Windows 7

I guess you guys might have had a inkling that i will be having problems due to my ancient pc.

Guess what, i am :p

NTLDR is missing: Found a solution which said that the drive has to be fully clean if installing using a CD

Burnt the ISO through IMGBurn and got an error saying

CDBOOT: Cannot boot from CD-ROM Code: 5
after a search through Mr Google, found this

[jowie.com]

however, that talks about Vista x64. would it work with Win7?

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UPDATE Jan. 23rd, 2009: IMPORTANT 64bit Win7 info in bold inline. Thanks to all who emailed!

Give it a go

Got it working!!! :D

Tried a different approach by using my XP Pro CD and installing that onto the old HD and then upgraded it through Windows. Works bloody brilliantly! :D

Edit:

Anyone know how to get the Aero features working in the Beta?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/27/2009 08:03PM by Monza972.

what graphics card do you have?

SiS 650

never going to work

Could try shoving some chips in the graphics slot. It might help. Certainly won't hurt performance.

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_tux_ Wrote:
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> never going to work

Thats clears it up Cheers

The below was indeed fixed with 9.1 (released today), but I've no idea if the W7 preview drivers have been updated yet (I don't have W7 at home yet) to include these fixes.


gav Wrote:
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> > also the 8.12 x64 drivers won't even load
> (error
> > 43) which apparently is because because i've
> got
> > 8gb ram
>
> To give more on this, it's not a Windows 7 problem
> or even the W7 preview drivers, it's a bug in the
> 8.12 drivers, and happens on Vista x64 too (and
> probably XP64). They'll normally work fine (as I
> said, I've got 12gb at home, and it works fine in
> both Vista x64 and W7 x64), but I've just found it
> on Vista x64 at work too. Seems I'm not the only
> one who gets this - removing 4gb seems to work for
> most, or limiting the available RAM to 3gb in
> msconfig. The 8.11 drivers work fine though, so I
> guess they'll fix it in 9.1.
>
> Perhaps it's some compatibility issue between the
> memory controller on some Intel northbridges and
> the 8.12 drivers.
>
> Like I said though, should be gone in the next few
> days with 9.1 is released.

excellent news! i'll have to wait for them to hit windows update for w7

Might take a while for them to hit Windows Update. Just get them from the AMD site (if they have indeed updated the W7 ones yet - being just preview drivers they might not roll them out at the same time as all the other ones).

//edit: The latest W7 drivers on the AMD site are still the 8.12 based ones.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/29/2009 09:34PM by gav.

i've downgraded to xp, which is the first time i've run xp on this machine as it came with vista, and i have to say...xp is still the best.

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iCeMaN pAuL Wrote:
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> i've downgraded to xp, which is the first time
> i've run xp on this machine as it came with vista,
> and i have to say...xp is still the best.


Hahaha!

How come. What happened?

7 was very good, made vista look reeeeally rubbish, but i just decided to see if i could get xp working on this comp, and it runs really fast and all my games, software and hardware work flawlessly so i'm sticking with xp!!

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W7 is coming on my 'new' laptop. Looking forward to giving it a go.

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Quick question:

Will games (like GP4) work on Windows 7 beta?

Thanks.

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msater Wrote:
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> Quick question:
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> Will games (like GP4) work on Windows 7 beta?
>
> Thanks.


If you do a backward compatibility it will deffo work. It also has a program to help you do it too

Well, after having Windows 7 for just over a week, I can definitely say: I love it! I think it's brilliant, but maybe that's just me. Few little things I'd like to see on the final release (like tabs in the window browser) I think it's good.

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I'm still happily using XP over here since I went back to it in January! I got myself a new 500GB hard drive and stuck XP on that, sod Vista. I may find myself giving Vista another go once SP2 has been released, but if not I imagine I'll go straight from XP to 7, providing 7 continues to make the right noises.

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