Windows 7 – Not Ready for Daily Home Theater Use Yet
2009-02-05
I installed the Windows 7 beta (32-bit) on my wife’s MSI Wind netbook with great success. In fact, it was flawless. So I decided to give it a try on the second Media Center computer (HTPC) that I just finished building using the 64-bit version. My results were as positive this time. Here a summary of why Win7 Beta didn’t work for me on my HTPC: Drivers. The drivers for the motherboard (Nvidia 9400) wouldn’t install from Windows Update and were over a month old. (At least I was able to install the latest drivers on the Nvidia website.) Lockups. The PC locked up twiceRead More →