Thread: Next level of retirement....

Originally Posted by Mario F.

Well, first and foremost Microsoft recommends (and makes it a part of their Logo program) that a DPC shouldn't run for longer than 100 microseconds. Second, it isn't really Windows (XP or 7) that is responsible for that. DPCs are executed by device drivers. What you have there instead is a typical example of a bad driver for Windows 7 vs a good driver for Windows XP. Blame the manufacturer once you find the source.

Actually, Mario, I'm not getting any spikes... never over 300, which is usually while I'm watching the news and doing backups at the same time... very IO intensive stuff.

THIS machine doesn't have the audio and video problem. That's a whole different computer that also has no DPC spiking, just a consistently high delay... I never did figure that one out, I needed it working for a demo so it went back on XP real quick...

Still there is an audible difference in sound between XP and 7... as I now have my main machine dual booting, I can hear it... The XP sound is clear, almost transparent on FLAC sources where the Win7 machine is "cloudy" (for lack of a better term). It's the same hardware so I have to write that off to drivers as both are running Media Player Classic.

(If you're concluding that I'm all about AV, you're correct. I made my living at it for a long time)

Oddly, now that I'm dual booting, this install of Win7 seems better behaved... my DAC is working on both (which it never did before) but I haven't had the chance to check the other stuff just yet... Still drops keyboard characters though...

I dunno... An AMD 64x2 at 3ghz should do better than this... There's a noticeable difference in performance between 7 and XP... XP is clearly faster.

It just fries my gonads that I spent $1200 on several copies of an OS I'm likely to relgate to the dustbin...
Win7 Pro is $329.00 in my area...

I've installed Windows 7 on 3 computers and it has worked flawlessly.

The only trouble I have had is on one computer which is about 8 years old. I had to search around for the correct drivers for its old video and sound cards, and even with the correct video card driver I get choppy HD video (understandable...it's old hardware), but other than that that computer works great.

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I also love how fast Windows 7 boots compared to XP....even XP right out of the box.

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Originally Posted by DavidP

I've installed Windows 7 on 3 computers and it has worked flawlessly.

The only trouble I have had is on one computer which is about 8 years old. I had to search around for the correct drivers for its old video and sound cards, and even with the correct video card driver I get choppy HD video (understandable...it's old hardware), but other than that that computer works great.

Yep, I see that a lot... A lot of people use "last generation" pcs for HTPC systems and often as not they run into problems with Win7... usually XP is the fix.

I also love how fast Windows 7 boots compared to XP....even XP right out of the box.

Ok.. dual boot, same machine... Win7... 48 seconds. Win XP... 27 seconds.

See, that's what I don't get... I've put 7 in about 50 machines now (put XP back in 14 of them) and for some reason my results are wildly different than what is reported online... Now the logical first step in this is to blame myself: "What am I doing wrong". But amongst my little gang, others have done their own installs and some have purchased machines with Win7 installed at factory and they're experiencing the same issues... corrupt flash drives, DACs not working, crappy audio and video, keyboards dropping characters, etc. so I have a bit of a problem thinking this is my own fault...

Frankly, I'm beginning to wonder how much my opinion is being skewed by variance between obvious Win7 fan sites and the reality of day to day operations... They say it's so wonderful, flawless... no critical thinking... But one simply does not produce a double layer DVD full of code without at least a few bugs creeping into the mix.