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First to let everyone know if you want windows 64-bit go to microsoft.com they will let you download it and they send you a seiral number.
I just upgraded to a giga-byte GA-K8NS mobo with Athlon 64 2800+.
i downloaded xp 64-bit from microsoft, I had problems finding drivers for the ethernet and sound, so I went back to xp pro. If anyone know where to get them or has any help all will be thanked
so far they dont have a lot of drivers for xp 64bit. a friend of mine has a 64 bit and installed the win, but didnt find any drivers either. he said it was really fast but without drivers he couldnt play games and do anything more serious on the machine. what a shame....
ethernet and sound drivers should be available from giga-byte, the win xp ones "should" work just fine. Or simply give it a bit more time.
the xp ones do not work even the motherboard cd that came with it wont load upQuote:
Originally Posted by ZeD
If you have a NVIDIA chipset trying to run xp 64 bit here is a link to the drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp64_4.34
Installing them right now cross your fingures and pray for me thanks
Hey let us know the results of this install--curious as hell!Quote:
Originally Posted by hessons
well first that was the wrong driver set, but I did find it on the nvidia website, I am up and running on my desktop running xp 64 seems to be fine. I saw somewhere that there is 64 bit release of firefox but cant find it. If anyone has it or knows where to get it it will be great thanks everyone
what about all the other drivers like video, sound and all that?
all is working fine except my webcam no big deal i dont use it anyways, there is no onboard video, my old video card was too old of a agp to use so i'm using a 2 mb pci card for now, onboard sound is running fine no problems so far. Now i have a problem with the network, from my laptop i can access the 64 bit windows machine fine and can see all the shared folders, but on the 64 bit machine i can't even see the laptop, thrying to figure that one out than i can ghost the dirve for safty reasons, BTW microsoft pulled the 64-bit download from there site on friday sorry guys, looks like they are getting ready for the official release soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frakk
ps here is the link for the correct drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp64_6.25
asus seems to have decent 64bit driver support for their SLi mobos, tho I have steered clear of XP 64 because people have posted performance and drops and extended driver performance issues. I am just going to wait until Longhorn matures, then build a new system with the latest tech.
You'd probably want to wait to download the 64 bit XP OS for Windows. Without the drivers to be updated for the OS, you'd be better waiting for several months until the drivers have been updated.
its already avalible? thought it was comeing out twords the end of april
the RC1 and RC2 releases have been available as betas with a 1 year trial key.
I am going to wait until the first service pack comes out for xp 64 before i throw it on my two 64 bit systems.
I did teh same with xp too and waited to first service pack when i was using 98 lol.
I have a hard drive in one of my systems that runs the 64 bit version of XP. I had no trouble finding drivers to get the thing up and running. Most of the apps I have tried to install have failed with the exception of a few.
I was bummed because the two most important apps I wanted to use were security/anti-virus stuff. Well, I did find that the 8.0I enterprise version of MCAfee will work on the 64 bit platform. I have yet to find a firewall that will work.
As far as games go I have been able to run HL2, Doom3, RTCW, and Unreal Tournament 2004 with little to no problem.