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Oh My Science
Dec 29, 2008
Installed two days ago, no problems so far. It recognizes most of my software, and I can tell that it is performing better than my old Vista install.

One problem I am facing is the use of my G15 keyboard. I read online that I should be able to use the vista x64 drivers for the drat thing, but so far no luck. Whenever I start the installer it simply states that it cannot be used with this operating system.

Side note: Has anyone tried this with parallels or boot-camp yet? I don't think I would install it, I am just curious.

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Oh My Science
Dec 29, 2008

BizarroAzrael posted:

The download is going really slow for me, would there be some drawback to using a torrent that I don't see? It's going to be exactly the same as what I get from MS, right?

It's hard to say with a torrent, as it is almost impossible to predict where the file is coming from, or what transfer speed you'll get. I find it hard to believe you are getting lovely speeds from MS, considering I easily got over 2mb+ download. Much faster than most torrents.

Thanks for the advice about compatibility mode, it got my G15 working.

Oh My Science
Dec 29, 2008
I can change my sound output device now without having to re-open any applications to get it to switch over now. This for some reason makes me very happy.

Oh My Science
Dec 29, 2008
I can't login to windows 7 at all right now. When I enter my password it hangs at the welcome screen, and no amount of time produces an error. So far I have tried restarting in safe mode (which works) and creating a new Admin account... however that account also freezes at the welcome screen. I have also tried using the repair option on my disk, but it claims nothing is wrong. Turning off all services / startup programs aside from the regular MS ones does nothing too. No new hardware.

What is the next step?

Oh My Science
Dec 29, 2008

LoKout posted:

Check disk? You can run it from safe mode. It also could be a driver or software problem, though you disabled startup programs.

It was a fairly new install so I decided to reinstall. I'm almost certain it's a software problem, I just don't really know what could have caused it. I used check disk & didn't find anything abnormal either. Bad luck I guess.

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