live lite 6 wont sync with beatstep pro

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quick point - i am stuck on lite 6, unless i update my entire OS .
(I am on 32 bit OS, and have already got license for 6 and 10, and am unable to downgrade license for versions 8 or 9 - which are available as 32bit, so am stuck on 6 for the moment.)

so,
when using the beatstep pro, live sees the beatstep as a midi device, will send and receive midi through it,
but the sync button in midi settings is greyed out.
so no start/stop sync function is available between them.

i'm thinking it's because of some level of incompatibility due to old version,
but is there another possible reason?

am i just going to have to do install a new OS ?

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given up on 6
found a slightly more recent laptop with 64 bit win7 that can handle 8gb ram.

(other laptop had ram issue with 64 bit OS, couldn't handle >3gb ram,
but upgraded OS anyway and lite 10 install kept failing ...)

i am installing lite 10 as i type .. seems good so far..