On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Rick wrote:

> Are you trying to boot from a 64-bit Win7 installation disk? I never had
> trouble with the 32-bit versions.

   Yep. Win7/home/SP1-64-bit.

> I suspect the issue that I was running into was that, while the computers
> were fully 64-bit capable, there was something in the BIOS (or, perhaps
> other firmwares on the system) that were not quite up-to-snuff for the new
> 64-bit world.

   Well, the Latitude came with some Microsoft flavor installed; I
immediately overwrote that with Slackware-13.37/x86_64. So I imagine that
the Intel i7 (4 core) can handle 64-bit Microsoft.

Rich


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