a buddy of mine has a copy of windows 7 that hes installing on my machine today once i get my new hard drive (1TB for 65 bucks, smokin deal or what?!) and power supply... he says it runs fine on his old pentium4 h/t with 1.5GB of ram... might as well try it, huh?
...i downloaded the windows 7 upgrade advisor, and it says my system is ready, except for the sound card... the sb live isnt compatible with 7. (according to the advisor). should i upgrade card?

 

Sure why not...

 

would the XP drivers work in 7? (nonwindows drivers)?
along with the geforce drivers? if not, does 7 have a compatibility mode for XP drivers?

 

Those are really good questions I do not have answers for.

I would assume that you would be good with the Geforce drivers. They are usually up to date.

 

okay. figure install it, if i cant figure it out, i can always go back to xp. on my way now, will update this once i get it goin
wish me luck.
....im gonna need it.

 

You should be alright...I would hope that 7 is less buggy than Vista. It should be more compatible with hardware than Vista is.

 

ok, got my power supply in and hard drive in, but the new one is unplugged for the minute. windows 7 will not install. keeps stopping at a certain point saying the file is either missing or corrupted. so im just gonna say to hell with it and put xp 64bit on here. ...unless anyone here reccomends vista, i can get that too.

 

another update: the power supply didnt fix my problem. though my computer is way quieter.... im now thinking its the windows i have... maybe corrupted, i dunno. ill find out when i reload.

 

If you have at least 2GB RAM you'll be alright with Vista. I don't mind it so much now but next reload I think will be 7. I try and reload every 18 months or so.

 

vista ultimate?
and how would WoW run? i play that a lot, and thats the game im having problems with.

 

I have a buddy that plays and I think he's running Vista...The thing with Vista is that it's a memory hog.

Were you trying to load 7 on the new HD? Was that giving you the error? If not give that a shot, install 7 on the new HD.

 

yeah, 7 was giving me problems on the new hard drive. a file on the cd is corrupted, or something. so im downloading the .iso from microsoft and gonna make my own cd....

 

Sounds like a good idea...

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139006

this is way better than that 1000w psu

this has 60A on the 12v rail and it basically all comes down to amps and not watts

i built my first gaming pc 2 years ago with a 400w psu from corsair that had 32amps on the 12v rail

it ran my 8800gt no problem

 

uh... astang... i already bought a psu... lol.. thanks though

 

okay, update. got windows 7 installed on the new drive. downloaded it from microsoft. (today was the last day theyre offering it... ) however... IT DIDNT READ MY SB LIVE OR MY WIRELESS ADAPTER! so, i hooked up the old hd and currently is a dual-boot system. thinkin of leavin it that way....
when windows 7 comes out, ill give it awhile, but im DEFINITELY buying it!

 

sorry i just skimmed through a few posts

 

It won't take the drivers off the other drive? I'm assuming you did but have you checked the sites for latest drivers? Even if they do not have a 7 driver they might have a newer vista or xp that may work.

 

the problem is simply that linksys doesnt offer driver support for 64-bit operating systems, let alone windows 7. i gotta find a 3rd party driver for it.

 

think i might have found a third party driver already... downloading it now. will update.