Adam Yong

I doubt whether July is my lucky month..

As something happen in July 3rd, just my belate present, my Abit9 Pro Motherboard spoil, symptom is 12v slot problem, uGuru message 8.2. unable to check CPU voltage/Unable to enable ATX power.

Therefore, I bought new Asus P5Q-Pro, cost me 5++/-  somewhat it is first certified by WHQL for Windows 7, yet Asus provides Windows 7 driver. However, I found P5Q-Pro turbo has similar driver/software for Win7.

Yeah, it is new motherboard fix with my existing component. Working with Win7 still alright, just Booting up a bit slow. And sometimes few not smooth performance in the windows.

Tonight I got another message I should be sad, but now not really.

How unluck I have, I not hope it will have more to come next. Really hope it is my lucky month 7, as I love number 7. With combination number 2 makes  27 or 72.

Windows 7 Boot Logo

Running  the latest Operating System Windows 7 basically needs

• 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

I’m running Windows 7 (32bi) in my desktop pc which specs are slightly higher than requirement.

• Intel Pentium D 945 3.4GHz 4MB L2 cache
• Abit AB9 Pro Motherboard with Intel P965/G965 Chipset (ICH8/R)
• 2x Kingston 1GB DDR2 667 RAM
• GeCube ATI x1600 512 DDR2 Virtual RAM Graphic Card
• WD 320GB Harddisk

For my C drive i only set 38GB free for running my windows. Due to previous I partition it small.

Apart that, I recommend if you want to run Windows 7, the specs that I recommended are:

• Processor 2.8GHz above
• 2GB DDR 2 RAM (at least)
• Free space for your C more than 40GB but less than 100GB in order for you to process faster
• Latest Graphic Card which Windows 7 certified (mean can support win7)
• Motherboard that at least support up ICH8/R above

Running Windows 7 it just like running Vista but each component process no matter application, system, etc is running faster than Vista.

In additional, current Windows 7 is under evaluation, it is Release Candidate Version, for developer, IT Professional, etc test it.

Okie, Problem I faced currently….

My driver, the graphic driver is not support as well my Abit uGuru component driver is not compatible with Win 7.

Sound Driver which I’m running Realtek and it is same driver which uses for Vista, therefore I installed it and it is running smoothly.

Software Problem

My Adobe Photoshop CS3 is not running and cannot be installed, it forces me to switch to latest CS4 version and it is compatible.

So far some software that I installed which compatible with Win 7 are:

• Winrar 3.80 (somewhat compatible)
• Winamp 5.552 (no conflict problem)
• Firefox 3.0.10 (no conflict problem)
• MSN Messenger  2009 (no conflict problem)
• Babylon 7.0 (no conflict problem)
• Flashget 1.96 (no conflict problem, just not to install winxp plugin)
• Flashget 2.0 (no conflict problem, just not to install winxp plugin)
• Adobe Reader 9.1 (no conflict problem)
• PPStream (no conflict problem, just not to install winxp plugin)
• K-lite Codec 4.80 (no conflict problem)
• Real Alternative 1.90 (no conflict problem)
• Eset NOD32 v4 Antivirus (Compatible with Windows 7)

All above are tested so far, more to be test lately.