Hi Mike, Check out Software Central for the UCB Microsoft Work At Home program: https://software.berkeley.edu/microsoft
Every Faculty/Staff should know that they're entitled to install Microsoft software on a home computer under this particular campus licensing agreement. Ignore the details from that article wrt "matching the version in system properties". I think what the person was trying to suggest was using OEM media that matches the hardware vendor in attempt to avoid having to provide a product key. It's irrelevant in this case because you will get retail ISO and a product key. Thanks, Michael Sent from my mobile phone. On Mar 15, 2015, at 6:58 PM, Mike Friedman <[email protected]> wrote: On 2015-03-15 18:16, Michael Chung wrote: Hi Mike, Based on the article you referenced below, it’s not the Core 2 Quad CPU that was the problem (in that scenario), but the motherboard. Michael, I wasn't assuming the article dealt with the same processor I have. But the general issue raised alarms for me. I did a little more searching and it does seem like there are reports of folks being able to install Windows 8.1 (x64) on the XPS 630. [1] [1] http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/19608364 You could always utilize your Work at Home privileges to download copy of Windows 8.1 for testing on this computer. You wouldn’t even get to the activation step if there was a hardware support problem so your product key would remain unused. I had already found that posting. But downloading a Windows 8.1 ISO file seems to require that you already have a Windows 8.1 system. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the article referred to in the above posting, but it does say this: *In order to perform a successful installation you need to use the .iso which matches the version in system properties* Are they talking about the system running on my XPS630i? But that machine is running Windows 7. Also, I don't know what you mean by Work at Home privileges. Could you clarify? Thanks. Mike -- Mike [email protected]http://mikefberkeley.com
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