*Which* version of Win 7 did you install? Jim KQ6EA --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Joe Camilli <joen7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Joe Camilli <joen7...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Flexradio] My 64 Bit Windows 7 Adventure > To: "Flexradio" <FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz> > Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 7:01 PM > I thought I would provide to the > group my experience of upgrading to Windows > 7 64 bit over the weekend. > > My approach was to build a new computer all together. For > the motherboard I > choose the GIGABYTE GA-MA790XT-UD4P. There were a few > reasons to use this > MB. First it gets good reviews on Newegg second it has a > serial port and > third it uses the TI chipset for the Firewire interface. > For the CPU I > originally intended to use the AMD 720 but a few weeks ago > the local Fry’s > had the AMD boxed 710 on sale for $49.00 and I could not > pass up the deal. > The system is also using 4GB of 1333 RAM > > For the boot drive I used two 250GB drives setup as a RAID > 0 strip set. The > install of W7 x64 went without any problems. In order to > move all my “stuff” > from my old machine to the new I used a program called > PC-Mover and it > worked just fine. The only programs I had to reinstall were > ones that had a > dependence on a device drive ie True Image, VAC, VSP > Manager. But this was > not a problem and I figured it would be needed anyway. All > my other > applications moved just fine. > > Okay now onto the Flex stuff. I am running the following: > > · Flex 3000 > > · PSDR 1.18.3 > > · VSP Manager > 1.0.1.017 > > · VAC 4.9.0.1652 > > · Voice Keyer 2.4 > > · HRD V5 Build 2321 > > · Firewire driver > set to 96kHz and 1024 buffer > > · DPC Latency > Checker v1.1.0 > > The only install issue I ran into was the well know problem > of signed > drivers. So in order to get VAC to install you need to set > the OS to test > mode. There several methods to turn the test mode on I just > downloaded a > small utility( *Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider > 1.3b) *to do it. You > do end up with a small watermark in the lower right-hand > corner showing the > test mode, there is a utility to get rid of it but not a > big deal for me. > > So some results of the DPC checker: > > · System at idle > 79us > > · With PSDR 82us > > · With PSDR and HRD > 83us > > So the big question does it all work – so far YES no > problems. > > I hope this brief write-up was helpful. I you have any > question please drop > me an email > > Joe N7QPP > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > Message delivered to kq...@pacbell.net > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
