Posts by goldentrucker6

About a month ago, I made the jump to Windows Vista, and honestly? I’m hating it. I really want to roll back to XP, but I’ve hit a massive wall. I went into my BIOS and set the CD/DVD drive as the primary boot device, but it just won't trigger the installation. Every time I try to get it started, I just get stuck staring at this error message: "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Bood device and press a key."

So, I went back into the BOOT menu and tried rearranging things—CD/DVD at #1, SATA at #2, and the third option at #3. But now, when I power up the machine, I don't even get the prompt to "press a key" to start the installer. It just skips right past everything and boots straight into the OS like nothing happened. I can't seem to force this installation to launch no matter what I do.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
Also, would it be possible to install Windows 7 over Vista, and then maybe move from Windows 7 to Windows 7 XP?

Any other advice?

Hello there.

- I am quite new to this community, so please bear with me if I have posted in the wrong sub-forum or if I am accidentally starting a thread that has already been discussed. I am still getting the hang of navigating everything here.

My question is this:

- Will I be able to install Windows 7 on the following hardware configuration without any major issues?

-Memory (RAM): 1GB

-AMD Athlon(tm) Processor LE-1640 - 2.60 GHz

-Integrated RAMDAC GeForce 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a,

-Total Available Graphics Memory 319MB

-Dedicated Video Memory 128MB,

-Shared system memory 191 MB

- HDD Capacity 524 GB, which is about 488 GB usable

- I don't plan on using this machine for gaming or anything intensive; I just want to use it for Facebook, YouTube, watching movies (they don't need to be in HD), and putting together presentations in Microsoft Office.
- I won't be installing many programs either—just the ones I use regularly:

- Photoscape
- CCleaner
- Torrent client
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Office
- Google Chrome and Mozilla
- VLC Media Player, and perhaps one or two other small apps at most.

I am wondering if the system will struggle when watching videos or browsing Facebook. 🙂
And if Windows 7 isn't a good fit, which version of Windows should I look into installing instead? 🙂 Thanks.