Your experiences with Windows 7 - Page 5

Pinnacle · November 5th, 2009, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by 74AD

. . . and an issue with sound and the onboard realtek HD Audio. I think it may be sorted now, but I thought that before and the driver somehow uninstalled itself. I'm not opposed to actually buying a sound card though so no worries there either. . .

It did not find my Realtek drivers either but I found some someplace and all is fine now. It seems like the ones I found were supposed to be for everything up to Vista but it worked fine on 7.

74AD · November 6th, 2009, 11:43 PM

did it again to me. rebooted with no sound had to install drivers again. found the very latest....hopefully these ones work.

Pinnacle · November 7th, 2009, 02:18 AM

Strange. Once I installed them, they worked fine. I have not had any problems after a reboot.

74AD · November 7th, 2009, 11:03 PM

I found an old PCI card down in the basement. crystal something or other. tossed in it and we're all good.....I don't need 5.1 sound or anything fancy. this will be just fine.

Major Kong · November 11th, 2009, 09:58 PM

Just did a clean install of Windows 7 Pro on a 3½ year old Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop...used the XP audio drivers from Dell and everything is hunky dory.

S197 Insano · November 22nd, 2009, 12:10 PM

Just installed last night and it's definately faster than Vista x64. Very pleased so far.

WebHead · November 23rd, 2009, 01:55 AM

I got it running on my old desktop (P4, 1gb ram, Nvidia 5700 Ultra FX -- I use this box as a storage server for backups, files, etc.) and it works great. Didn't have to install a single driver. Windows found everything. The performance is the same as when it had XP on it -- maybe even a little faster now. Also installed the new Office 2010 Pro beta on it. Even that seems to work fine. Very pleased with Microsoft these days.

meatwad · January 27th, 2010, 04:31 PM

I just loaded this on my new rig. Runs great. I have had two freezes. Once when copying a huge folder over and once while juggling some windows wit a video playing. So far I like it a lot.

November 7th, 2009, 02:18 AM	#43
Pinnacle Has posted alot Has posted quite alot Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,554 FarBux: 8,467.56	Strange. Once I installed them, they worked fine. I have not had any problems after a reboot. __________________ "Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll learn." -- Marla Jones

November 11th, 2009, 09:58 PM	#45
Major Kong Has posted alot Has posted quite alot Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Marion, VA Posts: 9,224 FarBux: 35,931.20	Just did a clean install of Windows 7 Pro on a 3½ year old Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop...used the XP audio drivers from Dell and everything is hunky dory. __________________ I only post using 100% recycled electrons. WAR Virginia Tech Hokies!!!

November 23rd, 2009, 01:55 AM	#47
WebHead Autobot Has posted quite alot Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 31,137 FarBux: 88,884.40	I got it running on my old desktop (P4, 1gb ram, Nvidia 5700 Ultra FX -- I use this box as a storage server for backups, files, etc.) and it works great. Didn't have to install a single driver. Windows found everything. The performance is the same as when it had XP on it -- maybe even a little faster now. Also installed the new Office 2010 Pro beta on it. Even that seems to work fine. Very pleased with Microsoft these days. __________________ three.sentenc.es

January 27th, 2010, 04:31 PM	#48
meatwad Do what now? Has posted quite alot Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Idontgiveafukistan Posts: 3,551 FarBux: 2,063.50	I just loaded this on my new rig. Runs great. I have had two freezes. Once when copying a huge folder over and once while juggling some windows wit a video playing. So far I like it a lot. __________________ Just when they think they've got the answers, I change the questions.

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November 6th, 2009, 11:43 PM	#42
74AD Has posted alot Has posted quite alot Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 11,677 FarBux: 375,890.10	did it again to me. rebooted with no sound had to install drivers again. found the very latest....hopefully these ones work.

November 7th, 2009, 11:03 PM	#44
74AD Has posted alot Has posted quite alot Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 11,677 FarBux: 375,890.10	I found an old PCI card down in the basement. crystal something or other. tossed in it and we're all good.....I don't need 5.1 sound or anything fancy. this will be just fine.

November 22nd, 2009, 12:10 PM	#46
S197 Insano Has posted alot Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,014 FarBux: 11,024,455.23	Just installed last night and it's definately faster than Vista x64. Very pleased so far.