Windows 7

Nathan Gray4 said:Edit: Here’s my transfer speed from the DVD to the hard drive:

Nathan Gray4 said:I think I get what you're getting at 😉. I've tried dragging the taskbar around and resizing it with the mouse myself. It never looked as blurry as yours does. I don't really have much else to offer, other than maybe just waiting for the final release and dealing with these bugs in the meantime 🙂

Edit: Here’s my DVD to hard drive transfer speed:

John Taylor31 said:fair enough, but I'm talking about Windows as the OS itself

Taylor Campbell4 said:Well, there are just a couple of things that tend to trip me up occasionally—it doesn't really bother me too much, though, and I still use it as my main OS (but honestly, I’d probably argue that Windows XP was more stable. That makes sense, I guess, since this system is way more complex and we're all pretty much just scratching the surface here. Maybe once we get a certain Sony Pictures update out, it'll be as rock-solid as XP). I'll figure it out eventually 🙂

Most of my headaches probably stem from the hardware side of things, because Explorer tends to hang whenever that one specific DVD drive acts up—I have no clue what the deal is with it. (The one that works fine, you know, the one on the IDE/ATA connection? It worked perfectly on my old machine, but now with this Sony drive, it’s copying DVDs at a snail's pace of maybe 300-500 kb/s, whereas the other SATA one hits about 12 MB/s...). As soon as there's a disc in there, everything starts stuttering. I probably need to double-check my "hardware" manual; it's entirely possible I didn't hook everything up quite right, seeing as both the PC and the OS are brand new...

Besides, people definitely don't struggle with Windows 7; if you just look at the support forums, you'll see plenty of issues, but I suppose that's just par for the course when dealing with Windows.

Gary Anderson38 said:I can't get this crap to install for the life of me.

I downloaded it straight from Microsoft's site, still nothing.

It just freezes during the installation, either it crashes or throws some error about missing files.

The specs are
ABIT IP35 Pro
Q6600
Nvidia gtx275 4
4 gigs of RAM
Samsung monitor
Two hard drives, one Seagate, one Hitachi. I tried switching them, installing on one then the other, trying them one at a time...😁
I even swapped the GPU, pulled the RAM out, tried a power supply from another PC thinking maybe that was it. I've swapped everything except the motherboard and the CPU.

The processor is overclocked, though I set it back to default settings thinking that might be the issue, but it didn't help.

Nothing else in my hardware seems weird enough to stall an install. I searched online and found nothing. I even ran that Microsoft tool to see if the rig could handle Windows 7; it said everything looks fine. It mentioned potential issues with Daemon Tools or Norton, but I doubt that's it.

Hardware-wise, it says it should work.

Windows XP and Vista install perfectly fine.

I have no idea why this junk won't work.

Joseph Moore40 said:I had a similar headache with my Samsung DVD drive back when I was running Windows 7—ended up testing it and realized the hardware was just shot. Once I picked up a replacement, all my Windows 7 issues vanished and everything’s been smooth sailing since. If you need a solid free tool to check your drive, I'd recommend Nero-DiscSpeed.

Justin Gray81 said:Well, I suppose it's time I finally joined the ranks of those "owners" of Windows 7... 🙂
Everything is working perfectly—I’m actually beyond satisfied with it... especially since I'm running the RC with an official key.🙂...well, I really owe a massive thanks to one of the guys on this forum for making this all possible...
There is just one little thing I can't quite wrap my head around... it's driving me a bit crazy. I went ahead and downloaded the Realtek Audio Driver myself, but now it’s nowhere to be found—it's not showing up in the Control Panel, and I honestly can't find it anywhere else on the system...😕
The icon shows up in the notification area just fine... but double-clicking it does absolutely nothing. I can't get into the settings at all—I was trying to set up my equalizer, but it's like the interface is completely unresponsive...😕
Is there actually a solution for this, or......?

Jeffrey Harris92 said:Look, he might grab you the drivers, but he isn't giving you the full sound card software suite. That's exactly what happened to me—so if you still have the disc lying around, just install it from there.