Building a HTPC for my big screen TV. Got an ati HD card so I can have HDMI output. It works well. The only big problem I had was that the netgear wireless pci card I bought did not have a windows 7 signed driver and I'm running 64bit and it requires it so I had to use the onboard ethernet. I tried updating the driver from windows update last night and it had an actual driver! Netgear's site doesn't describe any driver available for 7 yet.

I need more ram tho, originally bought 2gb from tigerdirect but one was DOA and they didn't want to exchange for me and just refunded me the $14. To get another it would cost me $19 becuase the sale ended and $25 shipping...

 

All Netgear wireless devices use the Broadcom chipset, so likely it was available for a while. You could also go through a lengthy process in disabling the requirement of signed drivers that exist only in the x64 version of Vista and W7.

Zipzoomfly and Newegg is much better than TigerDirect.

 

^^^Agreed. Though I haven't had any big issues the few times I've ordered from Tiger (only small things).

We put Windows 7 Ultra or whatever that one is on my wife's computer (AMD 3500+, 2gb ram, etc.). Works really well and no problems that she had with XP Media Center. Didn't do it on mine as I haven't had problems with Vista...plus got too much **** to move over.

 

i cant even get windows 7 fully loaded i try to start up for initial setup and it blue screens saying, stop 0x00000116 (0xFFFFFA800484d010, 0xFFFFF880048FB6C0, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000002)

i have

XFX nForce 790I Ultra SLI INTEL SOCKET 775 DDR3
GF 8800GTX 768MB DDR3 DUAL DVI TV

had to go back to vista just to turn on computer

 

For those who didnt know...

-Win7 are not compatible with a few of the USB adapters made by linksys,netgear, and belkin even though its stated on microsoft that its compatible with win7 64 bit. 32 bit works but not one 64 bit.

 

so i should try installing the 32 bit version?

 

I guess none of those companies spent $20,000 on Microsoft for a licensed driver which both x64 w7 and vista required. A shame really.

dasnauz: depends on how much RAM you're running.

 

6g cause one of my ram sticks went bad but im having display driver errors with vista and win 7 both so either way i wana toss it off my balcony.

 

32bit Windows operating systems can only "see/use" 4gb of ram. Therefore, if you run 6gb, you will lose 2.

 

I haven't tried it, but after your guys' testimonials, I think I'll hold off a little longer.

I am using Vista Ultimate 64bit and it behaves a lot differently compared to the Vista Home Ed. For some reason, it doesn't associate bat files to the appropriate jar files. I also can't get SQuirrel to talk to Derby. I sure hope WIN7 won't have these issues.