lje777
27 Aug 2004, 8:22pm
XP 64bit Pro -- Beta Upgrade RUNNING WELL!!!
LINK to info and download or CD is on bottom of post.
I have the newest beta Windows XP Professional 64 bit up and running! ITE Driver is due from ITE raid (I emailed them and they replied it will be available in August - have not looked for it yet) -- but I have the OS on regular 120 gig IDE and can access all the files on my SATA drives - so that driver must be working.
Driver support is better but still minimal -- some Printer and other drivers are included on Cd -- of special note, my RTL 81xx Ethernet in included and works!!! I could not get online with the first BETA release. As for printing -- I sugggest doing as I did and try related drivers -- What I mean is as follows - I have three printers - Canon i350, i860 and Brother MFC3820CN. Only the Canon i860 works in 64bit OS (and Linux also!) -- BUT to get it to work I had to use the on disk BJC8000 driver which is fine for text -- did not try other then the default settings.
It has a firewall setting, that I turned off for now. Windows Update will not work - hoped to find more drivers. I really think the firewall etc is what we are all about to see on our existing 32 bit installs once we get SP2 installed - which is due now (has anyone gotten that yet?).
So far, all my programs known to be 32-bit work fine! Ihad one I believe is 16bit (made in 1998) that will not run -- nor will some of my other driverless hardware like my CHEAP digi-cam.
I do suggest everyone interested get on board with this -- I seems best to install to a freshly formated harddrive -- the 'Quick format' option is fine. My attempt to upgrade did not work and was also my problem when I tried to upgrade from 32-64 bit with the original release. This version is most defineltely useful!The look and feel is very similar.
I am not bent over not having more drivers at this point -- with Lan and Printer running -- most everyday needs are yet -- bells and whistles like my MFC scanner and camera are lesser matters, esp since they are availble if I simply change boot order back to 32 bit. But if these things are still not useable after the retail release, I will be disappointed. Dual booting while in Beta is totally acceptabe -- but doing it 'forever' is not what I would want.
PS - those of u=you not in USA apparently can still get this software, but it says you mayneed to pay duties. The link is below
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/evaluation/upgrade.mspx
LINK to info and download or CD is on bottom of post.
I have the newest beta Windows XP Professional 64 bit up and running! ITE Driver is due from ITE raid (I emailed them and they replied it will be available in August - have not looked for it yet) -- but I have the OS on regular 120 gig IDE and can access all the files on my SATA drives - so that driver must be working.
Driver support is better but still minimal -- some Printer and other drivers are included on Cd -- of special note, my RTL 81xx Ethernet in included and works!!! I could not get online with the first BETA release. As for printing -- I sugggest doing as I did and try related drivers -- What I mean is as follows - I have three printers - Canon i350, i860 and Brother MFC3820CN. Only the Canon i860 works in 64bit OS (and Linux also!) -- BUT to get it to work I had to use the on disk BJC8000 driver which is fine for text -- did not try other then the default settings.
It has a firewall setting, that I turned off for now. Windows Update will not work - hoped to find more drivers. I really think the firewall etc is what we are all about to see on our existing 32 bit installs once we get SP2 installed - which is due now (has anyone gotten that yet?).
So far, all my programs known to be 32-bit work fine! Ihad one I believe is 16bit (made in 1998) that will not run -- nor will some of my other driverless hardware like my CHEAP digi-cam.
I do suggest everyone interested get on board with this -- I seems best to install to a freshly formated harddrive -- the 'Quick format' option is fine. My attempt to upgrade did not work and was also my problem when I tried to upgrade from 32-64 bit with the original release. This version is most defineltely useful!The look and feel is very similar.
I am not bent over not having more drivers at this point -- with Lan and Printer running -- most everyday needs are yet -- bells and whistles like my MFC scanner and camera are lesser matters, esp since they are availble if I simply change boot order back to 32 bit. But if these things are still not useable after the retail release, I will be disappointed. Dual booting while in Beta is totally acceptabe -- but doing it 'forever' is not what I would want.
PS - those of u=you not in USA apparently can still get this software, but it says you mayneed to pay duties. The link is below
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/evaluation/upgrade.mspx