Clean install of Windows 7 Pro or Enterprise creates update issues on Pavilion G6 notebooks

Hello,
Our small company has 5 older HP Pavilion g6 notebooks running Window 7 Home edition. We wanted to make them, and a few other Acer laptops, part of our domain. So, we did a clean install of Windows 7 Pro (you can't upgrade with a volume license key). After the install, the HP laptops have windows update issues and currupt installs. The Acer laptops installed with no issues. I've tried installing the Enterprise version with the same results. I tried installing from dvd and usb, both with the same results. Any idea?
Thank You

Hi, Sorry for the late reply. It seems to be kinda stable now. Updates would never work from the getgo. I had to reinstall update agent a few times and run the update troubleshooter found here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/windows-update-issues/en-us Until I got it working, I used Autopatcher to install updates. However, the computer isn't stable enough though to allow someone to use it for work. I don't recommend doing a clean install on these machines.

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