So basically from what I have been reading is that if I have anything on my pc that isnt brand spankin new like from tomorrow, I will have to remember all of the components on my pc and go hunt for all of the driver updates. Otherwise I can look forward to a lifetime of crashes, or its back to xp till I want to deal with this new OS?
Not true. Look at my specs. I also have a machine with all 2001 hardware running flawlessly. A P4 1.5 Ghz 768 RDRAM.
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I litterally just got done installing a 64 bit version of 7 that I downloaded through the msdn academic site and the first blue screen was right when it was preparing the dektop for the first time, the second was when it asked me if I wanted the crap that goes with IE8 like preferred websites, and the third and final one before shuting it down was really random I think I was inbetween windows. Any help I guess would be much appreciated, and I do understnd that its a new OS and bugs and problems for any OS this new is very common.
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x86 is 32-bit
x64 is 64-bit
Simple explanation is that x64 can address and use greater than 4 GB or so memory while x86 can not.
x64 performs greater for intensive tasks such as video editing and encoding.
Those are by far not the only differences. But they are most talked about.
You can use safe mode + networking to do what I asked above if you really need to.
Yeah. I doubt you will have crashes running like that because any problematic drivers will not be loaded. Networking driver will be loaded though. Not a problem in all likelihood.
Actually what you say can be true.
My machine is made up of various parts from 2 months to 4 years old and Some of the pieces required some special attention to get going. Same thing I had to do with Vista, same with the switch to win 2k.
If you have a older franken machine then yeah, install clean, then upgrade drivers or add hardware one by one after that. The main initial issue is the motherboard drivers. Storage, memory, chipset. If those are not right, then you may get random crashes.
In some cases my hardware did have Vista drivers but not W7 and generally those work fine.
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I dont mean to rush but would like some feedback as to if I did the archive the right way or not, thnx
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