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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Adventures In Windows 7
I recently decided to give Windows 7 a try. Being that it's not officially released yet, I expected to run into quite a few problems. Overall, most of the OS seems pretty solid. I did run into however, an issue that took me quite some time to overcome. Every once in a while the entire OS would just lock up or freeze. No input, no mouse movement, just frozen. I installed Windows 7 onto a machine with the following specs:
Fatality AN8 Sli motherboard
4 Gb of RAM
2.20 Ghz Socket 939 AMD 64 Athalon Processor
Realtek Sound Card
SATA 133 120Gb HD
2x 1024MB NVidia GeForce 9500 GT Graphics Cards
The freezing was fixed by going to the ABit site and downloaded the latest BIOS update for the motherboard. It appears that Microsoft has targeted it drivers to use only the latest BIOS. After than issue was resolved, there were no more freezes. Another odd thing to note though; after the BIOS update, my TI 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller stopped working. I wonder if the two issues are related? Perhaps there working are mutually exclusive.
The next issue, kind of small, but still an issue. Was getting the sound card to work properly along with the sound configuration dialogs, etc. My original approach was to download the Realtek drivers for Vista 64, but the configuration screens didn't work properly and I would get nonsense error messages (broken English). After uninstalling the Realtek Vista 64 drivers, I did a check on the Windows Update site. Behold, there were updated Realtek drivers there. Installed them and everything worked after that.
Overall, I like the powertools command prompt that now ships with Windows 7. The interface is very much like Vista for the most part which I find, OK. The control panel is pretty wack. I personally liked the Windows XP control panel much more, at least you had the option to change back and forth from new to old layout. In Windows 7, I don't see any options for doing that.
One thing that's not quite an issue, but it is a bit bothersome is the switch from SLI to non-SLI modes. After you launch the NVidia control panel, switch a configuration and hit "apply", you're going to be sitting there for a little bit with almost no visual feedback. Every once in a while the screen will flash, you might try to move the configuration window but then it will say "The window is not responding". Eventually it pulls itself out of it, but it's kind of annoying due to the fact that you don't really know what's going on until at the very end a dialog pops up and says "Do you want to keep these settings?".
Other than thoese issues, the OS seems pretty sturdy (as far as Windows goes). I haven't had any major crashes or issues since the BIOS update. Good work considering :)
Fatality AN8 Sli motherboard
4 Gb of RAM
2.20 Ghz Socket 939 AMD 64 Athalon Processor
Realtek Sound Card
SATA 133 120Gb HD
2x 1024MB NVidia GeForce 9500 GT Graphics Cards
The freezing was fixed by going to the ABit site and downloaded the latest BIOS update for the motherboard. It appears that Microsoft has targeted it drivers to use only the latest BIOS. After than issue was resolved, there were no more freezes. Another odd thing to note though; after the BIOS update, my TI 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller stopped working. I wonder if the two issues are related? Perhaps there working are mutually exclusive.
The next issue, kind of small, but still an issue. Was getting the sound card to work properly along with the sound configuration dialogs, etc. My original approach was to download the Realtek drivers for Vista 64, but the configuration screens didn't work properly and I would get nonsense error messages (broken English). After uninstalling the Realtek Vista 64 drivers, I did a check on the Windows Update site. Behold, there were updated Realtek drivers there. Installed them and everything worked after that.
Overall, I like the powertools command prompt that now ships with Windows 7. The interface is very much like Vista for the most part which I find, OK. The control panel is pretty wack. I personally liked the Windows XP control panel much more, at least you had the option to change back and forth from new to old layout. In Windows 7, I don't see any options for doing that.
One thing that's not quite an issue, but it is a bit bothersome is the switch from SLI to non-SLI modes. After you launch the NVidia control panel, switch a configuration and hit "apply", you're going to be sitting there for a little bit with almost no visual feedback. Every once in a while the screen will flash, you might try to move the configuration window but then it will say "The window is not responding". Eventually it pulls itself out of it, but it's kind of annoying due to the fact that you don't really know what's going on until at the very end a dialog pops up and says "Do you want to keep these settings?".
Other than thoese issues, the OS seems pretty sturdy (as far as Windows goes). I haven't had any major crashes or issues since the BIOS update. Good work considering :)
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