Looking for Suggestions/Solutions to getting Network to work in Virtualbox

I have installed Windows7 in a Virtualbox under Apple's Intel iMac (Sun Virtualbox) and all is well, so it seems, with the exception of no internet connection. Windows is looking for a "wireless" connection, and I have "Airport" turned on, as well as an Ethernet Gigabyte connecting (wired) but neither is recognized.

Does anyone have an idea of how to get a network connection working within this setup.

By the way, I also have it installed as a dual boot with a Windows XP system. All is well there and Windows7 recognized all resources at first boot. So far, I'm impressed as the system boots in less than 50 seconds. Also the lack of UAC alerts (by default) is a welcome change from Vista.

Changed type Ronnie VernonMVP Wednesday, February 4, 2009 6:07 AM No response

Windows Recovery Disc

I was testing the Recovery Disc tool... on the plus side, I like the options that are available. However, there are two tools that would make it beyond its weight in CD/DVD gold:

1. Have some hard disk diagnostics options (including but not limited to ChkDsk).

2. Have some file-backup option in order to take a backup of files in case the system is no longer bootable and cannot be repaired.

Games

I did a clean install and i can't get the games to work.. help

Ken Hill

Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Friday, February 13, 2009 3:41 PM no followup by OP

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What are "the games". That is very vague.

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windows games, like solitaire and stuff

Ken Hill

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Hmm I didn't even bother to try them. I'm having problems with game games, like COD5.

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i can't get solitaire or any windows games to work in the beta of windows 7, it tells me that there is no program associated. ie i doulble click the solitaire icon in game and this in the error message i get.

Ken Hill

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Windows games - working no prolems
Cod5 -work with no problems for me
Cod4 -not working multiplayer problem with punkbuster
Cs source and left 4 dead - working no problems
UT 3 -work but cant install 1.3 path
Guitar Hero III-work with no problems

Edited by ptpetrov Saturday, January 17, 2009 1:25 AM

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i tried installing Fable and my CD drive started making a very load and abnoxious sound. Though it does not make that for anything else.....Can't remember that when i installed on vista....

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Sorry but they worked fine when I installed it. Are you using the 64bit or the 32bit version?

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i couldnt make CoD4 work, until i installed nvidia latest drivers ( not windows update beta drivers ) now all my games works, even better than in Xp ( its true im not joking )
This are the following games i have tested so far
  - Crysis
  - Crysis Warhead
  - Princes Of Persia
  - Mass Effect
  - Bioshock
  - Assassins Creed
  - WoW
  - of Course CoD4
  - And wolrd of goo xD lol awsome game btw

Mexico City // My Pc: Dell XPS 410 - Pentium D @ 2.8ghz - 3gb DDR2 Ram - nvidia 8400Gs

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I installed the Windows 7 Beta 64 Bit version. I installed this on a machine that has 3 gig of ram, and an AMD 64 Dual Core processor Athlon.

The Windows games like solitaire and all the rest of the windows games do not work.

Is anyone else having this prob;lem?

Ken Hill

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I installed the 32 bit on a Dell 600m. Installation went flawlessly and everything seems to work except for MS games such as Solitaire. They'll actually lock up my laptop when I try to launch them. Ctrl-Alt-Del won't even work so I can't kill it, so I have to do a hard shut down.

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My install on a Dell XPS M1710 was good. Windows games are good. But Ventrillo doesn't accept keys when not in focus (talk key doesn't work) and LoTRO has some graphical errors. Haven't tried much more, but so far it's not too good.

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I have Win 7 64 bit installed. All the games work from the windows games folder in C drive but all the shortcuts are dead.

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There is definitely a problem with the shortcuts being created in the Games directory inside the start menu. I had to recreate the shortcuts to my installed games since the auto made shortcuts don't seem to point to the correct target. Running Win7 x64 as well.

