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F5D8051 USB Wireless N Adapter – Windows 7 x64

Chris — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:12:33 +0000

Nightmare.

Wireless N adapters never seem to work with Windows 7 x64. I have now, however gotten my F5D8051 to work so I thought I’d post a quick guide.

1. Download the drivers from here for the Ralink chipset

2. Install the package

3. Update the driver for your Belkin N1 adapter to the driver

4. Click ‘Let me pick from a list of device drivers…’

5. Untick ‘Show compatible hardware’

6. Select ‘Ralink Technology, Corp.’ (if there are two, pick the second)

7. Select ’802.11n USB Wireless Card’.

8. Install the driver and watch your network stop dropping out!!!

Good luck! When in doubt; get the chipset manufacturers driver!

Chris

Dissertation Done!

Chris — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:42:07 +0000

I have now finished my dissertation! (Some sort of) Freedom is mine! Exams to go yet, but it certainly frees up a lot of time… I have used a little bit of this to start designing the look-and-feel and content management system for one of the sites I want to make; this one is sort of a throw-away, I’ve had about 500 email responses about it so I want to get it up and let the community run it. www.theme7.net

It’s going to host Windows 7 integrated theme packs; a feature in Windows 7 that I really like!

It’s very early stages now, but over the coming days and weeks it should approach completion so… bookmark it!

Thanks a lot; I’ve got a lot of iPhone dev stuff going on as well, I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has experience in developping iPhone applications.

Speak soon,

Chris

Windows 7 7106 – Code base branching

Chris — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:08:20 +0000

Windows 7 Build 7106 leaked earlier this week and there was a huge amount of excitement around the forums because of the obvious large gap between 7077 and 7106; seems like a lot of builds!

The truth is, they’ve just branched the code base this week; checking out build 7076, and relabelling it as 7106, ready to work on towards the RTM build, while 7076, 7077 onwards, will be polished to ultimately be released as the RC (probably at build 7100?).

So.. 7106 is actually 1 day older than 7077. Anyone thinking about rushing out and sourcing a chinese iso and a language pack can probably hold out for either the RC or a later RTM branch build; possibly with some of these exciting new surprises??

Chris

Windows 7 Installation Scenarios – Macbook Air & Desktop x64

Chris — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:23:58 +0000

Okay, so the Windows 7 Beta is out and it’s good. Great in fact! So I figured that I would migrate all of my systems to use Windows 7; and document the process while I’m at it!

So in the next couple days I’ll be publishing a quick guide and outlining my thoughts on installing Windows 7 on:

- Macbook Air – 32 bit build through BootCamp.

- Desktop – 64 bit build on a system designed as a Media PC

- Workstation – 64 bit build on a top end workstation machine. :)

All systems are up and running in good order, but occasionally the process wasn’t obvious.

Stay tuned….

Chris

Windows 7 6801 x64 + iTunes + iPhone

Chris — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:11:16 +0000

Chris123NT has posted a wonderful guide that proves exactly what I thought would be the case but didn’t get round to trying for lack of an x64 install of Vista on any machine, oh, and time!

In order to install iTunes and the iPhone on x64 Windows 7 you need merely get source the Apple Mobile Device Center files from a Vista x64 install, copy them over and then run a registry script (i.e. the install that fails).

Head over here for the full guide; the files are now available in a rar file in one of the comments so just scroll down and save yourself an x64 Vista install.

That’s now all applications / hardware working fully on Windows 7 6801. Hang on for a production-system review soon!

Chris