02-26-2008
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RE: Upgrade to Vista Business from Vista Home Basic
You have onboard(or shared) Graphics(not a seperate Graphics Card), which
means that if you allocate 128-256MBs to graphics, it comes out of your RAM,
that is out of the 1024MBs that you have now.
There is room on your MOBO to add another 1024Mbs RAM; so, for the above
reasons, definitely add it!
As you are installing you will be asked for SATA drivers; they should be on
your MOBO drivers disk, if you got one from Toshiba, or at toshiba site..
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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia
"cacruiser" wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Your response is great. I was pretty sure that was what was needed. The
> specs on the laptop are:Operating System C1 2
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> Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic (32-bit version)
> Processor and Chipset3
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> Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor T2330
> o
> 1.60GHz, 1 MB L2, 533MHz FSB
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> Mobile Intel® GL960 Express Chipset
> Memory4
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> Configured with 1024MB PC5300 DDR2 SDRAM (both memory slots may be
> occupied). Maximum capacity 2048MB
> Hard Disk Drive5
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> 120GB (5400 RPM); Serial ATA hard disk drive
> Fixed Optical Disk Drive6
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> DVD SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) drive supporting 11 formats
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> Maximum speed and compatibility: CD-ROM (24x), CD-R (24x), CD-RW (16x),
> DVD-ROM (8x), DVD-R (Single Layer, (8x)), DVD-R (Double Layer, (4x)), DVD-RW
> (6x), DVD+R (Single Layer, (8x)), DVD+R (Double Layer, (4x)), DVD+RW (8x),
> DVD-RAM (5x)
> Display7
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> 15.4” diagonal widescreen TruBrite®TFT LCD display at 1280x800 native
> resolution (WXGA)
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> Native support for 720p content
> Graphics8
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> Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with 128MB-251MB dynamically
> allocated shared graphics memory
> NOT a high-end machine, but I am going to add another Gig of RAM before I do
> the clean install.
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> Do you know if there will be any SATA drive issues? The windows
> compatibility chart shows that the hard drive "Will work with Vista". Which
> it certainly does with Home Basic.
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> "Mick Murphy" wrote:
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> > Basic Home and Home Premium are not an upgrade path to Business.
> > You back up your data, delete the existing vista partition, format, and do a
> > compleate clean install
> >
> > Before you do this, make sure that your laptop has at least 1Gig of RAM, and
> > 128MBs of Graphics, and that is the bare minimum!
> >
> > What are your system specs?
> > You don't get high-end hardware specs with Vista Basic.
> > --
> > Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia
> >
> >
> > "cacruiser" wrote:
> >
> > > I have a new Toshiba laptop with Vista Home Basic pre-installed. I want to
> > > upgrade to Vista Business. The system easily meets the min specs. Will I
> > > have to track down drivers for this change or should Business have enough
> > > included? I understand that at the least I will have to do a Clean Install.
> > > Has anyone done this type of change?
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