R2 to R7 upgrade

[gshaheen]

I have a customer with an old Legend with an R2 processor.
I need to upgrade them to an R7, so I backed up the Processor config to my laptop using the backup-file procedure via win-SPM (ver 8). so far, so good...

When I go to convert the R2 backup file to an R7 convert file, It looks like its going to work, but at the end of the convert I get an Error message saying invalid.

I know I can't actually upgrade the R2 Processor into an R7, but I was hoping to be able to perform a backup, a convert, and then restore to another processor that was already at R7.

Am I missing something here? I have done a lot of upgrades and backups on Legends and Magix, but have honestly never attempted go from an R2 to an R7!

Thanks.

 

[merlinman]

I know of nothing that would prevent this from working.

The R7 didn't care what cards the R2 would have.

Have you tried to do a 2nd back up and convert?

Perhaps the back up file has been corrupted.

Email it to me and let me see if it fails in a different computer, What do you think?

 

[jrosslexiconact]

The release seven has to run on a system that has either a CKE 4 or 5 processor. (This means r5 or 6 +). They actually addressed this particular issue in a class that I took once.

 

[gshaheen]

Merlinman,
I did try a 2nd backup and it did the same thing.
I will try it again on another laptop and maybe a different version of SPM?
Thanks for your kind offer! I will take you up on it if I dont have any luck.

 

[merlinman]

Well, while they teach the CKE4 or 5, it can be loaded onto a CKE3, but you will not like the results if you ever try to use the "HIGHER DENSITY" modules. (016 MLX and the like will not come up fully)

 

[ttech]

The issue is the backup wont even convert to a newer release. Did you try steps? Like convert to let say an R4 to see if it works then go up from there. It may be worh a try.

 

[Ghostin]

There were some known issues in trying to upgrde an R1 or R2. Last one i did, I had to reprogramm from scratch.

 

[gshaheen]

I tried using a different laptop with a different version of SPM and it seemed to work OK.
Thanks for the input from everyone.