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There are some video cards that are not compatible for windows 7 yet that is why games are mess up http://www.start64.com/

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I'll throw an idea into the mix - using your add/remove programs and then windows programs and make sure the games are actually installed (yeah I know, if the short-cuts are there, they should be). Even if the files themselves are there on the hard-drive if registry entries weren't made properly then they'd likely not work.

Good luck.

Cheers.

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If you getting kicked from COD4 for "unknown windows API" punkbuster kick, you can try
the following. It worked for me.

run services.msc
go down to PnkbstrA and PnkbstrB services.
in the properties of each one, under the Log ON tab
where it says Local system account, there is an empty check box
labeled "Allow service to interact with desktop" tick that box in both services.
apply and restart your system.

went from being kicked every 20 seconds, to playing a full match without a kick.

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Punkbuster will not support Windows 7 until the final release, so you will just have to play on servers not running Punkbuster , or go back to Vista/XP

http://www.punksbusted.com/forums/index.php?act=announce&f=1&id=26

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hi i finally put cs source, left 4 death and cod 4 to work in x64 and x86 edition .
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my problem was my micro was not connected in the pink jack , i found this problem exist in vista to .

good luck

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hi

problems with windows games
try go to Control Panel- Programs and Features- turn windows features - and uncheck games press ok and restart , after do same thing and select games put the check and restart .

hope it works

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spybot search and destroy

Spybot works with Win 7, I installed and ran it with no problems. I didn't use teatimer or the ie protection because I use avg for my main protection. It was a slight bit slower running the scan but I think that was due to me running Win 7 with 1 gig of memory. I have 2 gigs on my Vista.

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I, too, have had no issues running Spybot on W7 X64. SpywareBlaster also works very well.

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I too can confirm Spybot S&D works fine Windows 7 (x86). Tea Timer works and functions such as edit startup items also works.

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CPU usage too high during Guide downloads?

I have Win7 32-bit and 64-bit installed on two different PCs. I recently noticed when I view cpu use during guide downloads that update process uses up to 50% of the cpu capacity for several minutes on my Core2 Duo E8400 and 25-30% of my Quad-core Q600 for a similar lengthy period. It has no effect on the normal use of the Quadcore PC but sometimes when the guide download is being processed on the dual-core E8400 and I try to open Media Center it takes a long time for it to open. (sometimes several minutes). Has anyone else opened task manager during a download and noticed high cpu use during download processing? That E8400 is a 3 Ghz (fast?) cpu and I wouldn't think it should be that tough for it to process a guide download? I can't imagine a older, slower processor coping very well if the task is that difficult. I have no errors noted during the download on either PC and the only thing I can guess that might be the problem is that Win7 is not operating the hard disk optimally since I get only a 3.0 WEI rating in Win7 versus 5.9 in Vista for the same model hard drive.
The Intel website said it was not necessary to load Sata/RAID drivers during the initial Vista O.S. installation so I didn't try to load SATA drivers during the Win7 install. I'm not even sure that the "F-6" drivers from Intel will install during the Win7 O.S. install.....I had to use Vista "compatibility mode" to get the bus drivers installed after the O.S. install. Anyone have any thoughts/solutions to the apparently slow hard drive performance? I've noticed a lot of posts about Win7 WEI ratings of hard drives showing 3.0 for others as well.
I also have Vista Ultimate and Home Premium installed on other PCs along with the trial version of the TV pack and have observed the same high CPU usage for guide download processing so it may be normal for the complicated guide necessary to support analog/QAM listings. It wouldn't be so bad except the guide updates very frequently and my poor cpu's are being over-taxed LOL!

Changed type Ronnie VernonMVP Saturday, February 7, 2009 1:24 AM

Installation problem

I'm having trouble completing my Windows 7 Beta 1 installation. It gets to 21% on the Expanding Files and goes no further, even after leaving it for hours. What can be done to have the installation complete?

http://www.thestream.tv

Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Monday, February 23, 2009 1:49 AM

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I had a download from a third part site initially that behaved like that. I would re-download it ONLY from Microsoft site again. It is a long download, and one minor blip can mess it up. Also, burn the image at a slow speed.

