Windows 7 Club

[InnocentCriminal]

Im having problems with Language packs at the moment - I cant install off windows update so i torrented them. & now that I got them win7 eiither straight out refuse to install it or say that the cab file is corrupt which it is not as ive already extracted the contents inside as a small test to see if it is corrupted.

the CDs i downloaded have both x86 & x64 languages. lots of people have commented that it works great, so why wont my win7 accept it?

Because it hates you! Nah, only kidding (or are I?) I can't say I've come across that, I'll take my rig into work on sometime this week and download the language packs there and see what happens.

As for my audio problem, seems to have cured itself. Odd that!

 

[Easy Rhino]

anyone running windows 7 have verizon fios? im curious to know if you are able to get the bandwidth you pay for without running their bandwidth tweaker program.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Any more Win7 users?

 

[madmanjohn]

I have not seen any specific Win7 chipset drivers. What are some of you doing to compensate?
A. You do not install any chipset drivers
B. Use Vista chipset drivers
C. Other?

Add me too, running 1 week today and i love it. not nearly as much of a resource hog as vista 64 ultimate was.


According to the ati driversite it had no chipset drivers for win 7 for my 790 chipset and nothing at biostar either, not that i expected that, so i launched vista drivers in custom mode and run as admin, and it would not install them. even tried the old backdoor way thru devices and still would not. it showed checks for the install manager and the ms language but nothing else.

I cannot find the link currently but a msds forums page i read claims it has advanced ahci mode writtten into it as part of the os so no typical drivers should not be neccesary, so i did a bit of wandering in the syst 32 driver files and found a bunch of different ati security drivers sittin neatly in a row, dont know the names as to know what could be what, but the only driver i installed was for the x850xt card and CCC.

EDIT: and i almost forgot, my asus xonar dx soundcard-(Cmedia in drag) and the x850 drivers were vista but the ccc was current as of the retirement back in march.

This thing is doing better here than it ever did in vista 64, and pardon my late-ness, but what is build 7600? im running a 7100 ver and thought it was the latest thing?!?

 

[rake]

7100 is the RC
7600 is the RTM (available for TechNet Plus subs, among others)

 

[mikek75]

7100 was/is the Release Candidate made officially available for testing. Other builds were leaked, including 7600. 7600 is thought to be the same as the Release To Manufacturing build made available to Technet and MSDN subscribers a few days ago. For the rest of us mortals we can't get the retail version until Oct 22nd.

 

[madmanjohn]

Yeah, right after i posted that i went off to msds to see the scoop- unfortunately im just a tech net subcriber so i get the emails, so i knew about the rtm, but im not a plus subscriber

so i cant get the toys

thats ok- i read someones post a ways back, and like him, my xp'x had been provided by an outfit i partnered with and i wont mention how i got my version of vista, but however, im buying this one this time. first os ive used worth its -$$

theres a few (ahem) other places that claim they have it downloadable but if you look at the filesize its another scam/virus or some crap.

 

[madmanjohn]

Question- what is the "System Reserved" file?

I posted this earlier on a different thread so i hope im not breaking a rule here, i dont think so,

but im trying to figure out whats with the system reserved file that is showing in disc management and perfectdisc 10. its not anything thats part of system restore cuz by default thats off, and i left it that way. i can see files in the defrag map so its in use. just over 50mb in use.

its not part of the pagefile cause its only 100mb, but i cannot find a way into it, not that that matters, im just curious as to wtf it is.

when i first found it, it reminded me of the old dell and hp recovery discs cause they would do that.

i installed this on a scrubbed to 0's 250 gig seagate 7200.11, so i know there wasnt nothing on it.

i know curiosity killed the cat, but this is windows we are talking about and you never know whats behind curtain #2

anyone got anything on this yet?

 

[rake]

Haven't actually checked, but I thought they put the bootloader there, out of harm's way?

 

[laszlo]

maybe someone here can help me out with this:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=100496

thanks!

 

[madmanjohn]

no more fish-

made a phone call to a buddy of mine since the last post. hes a paid tech net subscriber.

got rid of the fish- this one now says 6-1-7600. dont even have my audio drivers in yet, but its activated and rollin.

he said the same thing about that partition, its the bootloader. evidently putting critical parts in a location thats hard to find should help the anti piracy campaign, at least for a day or 2.

