“Microsoft has been a bit lax in communicating with beta testers of its Windows 7 operating system who have reported problems or bugs to the company” – According to a gadget blog site. Hey try answering to each comment on your single post as a starter to feel how it would be.

I think there are more than one issue here. When I shutdown it goes in to some state where not all components are shutdown. This is a desktop setup. At least one fan is rotating in some component after the windows is shutdown and it does not respond to power button. It responds to the reset key. The keyboard or mouse actions are not recognized. Here is probably the problem. Windows 7 does not recognize my wireless keyboard in the sleep or whatever mode that is. 

I tried hibernate today and it works fine. It is just very slow. I can get the computer going from cold boot faster than hibernate.  May be that is why they came up with hybrid state. Or not. Whatever. The cold boot is fast and good enough for me on the desktop. Other modes will be very usefull on laptops and other devices with battery and all integrated setup. 

Now about my keyboard. It is an IBM keyboard. It is wireless, RF, and old style layout. 89P8730. I don’t use the mouse that came with it. I use Microsoft wireless laser mouse 6000. Windows 7 recognizes the mouse when coming back to life from hibernate but not the keyboard. May be it is not powering the USB dongle that talks to the keyboard. It works on 2.4 GHz frequency I think. 

So as a workaround, I select restart and then when it comes to BIOS post, I press the power button to shutdown the computer. That works. I also used MSCONFIG to make Vista as the default selection in the boot menu for the sake of other users.

Resolved: See the comments for resolution.

This is weird. Definitely something to do with my system and the ACPI driver. When I shutdown Windows 7, it goes down and I can hear pretty much everything turning off. But some fan keeps running. When I clicked the power button, nothing happens and then when I press the reset button, the system starts. In my BIOS I have enabled ACPI 2.0 and have set some settings for the fan. Windows is not able to detect those settings I guess.

Here is what I sent using feedback tool.

When I press shutdown, the system doesn’t go down fully. Hard drive, monitor etc are off but I can hear one fan running loud. If I press the power button, nothing seems to be happening (wait for few hours before pressing the power button. In my case the system was in that state over night.) but when I press the reset button, system starts or restarts.

My PC uses ASUS motherboard P5B-E and BIOS version 1802. I have enabled ACPI 2.0 and have set CPU and motherboard fans to silent mode. I don’t think I have a fan controller connection to the power supply.

Update: Disabling Hybrid Sleep and all other power management stuff didn’t help. What is system cooling policy?

Resolution for M-Audio audiophile Delta 249 conflict.

Similar to the issue discussed in this article but an add-on card.

Ok, now the installation allows me to send feedback. Here is my first feedback.

Problem 1:
This may be an existing problem from older versions.
1. Start the installation.
2. When the install asks for location to install, choose load driver.
3. Browse to some location where there are no drivers and click ok.
Once it come back with a message saying no drivers found, all other drives also disappears from the list.

Problem 2:
I have 3 SATA 2 hard drives on my system. One of them would not appear during installation even though BIOS shows it. There is no need for a driver for this drive. As soon as installation is over and booted in to OS, the drive is visible with all of it’s content. It is a western digital drive.

Problem 3:
The drive with master boot record is not visible after booting. This drive again is a SATA 2 drive and should not require a driver. This is where my main Vista installation is and was installed without a driver.

I downloaded the Windows 7 images from MSDN and installed it with keys from public beta. I think there is a difference between these builds. The MSDN build is not allowing me to send feedback for some reason. I am going to reinstall using the image from public beta to see if that makes a difference. 

Here are some of my observations.

Installation: In the first attempt, one of my hard drives did not appear in the list. It is visible from vista. No drivers are needed for that drive because it is just a standard Western Digital SATA II drive. That is where I wanted to install it. Then there was a crashed hard drive on a Linux server. It is an ATA 133 drive and I had no more IDE slots. I got a SIIG PCI IDE card and use it to connect that one. Without a driver that one won’t appear on the hard drive list. After installing the hard drive, I started up the install and when the hard drive list appeared, it did not show the ATA drive attached to SIIG card. I clicked on the have disk button and the clicked cancel. All other drives disappeared from the list even though I did not do anything other than cancel. I think this is a bug being carried over from at least Windows XP. I think I selected the 64 bit driver for Vista and it showed the drive. After that install was like the Vista installation. I think the location where the key is asked has been moved to a later stage. I like the key being asked up front. 

Hardware Setup: Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition, 3GB RAM, an old Maxtor ATA 133 HDD 120 GB, ATI Radeon 850 PRO. 

Windows Disk Image Burn: I could not burn the Windows 7 ISO using the Windows 7 Disk Image Burn utility. First it tried to erase the disk and then failed. This is the same drive and disk from where I burned the Windows 7 image using imgburn. Imgburn installed without a problem on Windows 7 and it also burned the image to the same disk in the same drive without any problem. So, the disk image burn is probably not feature complete. The drive is a PIONEER DVD writer 111L as displayed by imgburn.  The Windows tool did not tell me the make of the drive. 

Now that I have burned the Windows 7 64 bit DVD using imgburn from Windows 7 itself, I will go back and reinstall it on the same drive. This is how my desktop looks before the reinstall.

Here is one bug I noticed. This happens everytime I tried to upload a picture to twitpic for the first time in a session. It worked the second time around. 

I use Avast Antivirus. It works without any problem on Windows 7 even though it is not listed in the Windows Suggested providers. I have no comments on the providers listed When I was trying to install Avast, I saw the new security prompt which is pretty good. 

I completed the verification that there are no useful files I saved on the Windows 7 partition. Now to the re-install.

Your best laid plans can be scuttled by the person(s) who is(are) supposed to deliver it. 

If I am in charge, heads will roll if every major event of my organization is fucked up by infrastructure. It is an insult to thousands of people who worked hard to get it there. 

In the last one year+ almost every event where Microsoft should have expected more people trying to access their web sites and servers, they failed without a fail. 

Xbox live failed at every major event. Game releases, holidays and so on. 

MSN live failed when they announced …

Are they trying to pull a Nintendo? Hope not. I don’t have a Wii.