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Windows 7 Beta

SnowLeopard2008 said:
Thanks! Sorry for making you the guinea pig, I'm just tired/sick/scared of installing Windows 7. I had to copy the x64 dvd onto Windows 7 (32-bit) partition, and rebuild it using these obscure instructions. And then borrow my dad's NTFS external HDD and copy the resulting ISO file to it. And then reboot to OS X and burn a new Windows 7 x64 disc. And reinstall. I had this "select cd-rom boot type" error when I tried booting off the x64 disc to install, which many people said to follow those obscure instructions.
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There's a simpler way of doing it.

Same procedure as described here:

http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DA410C7F7E038D!1665.entry

I've tried it and it works for Windows 7.
I used a small FAT HD partition instead
of a USB flash drive.
 
SnowLeopard2008 said:
Hmm, not sure. I just read a thread about a guy who formatted his OS X partition during the Windows install... :D But honestly, the beta itself will do no harm to your computer.
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That's exactly what I did the first day I got my iMac. I first of all downloaded Windows on the OS X partition and then used XP SP2. Lol. My HD was formatted to NTFS. I needed a new HD from Apple. Oh, and it was the day before Thanksgiving!
 
I'm just running the upgrade option on a Vista Ultimate SP1 box. Holy crap it's slow, been going for a couple of hours now I think and it's still not finished.

The clean install was brilliantly fast, the upgrade though...
 
Got Windows 7 x64 installed on my unibody macbook last night, everything's up and running greatly, but here are a few things I'm curious about:

1. When you switch back to OSX, does it forget your wireless network's password, and tell you your date and time is set before 2001? Mine's done this everytime.

2. When booting into Windows 7 and using Limo's fix for the audio, how do you make it stop asking you on statup to trust and run the new audio driver file?

3. My bootcamp icon in the system tray in 7 has dissappeared! Can still access through control panel, but still. (this kinda of problem really makes me remember why i switched away from windows 6 years ago in the first place...stupid crap like this!)
 
Still No Audio on mac mini

i have a mac mini 1.66 Core Duo (superdrive version)

Windows 7 installed fine, but i can't get any audio. Yes, i did download the Realtek drives from the link on page 2, but it still didn't work.

I am using Bootcamp with a clean install of Windows 7.

Am i doing something wrong or do i need a different driver for the old(er) hardware?

thanks!!
 
Lopes said:
Got Windows 7 x64 installed on my unibody macbook last night, everything's up and running greatly, but here are a few things I'm curious about:

1. When you switch back to OSX, does it forget your wireless network's password, and tell you your date and time is set before 2001? Mine's done this everytime.

2. When booting into Windows 7 and using Limo's fix for the audio, how do you make it stop asking you on statup to trust and run the new audio driver file?

3. My bootcamp icon in the system tray in 7 has dissappeared! Can still access through control panel, but still. (this kinda of problem really makes me remember why i switched away from windows 6 years ago in the first place...stupid crap like this!)
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Please remember that this is a BETA. It's not going to be perfect, in fact it will be far from it.

Don
 
Dmac77 said:
Please remember that this is a BETA. It's not going to be perfect, in fact it will be far from it.

Don
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oh i know, just wondering if anyone else had these issues since i haven't seem them mentioned here is all.
 
Lopes said:
oh i know, just wondering if anyone else had these issues since i haven't seem them mentioned here is all.
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I'm currently burning the ISO to a DVD, and I will be installing it momentarily. I'll report back, regarding wether or not I have these problems.

Don
 
Installed Windows 7 64bit on my 24" iMac last night. Only issue I had was the sound driver didn't work initially. While I was excited about it it is still as painful to use as Vista after two years of exclusively using OS X. I did beta test Vista and this is by far better than even the RTM copy of Vista. I'll definitely keep it around to see if it grows on me.
 
Did anyone get their copy off of Technet? I am beginning to think there are two (and by two I mean 4) different versions of Build 7000.
 
diamond.g said:
Did anyone get their copy off of Technet? I am beginning to think there are two (and by two I mean 4) different versions of Build 7000.
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Ehem, i got mine off a uesnet newsgroup because the official servers kept quitting on me and after the 10th attempt i gave up.........i did get an official key from the Microsoft site tho..........

So goodness knows what version i have, a Technet version i would think, rather than the one available from the site on day one of the beta release.
 
cosmokanga2 said:
Just installed Windows 7 64 on my unibody Macbook Pro and everything seems to be working. Even sound. Didn't have to install any unpdates or patches. :D
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I had to run the Nvidia drivers manualy off the bootcamp DVD to get rid of 2 unrecognised bits of hardware.........but apart from that everythings working......including sound and Bluetooth........
 
cogsinister said:
Ehem, i got mine off a uesnet newsgroup because the official servers kept quitting on me and after the 10th attempt i gave up.........i did get an official key from the Microsoft site tho..........

So goodness knows what version i have, a Technet version i would think, rather than the one available from the site on day one of the beta release.
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Do you know if you have the checked build? I am thinking that there is a debug version along with the regular beta version for each CPU type (x86 and x64). Click on the Windows(start) icon and type winver press enter. If you got the checked version you should see debug next to the build number. Something I have noticed so far is I get a ton of assertion errors. So I am busy downloading the non-checked version.
 
diamond.g said:
Do you know if you have the checked build? I am thinking that there is a debug version along with the regular beta version for each CPU type (x86 and x64). Click on the Windows(start) icon and type winver press enter. If you got the checked version you should see debug next to the build number. Something I have noticed so far is I get a ton of assertion errors. So I am busy downloading the non-checked version.
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It just says build 7000......
 
The only problem i have is that tfptboot doesnt work on win7. This sucks because i need to use it to boot via pxe on my laptop...
 
Lopes said:
Got Windows 7 x64 installed on my unibody macbook last night, everything's up and running greatly, but here are a few things I'm curious about:

1. When you switch back to OSX, does it forget your wireless network's password, and tell you your date and time is set before 2001? Mine's done this everytime.

2. When booting into Windows 7 and using Limo's fix for the audio, how do you make it stop asking you on statup to trust and run the new audio driver file?

3. My bootcamp icon in the system tray in 7 has dissappeared! Can still access through control panel, but still. (this kinda of problem really makes me remember why i switched away from windows 6 years ago in the first place...stupid crap like this!)
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Lopes, I'm not having the issues that you have reported having. The Win 7 installation shouldn't have touched your OS X Partition. It's really weird that it did.

Don
 
cogsinister said:
I just noticed in device manager i have Two yellow flags.....................

SM Bus controller.

Coprocessor.

Anyone else got these as yellow flag thingys ?
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Usually that means you need to install drivers. Every one seems to have good luck installng the drivers off bootcamp/leopard disc.
 
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