7 installation disk that originally came with the PC or should the factory restore image by Win 7 and I simply restore to that?
Thanks
glnz
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May 17th, 2014 12:00
Philip - FYI - At your page above for Win 7-compatible drivers for the Optiplex 755, at least three of the links to Intel pages don't work any more: Chipset, Q35 Graphics controller, and Broadcom ethernet.
Any updates?
Sorry to ask, but your page was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks.
speedstep
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May 17th, 2014 13:00
Almost all of the Optiplex 755 drivers are native to WIN7 or 8 EXCEPT the CHIPSET , AMT HECI SOL Drivers.
The "PCI Serial Port Driver is not actually a Serial Port"
Its the Intel AMT HECI & AMT SOL/LMS Hardware.
The Current Driver for this works with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 32 and 64 bit.
One Size Fits all.
Operating Systems
Windows 7 32-bit
Windows 7 64-bit
Windows Vista 32-bit
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows XP
Windows XP x64
Chipset
ftp.us.dell.com/.../R174616.exe
AMT-HECI
ftp.us.dell.com/.../Intel_AMT-HECI_A02_R255437.exe
AMT-SOL
ftp.us.dell.com/.../Intel_AMT-SOL--LMS_A02_R255438.exe
Hard Drive Installation (via WinZip) with Setup.exe File for Intel_AMT-HECI_A02_R255437.exe
Download
1.Click Download Now, to download the file.
2.When the File Download window appears, click Save (Windows XP
users will click Save) this program to disk and click OK. The Save In:
window appears.
3.From the Save In: field, click the down arrow then click to
select Desktop and click Save. The file will download to your desktop.
4.If the Download Complete window appears, click Close. The file
icon appears on your desktop.
Install
1.Double-click the new icon on the desktop labeled Intel_AMT-HECI_A02_R255437.exe.
2.The Self-Extracting window appears and prompts you to extract or
unzip to C:\DELL\DRIVERS\R255437. Write down this path so the executable (I.e.
Setup.exe) file can be found later.
3.The Self-Extractor window appears.
4.Click OK.
5.After completing the file extraction, if the Self-Extractor
window is still open, close it.
6.Click the Start button and then click Run.
7.Type C:\DELL\DRIVERS\R255437 in the Open textbox and then click OK.
8.Follow the on-screen installation instructions.
Philip_Yip
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May 18th, 2014 03:00
All the links work for me, I just checked:
http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/driver-sets/optiplex-desktops/optiplex-755-windows-7-64-bit/
There was nothing wrong with the Intel Chipset Device Software. What issue did you have?
Bare in mind that the driver for the Broadcom Ethernet is inbuilt to Windows 7 and its either or with the Broadcom or Intel Ethernet.
The Intel video driver is a variant and if you have a dedicated graphics card won't install as it'll be disabled.
glnz
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May 18th, 2014 10:00
Philip - The Intel links are working now. Maybe the Error-Server Down messages I got yesterday were correct and Intel was only offline for a few hours.
Thanks again!
Philip_Yip
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May 19th, 2014 21:00
Great, thanks for letting me know that you got them. :emotion-21:
speedstep
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May 22nd, 2014 08:00
There are No cross platform upgrades for any version of windows aka X86 to X64 or X64 to X86. There are also NO Upgrades from XP to windows 7 any version you have to do a clean install.
Windows7 / 8 Requires Vista SP2 to upgrade and it must match 32 bit or 64 bit.
Windows 8.1 Requires windows 7 SP1 to upgrade.
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May 22nd, 2014 13:00