Thats what I thought. Feel sorry for those who fall for it.

" And it's even listed on the system requeirments that you need a 128 or more video card to run Vista Home Premium "

 

You will need the 128 MB Video Card to run Aero Glass. You can however run Vista Home basic without Aero Glass.

 

pcgeek11

Dell also has a Vista readiness test (advisor).  Run that and see what it says.  I ran both of them before upgrading and the Dell found a problem with my BIOS (that a BIOS update fixed), even tho my E510 was sold by Dell as "Vista Ready".

 

I have a 256Mb video card so I didn't have an issue with that.

 

For the record, Vista is running great on my E510 and I had very little problems upgrading.

What?

vistadog

 

That makes no sense whatsoever!   NONE.

 

pcgeek11

Well I did run the Dell test and everything it said was right, I can't believe the other (Microsoft) one told me my video card was good to run Vista Aero. You think it is a well trusted source since it's a Microsoft Software that you are buying.:smileytongue:

Richardm1981, I believe you on what you said, my reference was meant for vistadog and I concur with pcgeek11.

 

Anyway, between the two advisors the truth lies somewhere in between I believe. My situation when I ran both advisors with my origional video card (7300LE). It was stated it had 256MB but shared 128MB with the system to get the 256MB total (card is 128MB dedicated ram). Microsoft said I was fine and Dell said I needed to upgrade the card to one with 256MB dedicated ram. Take that for what it's worth.

 

The bottom line is my origional card ran Vista with aero just fine. Not a good card thats why I upgraded. Both advisors are subjective as such are the motives behind each rating.

Hi all
{HiperMemory}
After reading this post i did some testing on a Dell insprion 1501 laptop
that came with Vista 32 bit basic HAS ON AREO and had 1 gig of ram i have
changed it to 2.0 gig,s.
I did the testing with the 1 gig that was on it.
When i tested it with just 512 mb,s of ram it shows the video built in
as only having 64 mb video on board,i could not figure that out so i did more

testing and came up with this
ATI X 1150 Integrated series with {HiperMemory} as in the video card will get more

ram from your system ram and use it to run the Video better.
00  mb & 128 mb of ram system would not boot.
32  mb & 256 mb of ram Vista would not boot.
64  mb & 512 MB of ram ddr no areo
IT changed to 128 on board here.
128 mb & 1.0 gig of ram ddr2 with areo vista Ultimate
128 mb & 1.5 gig,s of ram ddr2 with areo
128 mb & 2.0 gig,s of ram ddr2 with areo
All of the testing was with the 32 bit Dell ATI R142469.EXE driver 
& the 64 bit ATI driver 7.4
with Vista and had different scores for above. 
My laptop Dell Inspiron 1501
Vista Ultimate 64 bit areo score
Processor -         4.6
Memory(Ram) -       5.1
Graphics -          2.8
Gaming Graphics -   3.1
Primary hard disk - 4.5  120 gig sata drive
Base Score is -     2.8
Display settings advanced settings
total available Graphics 831 mb
Dedicated on board 128 mb this would change with + or - system ram
system video memory 0   mb
shared system memory     703 mb
Vista Basic 32 bit no areo score if it were Home Premium ,Business,Ultimate it would have areo. 
Processor -         4.6
Memory(Ram) -       5.2
Graphics -          2.7
Gaming Graphics -   3.1
Primary hard disk - 4.4  120 gig sata drive
Base Score is -     2.7
Display settings advanced settings
total available Graphics 831 mb
Dedicated on board       128 mb same here + or -
system video memory 0   mb
shared system memory     703 mb
Your system will very from what mine is.
If you think your computer will not run Vista with AREO on a ATI VIDEO 64 mb [hipermemory]
on board card or intergrated do your home work on it.
The Vista upgrade advisor is more than likely right try the Dell or ati advisor
it will tell you the samething.  As kpo127 says take it for what is worth Dells upgrade advisor

said my D 8400 with a ati x1600 pro with [[512]] on the card will not run Vista with areo {what} right sell me a new card Dell !
See Yea !

The problem isn’t that my system can’t run Vista Aero because I knew it can’t from the start but of how reliable or unreliable these programs are from testing your system.  OK, for example is like two people telling each other different things like if you go to best buy and see the Vista Home Premium box, you’ll notice somewhere on it that it states system requirements and for video memory I’m 100% sure that it would say something like you need a 128 mb of video memory or more to run Vista Aero because I’ve since this before myself but I just wanted to see how reliable these system check list were and I was amazed of the results saying that my video card is Vista Aero ready for a 64 mb video memory card. That itself tells me that it’s unreliable, before any upgrades one should always seek out my info.