Upgrade Dell Precision 380 To Windows 10?

[Brotuulaan]

With the Windows 10 cutoff coming up soon, we've been upgrading the various computers around our church. The last one to go is a Dell Precision 380, with an ATI FireGL V3100 graphics card (originally XP). We had one Win7 upgrade remaining on an old disc, and I got it that far. It's now almost fully updated in Win7, with a driver for the HP monitor we have paired with it being the last update that it asked for.

But both when we first installed Win7 and just yesterday (after all the updating), the Win10 helper said that the graphics are incompatible with Win10. I originally thought it was just an issue with being fully updated, but now it would seem that there is something else that's getting in the way.

I feel like I read a thread on here about a month ago that some people had said graphics card and had upgraded to Win10 (not sure of the rest of their system config), but I can't find it now.

Does anyone else have either a Dell Precision 380 or even just the ATI FireGL V3100 graphics card and been able to upgrade to Win10, and what issues/solutions did you find in the process?

I should have just posted this at the beginning and gotten the discussion going during the upgrade process, but it's not worth crying over spilt milk.

 

[Brotuulaan]

Found this suggestion, but I'd rather wait to try that until I don't see other options: https://windowsforum.com/threads/ati-firegl-v3100-possible-to-install-on-windows-10.215590/

And also, if you've worked with such graphics card and Win10 before, has it worked well for you? I know there's a certain point where it's not worth trying to mix old hardware and new software, but I don't know whether the break falls between 7 and 10 in this case.

The rest of the system specs met the minimum requirements for 10, and there were a few cases where the hardware exceeds said requirements.

Also, the current config within Win7 includes DirectX 11 and WDDM 1.0, which are the only official graphics requirements given by M$. Kinda confused as to why the system would say it's incompatible when it fits their publicized requirements.

 

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Bump! Time's running out!

 

[orlbuckeye]

With the Windows 10 cutoff coming up soon, we've been upgrading the various computers around our church. The last one to go is a Dell Precision 380, with an ATI FireGL V3100 graphics card (originally XP). We had one Win7 upgrade remaining on an old disc, and I got it that far. It's now almost fully updated in Win7, with a driver for the HP monitor we have paired with it being the last update that it asked for.

But both when we first installed Win7 and just yesterday (after all the updating), the Win10 helper said that the graphics are incompatible with Win10. I originally thought it was just an issue with being fully updated, but now it would seem that there is something else that's getting in the way.

I feel like I read a thread on here about a month ago that some people had said graphics card and had upgraded to Win10 (not sure of the rest of their system config), but I can't find it now.

Does anyone else have either a Dell Precision 380 or even just the ATI FireGL V3100 graphics card and been able to upgrade to Win10, and what issues/solutions did you find in the process?

I should have just posted this at the beginning and gotten the discussion going during the upgrade process, but it's not worth crying over spilt milk.

I had a PC that came with Vista and when I first reserved Windows 10 it said everything was ok . But finally when Windows 10 was released It said that Nvidia didn't plan to support their Nvidia 7600 anymore. I've tried 10 more time and it still says the same thing.

 

[Brotuulaan]

I hope somebody on here finds this and bothers to respond soon. But I suppose we're at least stuck on Win7 rather than XP if nothing else.

 

[Brotuulaan]

I just ran an optional update (Microsoft Security Essentials definitions), and there are no more updates at all. After that, I opened the Upgrade Assistant just for the heck of it (it now has a caution sign in the task tray), and the GUI was completely different from the last time I opened the assistant.

This time, it said that the system was compatible. Take another look at the Upgrade Assistant on your computer, and it may let you do the upgrade now. There's a part of me that's wondering whether they had certain hardware disallowed, hoping that you would buy a new computer, but now that it's only a few days out from the end of the free period, they've unlocked it.

If there are no optional updates for your system, see if there were some you opted out of in the past. Maybe one of them will trigger something and let you do the upgrade.