Conclusion: Windows 7 RTM is NOT ready for the consumer market. only to not complete and present me with the compatibility message once rolled back to Vista. It was then that I had to figure out the same back-door solution as proposed above, which the Windows 7 setup then also said they were compatible and continued. The "upgrade advisor" told me my systems were both compatible. Please go to and search for "upgrade advisor" to make sure your hardware is compatibile with this verstion of Windows. And what message was I prompted with when logging back into Vista 64-bit? Windows setup did not complete successfully. The in-place upgrade got all the way through the last step of installing/configuring drivers and hung there on both computers, prompting a hard boot and Setup didn't try to continue, rather it just auto selected "Previous Windows Version Rollback". I followed the same path as Bummed posted above (I saw a post that referenced this one after I went through the trouble) trying the in-place upgrade rather than a full clean install of Windows 7 since that doesn't get past the "CD/DVD driver not found" message and any attempts to grab the appropriate 64-bit drivers failed for unknown reason. Both pass the "upgrade advisor beta" for Windows 7 just fine, both pass the Windows 7 setup compatibility check as well - other than the information that things like Windows Mail will no longer work (funny, is MS going to now force everyone to buy MS Outlook for an e-mail client rather than web e-mail such as Windows Live Mail (Hotmail)?) So. The computers are both Intel Q6600 Quad-core PC's with 4GB RAM and Geforce 8800 GT OC video cards. I spent all day yesterday attempting the install of Windows 7 on two computers which should support Windows 7 with no problem. Big thanks to Amrooz and Java_az who were helping along the way!
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