Note - I also had trouble with a relatively new internal Sony DVD-RW drive. Could not get past same place. Then I tried an external SATA/USB LG Blu-Ray RW drive (recognized as a boot device in my BIOS), and no further problems.

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like you experiencing download problems..each time download reaches 99% and no further!? please advise..

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I've had no issues at all with the installation.. I first ran the .ISO In Virtual PC 2007.. And it worked fine.. So I have installed it on my main PC.. So I'm running a dual boot system now, With both Vista home prem and Windows 7.. The .ISO Download only took me about an hour to download..

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Can't back from energie safe mode

Problem: i returned from energie safe mode( power on ), my USB Mouse und keyboard are offline, i see the desktop but i can't control
i think the usb are energie off ( no red light on my mouse, and no light at keyboard)
i can only reset the pc

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This is happening to me too. I check back on my PC the next day and I have a black screen that I can't wake up from. Looking forward to an answer to fix this.

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The same here. But only with the x64 version. It does resume with a blank screen with mouse pointer. I have to reset.
Same hardware, but x86 version is resuming just fine...

No idea how to solve it.

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No problems here with power management of the USB host controllers with the x64 version.

Have you tried checking the event viewer for any errors?

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thanks for response,

i have checked the event viewer but no errors.
No idea how to solve it. i think my hardware are to old (intel P4 skt. 478)

i hope for future hardware works fine, but win7 are very fast on my old system, no other problems

very nice

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Mouse Freezes to Work after VISTA upgrade to Windows7

Hi ...... I upgraded my VISTA laptop to Windows 7 . The upgrade went on well, & the first 15 minutes of my experience with Windows7 was awesome . But after that my pointer just stopped moving . Suspecting this to be a temp problem i went in for a re-boot . But even after that my problem is the same . My Mouse freezes to work after somthing like 5~10 min .

It is a HP Laptop.

Any help with this would be appreciated .

Sunil Kandammattil

Sunil K

Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Monday, February 16, 2009 9:48 PM

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Have you tried downloading the Vista drivers and installing them?

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Nope ... Looks to be a good suggestion ... Let me give it a try today ......... will update the results .

Sunil K

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Taskbar on the left side and many icons : opinions about this layout ?

If you have many icons pinned to the taskbar and then move the taskbar to the left side instead of getting a double row of icons it gives a slider.
What do we think of this behaviour ? Should it be 2 rows or do we like this ?

Here is an example :

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh106/Antoniya001/lefttaskbar.jpg

Arjan

Default-installed games

Hello !

I've a problem with the default-installed games. I've tested to launch two of them (hearts and minesweeper), and I crashed my virtual box twice ! The desktop freeze, the mouse continue to move, but can't click. Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work, only the reset.

Has someone the same problem ? Or am I too unlucky to test a beta ?

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I have a problem with the default games also. I have a problem with the chess program. It crashes my computer whenever I try to undue a move. The blue screen flashes by so fast I am unable to retrieve information for trouble shooting. How can you tell if or when the info is sent to Microsoft? Where is the log stored so I can look at what is being sent?

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Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Monday, February 16, 2009 11:40 PM

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I had this same problem with a Dell Optiplex 740. Whenever I had antivirus software installed it would crash with TDX.sys. With no antivirus software installed it runs flawlessly. Not one blue screen. I have Win 7 on an HP desktop and an HP laptop with antivirus and no problems. I tried a different network card in the Dell and still had the same problem whenever antivirus was installed. So I'm not sure what the conflict is.

