Post by irfan83 on Apr 11, 2008 5:51:30 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
Just bought a Dell XPS 720 H2C yesterday as I bust my old computer's motherboard and CPU. There's some issues I am having with it right now and I'd appreciate any help I can get from here.
Firstly, the computer came with WIndows Vista Home Premium, 32bit. I purchased Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit upgrade for my old computer and want to use this for the new computer to take advantage of the extra RAM.
When I've disabled the multi-CPU in the BIOS (Vista upgrade CD doesn't work with it enabled), I reboot the computer with the upgrade CD, I've tried entering the serial number and on the next screen where you select the partitions it says the product serial number isn't valid and I cannot upgrade at all.
So I've tried it again without entering a serial number. I get to install Vista Ultimate as a fresh install, however after installation when the computer goes to reboot there will be a bank screen with a cursor flashing at the top. The computer just hangs. When I've turned the computer off and on, the computer tries to load Vista but I get a blue screen for a split second and the computer just crashes.
Any ideas what could be causing the above?
Secondly, the XPS 720 H2C comes with 2x 500Gb hard drives in a RAID 0. My old computer had 2x 200Gb and 1x 750Gb (in partitions) in a RAID 0. The RAID was set up by plugging the hard drives in the three SATA connections on the motherboard and configured through Vista Ultimate 64bit. There is a lot of university work on there that I really need.
How many hard drives can I connect into the XPS 720 H2C, keeping the existing hard drives and CD drives or maybe even removing some to free up connectors and space? Would I be able to retrieve the data from the old RAID 0?
Thirdly, what have people overclocked the system to? I've tried using nTune but it fails to load up and the Nvidia monitor says something needs to be enabled in the BIOS for it to load up.
Again any ideas how I can solve this? Any help is appreciated!
Just bought a Dell XPS 720 H2C yesterday as I bust my old computer's motherboard and CPU. There's some issues I am having with it right now and I'd appreciate any help I can get from here.
Firstly, the computer came with WIndows Vista Home Premium, 32bit. I purchased Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit upgrade for my old computer and want to use this for the new computer to take advantage of the extra RAM.
When I've disabled the multi-CPU in the BIOS (Vista upgrade CD doesn't work with it enabled), I reboot the computer with the upgrade CD, I've tried entering the serial number and on the next screen where you select the partitions it says the product serial number isn't valid and I cannot upgrade at all.
So I've tried it again without entering a serial number. I get to install Vista Ultimate as a fresh install, however after installation when the computer goes to reboot there will be a bank screen with a cursor flashing at the top. The computer just hangs. When I've turned the computer off and on, the computer tries to load Vista but I get a blue screen for a split second and the computer just crashes.
Any ideas what could be causing the above?
Secondly, the XPS 720 H2C comes with 2x 500Gb hard drives in a RAID 0. My old computer had 2x 200Gb and 1x 750Gb (in partitions) in a RAID 0. The RAID was set up by plugging the hard drives in the three SATA connections on the motherboard and configured through Vista Ultimate 64bit. There is a lot of university work on there that I really need.
How many hard drives can I connect into the XPS 720 H2C, keeping the existing hard drives and CD drives or maybe even removing some to free up connectors and space? Would I be able to retrieve the data from the old RAID 0?
Thirdly, what have people overclocked the system to? I've tried using nTune but it fails to load up and the Nvidia monitor says something needs to be enabled in the BIOS for it to load up.
Again any ideas how I can solve this? Any help is appreciated!