Windows 10 Upgrade Incompatibility: Not Enough RAM

[kjv1611]

On one desktop, I've got 4GB Ram (it's a little old - Core 2 Duo E6750, 4GB DDR2 RAM, graphics card that's about to die, etc). I did the reserve for Windows 10 on the machine a while back. Now when I open the Windows 10 Upgrade app, it says it's incompatible b/c it doesn't have enough RAM.

I went to the Windows 10 Specs, and it's pretty low - 1GHz CPU, 1GB Ram, 12GB free space for 32 bit, 20GB free space for 64GB, maybe something else.

I found at least one online reference stating if you uninstalled the Windows 10 Upgrade Update (I forget the KB bulletin number), then reinstalled it, you could suddenly get it to work correctly. The blog post said it was a bug.

Has anyone else run into this? Any thoughts or ideas as to how to get around it? I don't mind keeping that machine at Windows 7, and I might anyway, but I'd like to see what causes that bug and how to get around it. Perhaps the actual Windows 10 Media / Media Maker will get around it while the notifier update for some reason doesn't. Could I have deleted or modified some file that seemed to affect nothing else, but does this app? I guess that's possible.

"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:57

 

[strongm]

>1GB Ram

That's for 32bit. It's 2GB for 64bit. Not that this should be a problem.

Current fix, as you mention, is still advised to be to uninstall KB3035583 (yes, the Get Windows 10 program), then reinstall through Windows Update

 

[kjv1611]

I tried the uninstall, then reboot, then go back through updates, let it reinstall, and says same thing.

I have pondered 2 other alternatives:
1. Use the USB Flash drive I've got now to do the install, see how that goes. If it fails, I don't think I'm terribly concerned anyway right now, since the desktop is no longer my "main" computer.
2. This is what I think I'll try first just to see: Uninstall update, clean-up, then reboot, and then do the update again. My thought is that if I do this route, perhaps there is some odd flake of cache file or registry setting that is not being removed during the uninstall. I'll probably try it first just to see, so I'll know for future reference.




"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:57

 

[linney]

Is there some problem with the Pagefile settings?

Customize the pagefile.sys in Windows 10 (paging file)?

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=faq-Windows-10&faq=52

Understanding the Windows Pagefile and Why You Shouldn't Disable It

http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it

Upgrading from Build 9841 - Insufficient RAM Error.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...am-error/e4b74de9-06dd-4f69-a4de-69d233e7f50c

Get Windows 10 app bug - not enough RAM

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ough-ram/1929bc62-ff32-455f-8b30-75a2389cd5eb

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=...s&ie=&oe=&gfe_rd=cr&ei=XSK9VaWoPLLu8wfdibGYDQ

 

[rclarke250]

You should be able to use the usb thumb drive, I downloaded it day 1 and have used it to upgrade a few of my computers, no issues, running great. Did have to install a driver for the laptops touchpad, but that has been the only driver not found during the initial setup.

 

[kjv1611]

Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't think about the page file settings either.

I'll see what I figure out over the next few days.

"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:57

 

[dilettante]

You should be able to use the usb thumb drive...

Wasn't sure where you were going with this. Readyboost? I guess that's still a feature in Win10, though I haven't tried it.

 

[strongm]

No, I believe the USB installer is what is being suggested.

 

[dilettante]

I wondered how that related to "Not enough RAM" but I see it was about bypassing the capability test front-ending the online updater.

 

[rclarke250]

Yes, the USB installer, if you don't want to wait for the files to download in the background, and wait for Microsoft to tell you can install it, you can download an .iso to create a dvd or download direct to a USB thumb drive, and it will create a bootable USB drive, that if you run setup from a booted machine will start an upgrade as opposed to a clean install. Link Here is a link to download and build the .iso or usb version of either 32 bit or 64 bit.