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Same problem here - at least I think it is. After installing the 64bit-beta, installing most of the essential software I need and setting up everything I installed one of the recommended anti-virus-programs. Some time later myscreen showed lots of colorful artifacts before turning dark and ignoring every input (looks like its power-saving mode). The only solution is to do a hard-reset. Strange colors on the display? Of course I suspected the graphics card, but after I deinstalled the beta driver I got that "TDX.sys" bluescreen in combination with a "IRQL-NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"-error message. (Which only appears If the graphics driver is deinstalled, otherwise those artifacts appear)
I didn't really know what else to do until I found this topic: I used one of the restore points to get to the point before I installed AVG (that anti-virus-thing). I haven't had an error since , so I think it has got to do with that. The problem is that I am now exposed to the malicous threats of the internet. ;) Seriously, I would like some protection.

What could be the reason for this strange behaviour? Is something up with the 64-bit-version? Any idea which anti-virus-software could work?

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I'm running the 32bit version so it's not that. I tried both Kaspersky and AVG. It has something to do with a conflict between the antivirus and one of the drivers. Perhaps it's the video driver for some reason. What graphics card/driver are you using?

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Hi,
I got a HD2600 XT and the driver I suspected is called "ATI Technologies Inc. driver update for ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT (Prerelease - WDDM 1.1)" and is distributed through windows update.

I am not sure, however, If it is a specific driver's fault, because I also tried a vista driver which showed the same behaviour. And, as I said, without any driver I get this bluescreen. I am not even sure If the drivers or the graphics card have anything to do with the problem itself. Their behaviour may just be a symptom of some other problem. I am not sure, though. The only thing I am quite sure of is that removing the antivirus software has improved the situation. (But I removed it just some hours ago, so I probably have to wait some time to be sure that it's working fine)

I just found that one here, there seems to be more information about that issue:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproappcompat/thread/53a5d149-0258-4853-a153-cf53c5681110
At least we're not the only ones.

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Diminished sound

One thing i noticed after linking to all my music, when it plays it has a quiter output than vista. I'm not sure the reason for this as it is the same computer with the same sound setup. For some reason I have turn my amplifier up more in order to produce the same output.

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Experiencing the same problem.

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Do you have new drivers for the sound card or are you using the generic ones?

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Windows 7 Beta on ESX Server

Well, the question is simple.

If you want to install, you must configure 11Gb on disk space. If not, the installation begin, but after the installation files expanding, the virtual machine enter in a spiral of error and restart...

has somebody tested this way?

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For any OS I have used and tested on ESX Server (Linux, Windows, or otherwise), I always give a minimum 25GB of disk space so that I won't run into any issues related to storage. It seems to me that 11GB is kind of small for Win7.

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Install on Intel D201GLY2

Product looks great so far guys. Here's my initial install impression:

Tried x64 version of the software (the board runs 64 for me and I do testing on it).
Install went without a hitch
One thing that appeared strange to me was that during the install phase the hard drive partitioning didn't seam to give as much feedback. When I deleted the old partitions off the drive and clicked next it installed. I didn't prompt me to create any partitions (after investigation it created a 200mb recovery and the remainder for install).
Next the copying data portion happened in a split second, I thought this would take much longer
The extracting data took about 45 minutes to an hour on this machine (I checked periodically during dinner for status).
After the install startup was pretty much standard.
Total install time was about 2 hours on this hardware.

Issues I found with 64 bit:

No drivers for video (SiS* Mirage) that I could find
No drivers for network adapter (SiS* 900)
Sound drivers worked

I ended up getting the 32 bit version of Win7 and installed that. All of the drivers from Intel worked and the machine is currently running (posting from it). Even the graphics driver worked and allowed proper resolution (1680x1050). I used the XP drivers directly from Intel's download page and they installed without issue.

I'm using an old 40gb hdd and have 1gb of ram installed (though 128 are used for video) and performance seams adequate. Media center takes a while to start (probably due to the 1.2ghz processor).

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Hi,

I have checked, Intel Web Site do not seems to have drivers for Win Vista x64 either.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Filter_Results.aspx?strOSs=All&strTypes=All&ProductID=2873&lang=eng&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems

Hence, yes, seems the board may not be able to run x64..

