VISTA Business 32 Upgrade from MVLS to Dell Precision 670 workstaion

The dell advisor listed no issues.

When I run the VISTA upgrade I get

You must make the follwing changes before installing windows

close windows installation go to programs and uninstall the following programs

Dell Storage Manager Driver

The compatibility report will be saved to current Windows desktop

Potential issues were detected with installed applications/devices

Windows Messenger 5.1

Intel(R) Network Configuration Services

nVidia Display drivers/nView Desktop Manager (NVIDIA Drivers)

Where is the dell storage manager driver and how do I dispose of it enough to do the VISTA upgrade?

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mikepromrhs

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November 22nd, 2006 14:00

I am also having this issue on a PW 470

Ulli

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November 22nd, 2006 16:00

I found a RAID manager in Programs/Dell but when I uninstalled it this made no apparent difference. I still got the same results (no conflcts) and the same Dell Storage manager driver issue on trying to upgrade.

I then downshifted the box to Windows 2000, formatted the hard drive, installed Windows 2000 SP4, updated the Dell Drivers, and then chose VISTA as a new Windows installation...

It seems cumbersome to me but I did get VISTA on the box... and once that was on the box I was able to run updates on it through Windows UPDATE services.

I have yet to attempt to get the SIGMATEL HD audio back - I hear that's a whole other issue.

I did get speakers with stereo on however so I may mess with that later.

I tried various AV test products but the one that appears to work and update correctly is from FSECURE.

gdpotter

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January 1st, 2007 23:00

I'm having the same problem (really annoying). I can't do the 2000 downgrade because I don't want to reformat my hard drive.

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