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Windows 7 Beta 1
Hi All, Found this link to Intel, who say that Windows 7 beta 1 is due out on the 13th January 2009. With microsoft bringing this beta so early and talk that it will be a short beta, we could be looking at an summer release of Windows 7. CLICK ON THIS. :emotion-5:
pcgeek11
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January 11th, 2009 10:00
Well the gloom and doomers can say whatever they like about Windows 7... However I have been running Pre-Beta build #6801 64 bit for over a month on my Inspiron 1501 with no problems whatsoever, None. I installed the 7000 build beta this morning and have the same results; all hardware was detected drivers installed and I am posting now from Win 7. Vista should have been this easy.
I am not recommending that every user should give it a go, but if you know what you are doing I would say it is fine. Really fine!
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Davet50
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January 11th, 2009 15:00
I'm running mine on dual drives, just the way I plan on doing it with the final release. It is not wise to load the beta on a seperat partition on the main drive. I will be going with x64 so that will require a clean install anyway. I never had to worry about a previous version when I loaded my Vista x64 either
dishinit
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January 11th, 2009 16:00
For anyone who has trouble with Win 7 Beta 64 loading the correct driver for the SMBus Controller on a Dell Inspiron Q6600, see this fix:
After hunting all over the Internet and Intel sites,
I found a fix for the G33 Chipset SMBus Controller driver which would not install in your Win 7 Beta 64 on my Dell Inspiron 530 Quad 6600, 4GB ram/Foxcom G33/Intel ICH9 Dell Motherboard.
You can install the Beta Intel 9.1.1.1004 Beta Windows Server 2003(32/64)/2000/Vista(32/64)/XP” software driver found here:
hxxp://www.driversdown.com/ViewDownloadUrl.asp?ID=108115&brNum=3&show=0
(substitute tt for xx in hxxp)
SMBus Controller is now recognized!
Your welcome
Darrel112
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January 13th, 2009 18:00
I installed Windows7 this past weekend on my Inspiron 1501. So far works great. Faster then Vista, boots much faster too. The video driver from Dell would not install, so I downloaded it from ATI works great. The only problem I've encounter so far is with QuickSet. When I increase or decrease the audio volume it does not display the little blue thing the shows the change in volume.