Domando1069

While searching around the net for solutions to installing Vista Ultimate on my 3 year old laptop, I noticed Domando1069 has installed Vista on that very same machine. Therefore I would like to ask a few questions about the installation. I will get Ultimate because Microsoft is offering it to students for $70 in Canada next month.

First my specs:
Toshiba M70-SR3
XP Home SP3
Pentium M 740 1.73GHz
1.5Gb DDR2 @533 Ram
100GB SATA @5400RPM Hard Drive
Intel 915 GMA 900 128MB shared videocard (won't run Aero, not a problem)
Matashita super multi DVD-RAM
BIOS ver 1.10

First of all, Toshiba has issued a 5.1 BIOS release for Vista. Is this an absolute requirement to install Vista? I don't feel like risking a BIOS update if I don't need to.

Second, If I do a clean install, will Vista automatically find updated video and sound drivers or will I need to manually install them after installation? Or should I just do an upgrade?

Its been a while since I've done a non-OEM restore install and that was installing Win98 retail.

Thanks for your help,

Jefferson