 

[Mussels]

fish is long gone

w1zzard confirmed MD5 hashes with me, my copy is the legit final RTM as well.


... although i copied the fish and still use it as my desktop.

 

[madmanjohn]

back when the first version rolled out of this thing i grabbed it and installed it right away, it was still a bit buggy then, seems to me that was january. when i saw the betta i nearly fell off the chair since it was a "beta" release.

i was suprised to see it again in the rc.

normally i run a blank screen with my company logo in the middle, cause when we're doing a show, nobody sees that anyway.

always thought there was something fishy about that rc

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I'm using the 7100rc1 x86 and its fine,my xonar dx works fine too and switches to ddl automatically if i put a dvd in and play it with wmp,all good

 

[rake]

One thing I noticed when going over to the RTM from RC... my WEI scores improved admirably, especially graphics (I was using the same catalyst 9.7 drivers on both OS'es).
I do not know whether it is simply a matter of internal scaling in the WEI, or actual performance increase though.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Has anyone gotten DreamScene to work on Win7 yet?

 

[madmanjohn]

Hmm gotta new problem. had to run some errands and when i got back home and re fired this thing up, i lost the 32 bit side of ie8

im on the 64 bit side of it now.

this hadnt happened in the rc version, got me baffled. anyone had this problem yet?

 

[Mussels]

it means you got the fake


the fake 7600.16385 has a broken 32 bit internet exporer.



(by fake, i mean its the original files, but it was compiled by a third party - and they screwed up)

 

[madmanjohn]

cant be- came straight from msds

it was working fine until i installed my audio driver and alzip so i could unpack the rar for my audio card.

i had also installed perfectdisc too at that point- im gonna do some homework

ill be back

 

[Mussels]

ok, interesting - if you say the source is legit, it must be.
I saw reports of these bugs on the MDL forums, that "went away" when they formatted and went to the 'legit' untouched ISO's - it may have been a false report from them as to the cause.

what antivirus?

 

[madmanjohn]

did a system restore back to the point i installed the audio driver and its back to normal. on it now.



backtracking, something must have gone wrong somewhere

re installing alzip brb

 

[madmanjohn]

alzip installed and i think i figured it out

recently asus went to a install manager. thats the only thing i can figure on is that it had something to do with that.

the rar file from asus for win 7 has an identical checksum to the one for vista

im going to use it instead-brb

 

[madmanjohn]

Installed audio driver, lost the 32 bit explorer.

and this one was my vista driver on a flash drive


Now system restore will not work again back to that point either.



starting over from boot. back in awhile.

 

[madmanjohn]

the fish is back

yeah its like that....

that was Monday morning-
now im back on the rc again, and a funny thing happened on the phone to virginia....

somewhere i read any IE8 problems have free service calls in redmond until dec 31 so before i scrapped the rtm i figured id give em a call.

once i finally made him understand what the problem was and let him remote access my computer for about an hour, he finally said, well it looks like you need to uninstall/reinstall IE8
but i dont know how you can do that because we have not been trained to deal with that problem, and i asked so who does know, he says- NOBODY. we have no training on problems concerning win7 and IE8 yet. that wont be until sometime in september, there is a seminar....

so once again, MS puts it to the people to do thier debugging, and we are 7 weeks away from the retail public release.....

some gets some, some gets none- all i got for my trouble is a case number and "If you find a solution please contact us with your case number blah blah blah........

business as usual in redmond

EDIT- almost forgot- ie8 is default so it cannot be removed short of a crowbar or atom bomb. i should of known, and since its windows ya cant do a funky overwrite since it knows it "already has this software installed"

sometimes too smart/stupid for its own good. in the meantime someone at asus is huddled over a mountain of code trying to come up with a fix for something that changed between the rc1 and the rtm.

when it wasnt thier problem to start with.

 

[InnocentCriminal]

You can remove IE8 from Windows 7, to do so, go to Programs & Features>Turn Windows Features On & Off then untick the IE8 tickbox reboot, then go back to it and re-tick it.