Windows 7 Beta on M1530

Installed Windows 7 as my main OS yesterday. Its a beta 1 but its a lot better than Vista in every way possible (supports the 185.20 Nvidia beta driver).

I still haven't tested any games, but I am going to test some and post my findings here

 

I can say Wow runs great. Havent tried anything else. I actually have a slight improved performance on WoW, Better frame rate and no more, screen tearing when in windowed mode.

 

Umm.. i have a question.
I'm planning on dual-booting Windows 7 Build 7000, with my existing install of xp pro x64, on my system. Do i need to download the drivers seperately or can i download them natively via windows update?

 

Im not sure since you have XP installed, as far as basic function of my laptop i didnt have to download anything outside of what windows 7 did. With the exception of my video drivers.

 

yeah had a quick look, its remarkably fast

tested it on a am2 4200 with ddr1 ram!

so it should be good for the lappy but i think ill wait for a 64bit..

 

Dameon tools cant be installed on Windows 7, and so now I am looking for a image mounting software T.T

 

hmm Try Virtual Clone Disk or MagicDisk

 

may i ask how you got invited to the windows 7 beta ? ^_^

thanks

 

MS Connect :wink:

 

Did you simply use Vista drivers for everything? Also, did you load the AHCI driver during the install, or is that step not necessary for Windows 7?

 

i have beta tested vista before but i havent gotten invited to windows 7 beta D:

 

Virtual CloneDrive worked for the mounting (took me time to find a working software XD)

Yeah I used vista drivers for evereything, and I am not having any compatibility problems. I didnt run the AHCI driver while installing

 

I would be interested in a screen shot of Win 7, if it looks any different from Vista...

 

those ^^ are all windows 7 ss's

 

looks like vista :/

 

nm looks

performance wise it blows vista out of the water !!!!!

 

Looking good, hopefully it will finally allow XP to die honorably

 

I also am testing Windows Seven (32 bits).. and something I need to add is that the OS only take 800MB of RAM, and I have virtual memory turned off, in windows Vista 64 the OS takes 1300 Mb of Ram on my XPS (also virtual memory off)

First impression may be "it's looks like vista" but they did some title changes all over the OS like in the task bar, no only is bigger also the notification bar works different than before.

About the XPS M1530 the only Driver you need to install manually is the Nvidia and the finger print reader, every driver or software for vista will be compatible with seven as well ... (well that they told me, but I didn't know until now about the Daemons Tool software)

Do I like Seven???..... YES!!!... I can wait for the 64 bit version of build 7000!

 

Well, I installed Windows 7 this afternoon. Installed fine, seems to run really well. The only glitch so far is that I can seem to add my Dell Bluetooth Stereo Headphones. I tried with the drivers included with Windows 7, and then after failing that I installed the Dell Widcomm drivers for Vista. The drivers install fine, but it just doesn't see my headphones. (Sees my cell phone though.) That's a major bummer, since I use these BT Headphones all the time for watching movies on the M1530. Hope that gets rectified by the official release.

 

i have access to windows 7 beta, but dont feel like reinstalling something again in 6 months...

tried it on a VM... works great...

 

I have tried it in VMware WS 6 and it ran great even with only 1GB ram and used only ~500mb

 

My Vista setup (after a lot of tweaking) uses only 800mbs.

 

Uh, OK. Ignore this. I'd forgotten that you have to hold the power button down on the headphones to enter discovery mode. The Dell BT Stereo Headphones work just fine under Windows 7 after all.

 

Tested CoD:WaW and I am getting a really good FPS (Its between 25-50 FPS) and I have everything on high
BTW i am using 179.23 that came from an update that I got using Windows update (tried 185.20 and it didnt give me the amount of performance that i got when I installed it on windows vista )

 

Why not use VMware 6.5.1?

 

:I wanna try it but I cant find a x64 version so

 

Any way to get it online?

 

Official beta is released to MSDN and Technet subscribers today.
It will be out for public on Jan 9th (Friday).

 

Torrents

 

be sure to keep us in the loop, so that when its released we can try it out

 

so am i suppose to make a separate partition and install the beta there
if i want to try windows 7 beta on my m1530? or just install it right in m c: drive?
can someone clear this up :$

 

can anyone else confirm this? the 64bit version?

how much ram does 32bit win7 support?

 

did u guys install the ahci driver during installation? i jus installed seven (typing from it now )

 

can you elaborate on the meaning of "public" because I really wanna test it

 

i'd really like to test this out, but i'm not even sure if 512 RAM would run it . anyone think it would be a good idea to try, or just wait til i upgrade soon?

also, if i do decide to try it out, i'd imagine i'd need to partition my harddrive...how do i even do that? lol, and is that reversible?

...Yes, i'ma N00bie

 

Indeed it will run mate I tried in a VM it ran fine so why now but i would suggest atleast 1GB for Win7

 

Before anyone plays any variable bit rate mp3s on build 7000 with WMP12, make sure you install the hotifx from Microsoft. Or else it could truncate the first 2-3 seconds of your songs permanently.

 

Both x86 and x64 versions are out, x86 build is the same (7000) that was leaked earlier plus the hotfix for mp3s.
Windows 7 x86 on M1530 will support up to 3.5GB RAM.

Public as in anyone can download it from official Windows 7 website.
It is expected that there will be a lot of demand, so servers might be slow or crash.

 

Should i do a VM..or just download it directly...when it comes out..

From all the reviews..i heard it is a masterpiece...and with very litttle if at all problems...

How are people installing it.. How do you go about it? IF -- you want to to do a virtual...

Thanks...

 

Just installed on my m1330 and it runs perfectly.
The fingerprint reader is not supported (i didn't even try installing vista drivers yet)
I am using the x64 version.
The only drivers i had to install were the synaptic one from the synaptic website ( dell drivers were not working for me) and the official nvidia drivers from nvidia website.

 

I am getting a solid 3 on my ratings for the hard disk. Does anyone know where to get the AHCI drivers for x64 Windows 7? I tried the intel matrix storage with no luck.

Thanks!

 

Those of you that installed the beta, what is the gaming performance like on that new 185.20 driver? Better/worse than XP?

EDIT: Also, has anyone attempted overclocking with Rivatuner?

 

I don't know that they're needed. I've installed Windows 7 (twice now actually) without pre-loading the ahci driver, and I'm getting the same disk score that I was getting under Vista (5.1).

 

Do you have AHCI enabled in bios and the Flash Cache?

 

Has anyone gotten a secondary display working over HDMI?

Everything else works beautifully for me, though I wish some MUIs or language packs were available.

EDIT: secondary display started working after a reboot. the graphics get screwed up when the desktop switches though

 

Aero not workin on x64! any ideas... (I'm gonna try other drivers soon)


Edit: the drivers from Windows update did the trick


In WEI I get 5.1


Edit 2:

My battery life is way better now, I get 3:30 hours in win 7, on vista (Or xp Tri-booting) I get at the most 2 hours (Better is going dead need a new one)

 

You have to get AHCI enabled during installation.

Win 7 is absolutely amazing! running really smooth. power management is really fantastic. even my temp's are lower (way lower) than vista.

gaming performance is pretty good. tried far cry 2, fallout 3, and nfs underground only now and haven't experienced any problems do far. i used the drivers via windows update. haven't recorded fps though, sorry.

I cant wait for Win 7 to be finally released! This is definetly a good direction that microsoft's taking.

cheers!

 

Public beta is out.

Here are direct download links from MS:

x86: http://download.microsoft.com/downl...00_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso

x64: http://download.microsoft.com/downl...0_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO

 

Cheers for the link
- Went mad yesterday trying to find a link on their website.