Thanks.

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Vista 32 Business upgrade with Windows 7 - all working

Lenovo R61, 2GB RAM, NVidia Quadro NVS 140 - update Vista Business 32 and voila'! Windows 7 running and kicking!

One small issue that Medal of Honor game did not worked. Windows 7 update suggested to update my video driver and after that the game was running and I was killing like a brave!
Also the new driver, made SETI detect CUDA enabled video board! That was a pleasant surprise!

My machine is from IBM/Lenovo so it has a lot of proprietary software: for amovible discs, for wifi, for everything! It has the ThinkVantage button that show's many many options to configure and all I've seen so far is working.

Again, I think that this shows that IBM and Lenovo are serious about building device drivers, because I use everthing from the finger-scan to wifi configuration.

Also SQL Server Express and IIS 7 are working too. Well, all Express editions for c++, vb.net and c# are too. And I have Avast anti-virus and OpenOffice and Media Center and BOINC SETI etc etc.

Well, gotta go and play Medal of Honor now!

Adelino Araujo

Virtual PC 2007 misdetects avaliable free disk space for new virtual hard disks.

I'd have entered this through the "Microsoft Beta Client", but it throws an exception attempting to upload the report at the end, and trying to open the help file, and... (rant for another post, I feel).

When Virtual PC 2007 (6.0.156.0) is running as a limited user (ie. without elevation) on Vista SP1 RC1, it appears unable to detect the ammount of free space avaliable, instead detecting something around 8MB or 130MB for dynamic disks.

Should you accept something this size, it corrupts the output.

Steps to reproduce:

Launch Virtual PC without elevation.
Launch the Virtual Disk Wizard, ie. file -> Virtual Disk Wizard.
Create a new virtual disk
A virtual hard disk
Pick a name, for instance "a". It's been suggested that this doesn't work with spaces in paths, but I can't confirm that here, it breaks either way, ie. the paths:
"C:\Users\Faux\Documents\lulz.vhd"
and
"C:\Users\Faux\Documents\My Virtual Machines\Nuggan\Nuggan Hard Disk.vhd"
yield identical results for the next step.
Pick either of the first two options, Dynamically expanding or Fixed size.
Observe being told that the "Maximum virtual hard disk size: " is 8MB or 130MB respectively.
Enter 130 and press Next.
Observe the "Size:" field.

Expected results:

At step 7, be offered a size that's closer to the available space on the disk. In this example, the disk in question "C:" has 10GB+ free, trying other drives with more space yields identical results.
At step 9, don't be shown garbage: http://faux.uwcs.co.uk/virtualdiskwizardsize.png

Does anyone else get this?

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Information on this error (bug?) is scarce. I have just installed MS VPC 2007 with the same result you had. Did you find a way to fix it? The disk I installed on was a RAID drive with 30GB free, and it will only allow 130MB max HD size. I am going to try it on a non-RAID drive and see if that matters, but this is irritating nonetheless.

Brian

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Fails to see secondary raid drive

In windows 7 when I open up my computer I only see two of my hard drives, one of which is raid striped, but it fails to see the other raid drive. Why would that be?

Split by Othorvath Friday, January 16, 2009 7:29 PM
Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Monday, February 16, 2009 10:18 PM no reply to followup Q
Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Monday, February 16, 2009 10:18 PM no reply to followup Q

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Check your Disk Management screen. It could very well be that the other RAID drive was not assigned a Drive Letter. This is a known issue and have been reported.

~Alex T.~Windows Desktop Experience MVP~

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Is this a Windows create RAID or Hardware Raid? Did you look under Devices to if there any splats next to any controllers?

Joe

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WS2003 NEEDED FOR PRACTICE

Hello,
Please where can I find Windows Server 2003 to install and practice with?
Any help appreciated.

