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account only takes a few minutes. Join Now I am running Spiceworks version 5.0.62863 on a Windows 2003 Server, and have never had any problems. Today I got a message in Spiceworks that I will need to upgrade to the latest version within the next 60 days. So when I run the upgrade, it downloads and then I get the error, "NTVDM encountered a hard error" and I can close or ignore, neither of which does anything, it just sits there and the screen behind it says if the installer doesn't load in a few minutes to restart. I did restart it a couple of times but got the same results. So anyone help me out with this? The server in question is fully updated and patched as of last week. (Edit Version #) :) Reply Subscribe RELATED TOPICS: Upgrading spiceworks Upgrading Spiceworks from 7.4 Problem Upgrading Spiceworks   This topic was created during version 5.1. The latest version is 7.5.00093. 5 Replies Tabasco OP Kris7191 Jul 7, 2011 at 1:39 UTC I am wondering if this might occur if someone had the client open on their computer while I was trying to update? 0 Mace OP Jay6111 Jul 7, 2011 at 1:44 UTC Did you shut down SW before trying to install? Open task manager and make sure it isn't running, open the services.msc and stop the "SpiceWorks" service, then try again. -Jay 0 Tabasco OP Kris7191 Jul 7, 2011 at 1:52 UTC OK, tried that, turned off the service, ran the update, same problem. 0 Mace OP Jay6111 Jul 7, 2011 at 1:58 UTC I don't think that's a SW error, that is a Windows error. Sounds like something is messed up on the server side. I did a quick search and found a few things, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winservergen/thread/aaede3d8-9372-4449-b20f-9adc05a9e6f7
-Jay 0 Ghost Chili OP TimJ42 Jul 7, 2011 at 4:06 UTC Have you tried downloading the Spiceworks install file direct from the website? Looks like it has helped in this similar thread: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/96034-spiceworks-won-t-update. ; Make sure to get a good back up before running the update. There have also been a lot of changes between 4.x and 5.1, including the adding of database consistency checks starting in version 5.0. If you get any errors about database corruption, you should contact Spiceworks