Shibathedog Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Try using the Vista driver, supposedly Win7 is backward compatible with all of the Vista drivers. From what I've read it's more like most of them though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Bios mod here, Win 7 ultimate OEM runs fine on my old Acer aspire (2005) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Try using the Vista driver, supposedly Win7 is backward compatible with all of the Vista drivers. From what I've read it's more like most of them though.tried that, no go. there isn't even a 64bit vista driver for my card. which seems odd as it is a Linksys WMP54G. a card that is widely available at every best buy and walmart. It's not like it is some oddball no name card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Yeah that is a bit odd. Especially since Linksys is actually Cisco. Very unlike them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VT-Vincent Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 Ever since Cisco took over Linksys, it seems like their products and support haven't been up to par. I have a PCI Gigabit card from them that they decided not to support in Vista. I also have had more reliability issues with their routers. I ended up moving over to D-Link for most of my networking needs since then, so far I've had a good experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Started a clean install last night with the latest BIE release and it didn't work. I installed it three different times: tried it once w/out internet, w/internet and not unchecking "Activate once you connect to the internet," then w/internet and unchecking Activate et al. Neither install would activate even though it's supposed to be pre-activated; not even with the HAZAR activator. Then I started looking around for solutions from my linux install and found the "Windows 7 Loader" which finally did the trick. Before doing so, I had GRUB reclaim the MBR just in case (since the loader works from boot). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Did you set a password during install? What you are supposed to do is disable the update check, not set any password (for your account or admin) and then when it boots to the desktop for the first time you just let it sit there until it restarts itself. If you want I can PM you a link about how to activate it manually if that still doesn't work. (It is funky with certain mobos I think) I have also started moving to D-Link, right now I run a WRT54GS V2 with Tomato though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 No, I didn't set a password or enable update check. Also, the cracking phase didn't initiate until after I entered my username, etc. An empty command line just appears and you're supposed to wait for it to finish AFAIK. Already got it activated with a loader though, but I won't be updating (I did update when it booted to the desktop for the firs time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Bah, loaders are no good.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VT-Vincent Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 I think I'm one of the few people that actually bought my copies of Windows 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Bah, loaders are no good....I'm using a loader and it seems fine. I do plan on getting around to doing a Bios hack sometime later. I think I'm one of the few people that actually bought my copies of Windows 7 probably Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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