Running NEW Beta Windows XP Professional 64 bit Edition
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
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NO - fortunately I have the i860 working as above. I haven't even booted to 64bit in a couple of days - very busy time for me - papers to write, books to read......
For WindowsUpdate non-working issues:
First, it's a Beta, this might not work, but TRY and see as an experiment, ok??? Try this URL and see if it offers you new WindowsUpdate software:
http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
Microsoft is rolling XP over to Version 5 site of WindowsUpdate, starting with SP2. That is where my XP Pro SP2 (final) updates are coming from now. If you get anything, expect an SP2 for IE 6.0 amongst the things offered.
As to the i350, try it with a USB 2.0 capable cable if the parallel cable is not working, especailly if the parallel cable is not an IEEE1284 two-way Parellel cable (you would then have probably had to force print directly to printer when installing older drivers, and newer XP is tuned more for USB 2.0 than older OSs or earlier original XP 2002 release was). IF that does not work, look for newer Drivers (IIRC, this is a Canon inkjet or bubble jet, right??).