Thanks
Chris

Changed type Aaron.ParkerModerator Friday, July 8, 2011 2:05 PM

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Try this out for Windows Server 2003 R2.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb430831.aspx

And this if you would like Windows Server 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc137123.aspx

mattmcdermott

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ESET NOD32 Antivirus

I installed it (Version 3.0.684) on Win 7 32-bit and it seems to work fine!!

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I'm running the 64bit version on Windows 7 64bit and it's been working flawlessly for a week now.. Used the same regitration details as I got for my 32bit version..

Regards
Alex

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It's working ok for me with one exception. With NOD32 running, I get an error message whenever iTunes tries to update a library file, and eventually Win7 says I need to run chkdisk due to file corruption.

If I put an exclusion in NOD32 for the iTunes folder in My Music the problem goes away.

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Black screen after pressing f8 to get more boot options - Not the same as other resolution issues!

Hi I had a quick look through a lot of the common problems but I havent found this specific issue - sorry if its a repeat question.

My problem seems the same as a lot of others.

Boot from DVD fine, select custom install fine, does the copy / expand / update bit fine then does the first reboot.

If I leave the pc to boot of its own accord i dont see a boot menu or anything just a black screen after the post.

I am able to stall the boot process by pressing the up and down arrows on my keyboard as this invokes the selection of which partiton / windows install i want to boot from.

At this stage I can boot my old copy of XP (the new boot loader then calls the old one and xp loads fine) or choose windows 7.

If I select windows 7 I get a black screen - the computer has not stalled as I can see from the keyboard but my only option there is to alt+ctrl+del.

Curiously (and this seems less common) if I press f8 to try to select a different resolution for the boot up I also get the same instant black screen.

The memory test works fine :P

Im running the 32 bit version on fairly old hardware. (a 939 amd board with 4 gig and 2X 7800 gforce GTS in SLI)

From the number of threads on the forum im guessing its video related, would it be worth pulling my second graphics card out for the install?

Ty for any help in advance :)

-edit- As I have mentioned in the subject line this is not the same as the low res issues people have been having. Most are able to get the menu up and select safe mode or boot at low res or something. On my installation just pressing F8 at the loader screen alone makes my screen go black. The only time i ever see the new flashing windows load up logo is the first time you boot from the DVD.

Edited by gorby Friday, January 16, 2009 4:24 PM
Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Saturday, February 21, 2009 1:53 AM

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Sounds like my problem... : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprohardware/thread/b6fd4b11-956f-474a-9ae6-a15b2c3666cc

Have you tried an old CRT monitor?

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I Checked out your problem, its slightly different to mine - i never get the windows logo at all after the first reboot. Thx for the tip anyway I tried it but no luck sadly. I do think its video related, plenty of threads here seem to sugest that bit of the install is a little shaky.

Not much to try but the long shot now - reburn and hope for 2nd time lucky :)

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Out of curiosity, what chipset/ide controle chip are on the motherboard?

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Intel P35.

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digioso said:

Intel P35.

This is a different problem to yours. You can see an f8 sub menu and also see the windows logo after your second reboot, I can not. I belive your problem is video related, whereas mine is not, ive tested the installation process with a different card, a single 7600 connected to a crt monitor same thing happens.

Mobo: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe

Chipset / storage : Nv nforce 4 SLi

Also has a silicon image raid controller but i have that disabled with nothing connected to those ports.

Im am a little bit curious about the download though. Although my downloads have used a good chunk of my bandwidth (500 kb/s out of around 800 kb/s max) my connection felt really choppy when the download was running. It kind of felt like the app had too may sockets / connections going - like a badly configured bitorrent client. Would be nice to be able to get an MD5 for

7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso 2.43 GB (2,618,793,984 bytes)

and

7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.iso 3.15 GB (3,387,009,024 bytes)

edit - My downloads are fine, found the md5 sums for the images on an unoffical windows 7 forum.

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