Anyone tried installing the 64-bit version of Windows 7 yet?

I tried installing the 64-bit version of Beta 1 of Windows 7-- got 3/4 of the
way through setup, it told me that Windows could not be installed on this
hardware, exited. No details given on what was incompatible. Had to restore XP
from a Ghost backup. CPU is Athlon X2 5050e, motherboard is Biostar MCP6P M2+,
video card is Galaxy KFA2 Geforce Nvida 7300LE 256MB.

"DG" == Darren Garrison writes:

DG I tried installing the 64-bit version of Beta 1 of Windows 7--

Remember with MS products version X.0 is the beta--what you tried to
install is the alpha.

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Bob Fry wrote:
"DG" == Darren Garrison writes:

DG I tried installing the 64-bit version of Beta 1 of Windows 7--

Remember with MS products version X.0 is the beta--what you tried to
install is the alpha.

Works fine here on a Phenom 9850 Radeon 3870 and 4gb of ram.

Hi, Darren.

Win7 Ultimate x64 build 7000 installed and runs with no complaints on my
2-year-old EPoX MF570sli mobo/Athlon 64 X2 5000+ CUP/3 GB OCZ PC6400 RAM/ATI
Radeon X1600 Pro PCI-express. This Win7 is now my "daily driver" since it
arrived about 4 days ago. For the two months before that, I ran the
pre-beta build 6801. The Win7 Home Premium x64 installed easily, too, but I
haven't exercised it yet - and probably won't; why use that when I have
Ultimate?

No additional drivers were required for my 4 SATA II HDs, including the 2 in
a hardware RAID1 mirror. Or for the onboard Realtek audio (Even my 2 TV
tuners, from Hauppauge and Pinnacle, had drivers on the Win7 disk and those
installed automatically.)

RC
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(Running Windows Live Mail 2009 in Win7 Ultimate x64 7000)

"Darren Garrison" wrote in message
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I tried installing the 64-bit version of Beta 1 of Windows 7-- got 3/4 of
the
way through setup, it told me that Windows could not be installed on this
hardware, exited. No details given on what was incompatible. Had to
restore XP
from a Ghost backup. CPU is Athlon X2 5050e, motherboard is Biostar MCP6P
M2+,
video card is Galaxy KFA2 Geforce Nvida 7300LE 256MB.

* Bill:

Working OK on an Intel mini-itx Atom 330 motherboard.

So how did you get the 64bit version of Windows 7 running on a 32bit
processor?

Benjamin

* Bill:

Working OK on an Intel mini-itx Atom 330 motherboard.
So how did you get the 64bit version of Windows 7 running on a 32bit
processor?

Works just peachy. The Atom 330 is dual core and hyperthreaded.

Which is pretty irrelevant for the question (hint" "Anyone tried
installing the *64-bit* version of Windows 7 yet?"). Your Atom 330 is a
32bit CPU can thus can only run the 32bit version of Windows 7.

Benjamin

Benjamin Gawert writes:
Works just peachy. The Atom 330 is dual core and hyperthreaded.

Which is pretty irrelevant for the question (hint" "Anyone tried
installing the *64-bit* version of Windows 7 yet?"). Your Atom 330 is a
32bit CPU can thus can only run the 32bit version of Windows 7.

Apparently the the Attom 330 has x86-64 support.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverthorne_(CPU)

-Miles

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"Bill" wrote in message
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says...
* Bill:

Working OK on an Intel mini-itx Atom 330 motherboard.
So how did you get the 64bit version of Windows 7 running on a 32bit
processor?

Works just peachy. The Atom 330 is dual core and hyperthreaded.

Which is pretty irrelevant for the question (hint" "Anyone tried
installing the *64-bit* version of Windows 7 yet?"). Your Atom 330 is a
32bit CPU can thus can only run the 32bit version of Windows 7.

Benjamin


Would you like to do some investigating on that, before you
embarrass yourself any farther?

Bill
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LMAO ROF... go get em Bill!!!!!!!

but in his defense, he may have thought if someone has "got it" he would
upgrade to 64 bit processor ( and the new mobo to go along with it) .....
giggle.... kids do brag.

Smiles
Pokeyman

Bill writes:
Apparently the the Attom 330 has x86-64 support.

Actually it's EM64T support, but what do I know.

"x86-64" is a just generic way of referring to amd64/em64t. [em64t is
more or less just a copy of amd64 anyway]

-Miles

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* Miles Bader:
Benjamin Gawert writes:
Works just peachy. The Atom 330 is dual core and hyperthreaded.
Which is pretty irrelevant for the question (hint" "Anyone tried
installing the *64-bit* version of Windows 7 yet?"). Your Atom 330 is a
32bit CPU can thus can only run the 32bit version of Windows 7.

Apparently the the Attom 330 has x86-64 support.

Sorry, my fault, I somehow mixed it with the N-series. Sorry.

Benjamin