Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade

Pros: It works ----- now!

Newegg: 5 eggs!
Excellent, as usual. All items received on time in well packed box. Good job, shipping department!

Cons: Win 7 64 bit RAID drivers are defective! Furthermore, Windows update fails to offer or inform us that updated drivers for “Nvidia Nforce” 5, 6, and 7 series chipset are available.
Shame on you, Microsoft!
Problem:
After Windows initiates and formats the “Raided” drive, the drive acts normal until restart or shut down. After restart, the bios raid indicates degraded raid drives. Bios raid shows two separate degraded drives. (I used Raid 1 – Mirror. Perfect for preventing critical data loss) Of course, one may think that a drive has failed, but that is not the case. Obviously, after many late nights I determined that Windows was causing them problem. One can only wonder how many other driver and/or updates we are missing.

Other Thoughts: Yes! This is an older quad core on an Asus supreme board, but I did a “Clean install” with the Win 7 upgrade. (No old drivers on disc) Besides, Win 7 is different than XP, so XP drivers should have been replaced. They claim “Windows Update”, but in reality, it’s not! I can get similar headaches by using Linux based software, but you get what you pay for. (Zero $)
I am building this computer for someone that, unfortunately, makes blondes look good. Yes, he is the one that customer service puts on hold because he is 6 steps behind where they told him to go. (I pity those people) He can use a computer, but gets lost if it is too technical. I depend upon Microsoft to update properly, so I don’t to fix the computer every day.

Pros: Typical Microsoft

Cons: On install, invalid product key notice was received. Skipped that to finish install. Went online to authenticate, failure notice said that this key was for an upgrade to existing software and did not cover a clean install. The clean install is talked about on the box and was an option in the install process. Hate to call MS to get this resolved but may be the only option.

Pros: It's nice to see MS put out a good OS; it's been a while since XP SP2.

Cons: Compatibility with older programs leaves something to be desired in some circumstances.

Pros: It came and it installed.

Cons: The Product Key "is not valid". I have had this happen three times now with MS operating system and MS office.

Pros: none now

Cons: it messed up my computer and im preety sure bios which i dont now how it cna do that.... because its a upgrade and they are bad
i had to format my harddrive like 5 times and i couldnt figure out why it was being glichy...
time would go to pacific time soon when im in eastern... updates wouldnt work or install at all or be ignored...

Other Thoughts: buy the start up disk if u want win7... dont upgrade plz waste of money
i bring it to a guy that is VERY high computer builder and program skilled and he actuly worked for micosoft and he said it made my windows curruped and my bios i didnt now that so i started buying new cpu power supply harddrive and blew my mebo....so now i have new system
SPEND THE EXTRA MONEY AND BUY A START UP DISK U CAN USE IT FOREVER!!!!

Pros: Windows 7 is far superior to Vista and as stable as, if not more so than, XP. The upgrade worked out of the box

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: ThermalTake El Diablo Black Gaming ATX Full Tower Case
LG DVD Burner - Bulk Black SATA Model GH24LS50 LightScribe Support – OEM
Rosewill 40-in-1 USB 2.0 3.5” internal card reader
Scythe SCMG-2100 Sleeve CPU Cooler
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition Callisto 3.2GHz Socket AM3 80W Dual-Core Desktop Processor (Quad-Core with dormant cores unlocked)
XFX P1-650X-CAG9 650W ATX12V 2.2 / ESP12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
HIS IceQ H567Q1GD Radeon HD 5670 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ Eyefinity
GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000 5-Button Blue Track
Windows 7 64bit Professional

Pros: No issues whatsoever with Windows 7...most efficient OS on the market today...

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: None.

Pros: what can I say? Win7 Pro...perfect. I did a clean install on a dell optiplex 755 which had Vista Biz on it. Luckily, it was completely infected and hosed. I popped the Win7 CD in there, booted up to it, did a clean install as I didn't need anything from before, installed in 12 minutes, SP1 took almost 30 minutes to install, also installed IE9 and all updates...all in under an hour. Anyone remember how a Windows 2000 install would take half a day?

Cons: none.

Other Thoughts: came with 32 and 64 bit bit dvd's in box.

Pros: 64-bit and very, very fast on every machine I've installed it on. I have actually had more luck running older software and games under Windows 7 than under Windows Vista. So far, Windows 7 has been very stable and reliable on all the machines I've setup with this OS. Of course, all the systems that I maintain are setup and then locked down so average users cannot mess up the OS.

Cons: NONE.

Other Thoughts: It's funny how so many people blame Windows and / or Microsoft for their own inadequacies at using a computer. I had a guy drop off a system the other day, and he said he hated Internet Explorer because it never worked right for him ... he wanted me to install Firefox. (Which I did.) I opened IE8, and he must have had every toolbar that was ever made installed. All the toolbars literally took up half of his IE browser window. Uninstalling them all "magically" made IE start working again. I've run all of Microsoft's OSes, and I have to say, they've all run fine for me - provided I didn't go A-Wall with off-hand software, cheap hardware with lousy drivers, and as long as I never went in and tuned it up so "good" that it wouldn't even boot up anymore. C'mon people, give me a break.

Pros: It's Windows...what more can I say? There's nothing better.

Cons: None, i'm happy