I come bearing gifts...

[s0lid]

I'm going to download them from both my FTP & RS to do a file check.
They should be working fine though ( unless something was corrupted during the archiving process or the uploading process ).

Just pulled all the files with wget, i mean _all_. Didn't know that -m option downloads every effing visible file =P

O.o Why is it in Russian?!

Not like i could change it, that error window comes right after i can see the background.

I'll test again soon as i get extraction ready :P

[s0lid]

Hmm, still same issue. I'll get my Via epia out and get one psu working for it and test with it ffs :P

[s0lid]

Confirmed to work: XP, 2003 and Vista
Not: 7, doesn't work in virtual box. But i'll take my AGP benching rig out for testing

[BenchZowner]

Phew!
I have confirmation from a few users that Windows 7 work fine, so it might just be a virtual box issue.

Good to hear you got the Vista issues sorted

[radaja]

Cool, yes, that's what I was asking though dunno if I'd call it "placebo effect" but close enough to the point Just wanted to make sure it was really worth the effort to use these instead of my other OS install(s) dedicated for benching. Thanks again and to Radaja too...

Well, if that was his question the answer is definitely yes.
The cut-down modified versions have a real advantage over a normal installation, deffo not a placebo effect.

yea maybe placebo effect was the wrong wording but i didnt know the right word to get the exact point across.sorry

[WrigleyVillain]

Heh, no worries!

[Hardass]

On Vista and 7 do you need to extract every wrar file?

[BenchZowner]

No no no.
You only open or right click only one of the RARs and WinRAR automatically uses all the RARs to extract the whole ISO file.

[Hardass]

No no no.
You only open or right click only one of the RARs and WinRAR automatically uses all the RARs to extract the whole ISO file.

Good Thanks.

[Hardass]

I am getting a password error when extracting win 7, xp and vista worked fine.

[BenchZowner]

Don't copy paste the password, input it manually.

If the error window says corrupted volume ( wrong password? ) for a specific file ( e.g. W7x64x.part3 ) then you might have a corrupted download, re-download the file and try again.

[s0lid]

I didn't have any problem with copypasting password.
Btw there's usefull little downloading program called wget.exe (known from linux world).

You can basicly dl all the rar files from command prompt with this command:
wget -r -l2 -np -nc -A.rar http://www.benchzone.com/Downloads/Temp/

[Jor3lBR]

Very nice community service BenchZowner

Any chance of a non-IE integrated Vistax32? Or the one uploaded is already without Internet Explorer?

We could use a Vista x32 with IE 5.0 (fastest rendering IE ver.)

[BenchZowner]

More versions and stuff coming soon

[metalop1g]

I can not activate xp with the msdnaa key damnit I was going to bench socket478 but i'm kinda broke now.. What OS could I use?

[BrokenWall]

I didn't have any problem with copypasting password.
Btw there's usefull little downloading program called wget.exe (known from linux world).

You can basicly dl all the rar files from command prompt with this command:
wget -r -l2 -np -nc -A.rar http://www.benchzone.com/Downloads/Temp/

Or you can use DownThemAll! in Firefox and goto the folder and right click and select downthemall and select only the RAR files and hit start

[Sil3ntSnip3a]

I have 4 partitions on my 640gb WD Cav Black, one for the backup 100MB for Windows & the other 3 for the Bench OS installs. Win7 installed great with the shift+f10 trick. WV installed clean from the get go.. and I am getting a "Disk Read Error" after the install of XP was done and rebooted; I have yet to see the GRUB or the WXP load screen because of this error.

-anyone?

[Sil3ntSnip3a]

I have 4 partitions on my 640gb WD Cav Black, one for the backup 100MB for Windows & the other 3 for the Bench OS installs. Win7 installed great with the shift+f10 trick. WV installed clean from the get go.. and I am getting a "Disk Read Error" after the install of XP was done and rebooted; I have yet to see the GRUB or the WXP load screen because of this error.

-anyone?

I got this issue fixed, however I am having GRUB boot issues now. I installed WXP last :dope:!! Which means it auto boots into WXP. I forgot the location where I can delete that so I have the other options.

-enlighten me

[BenchZowner]

I wish I could but I'm no linux expert.

[Sil3ntSnip3a]

I wish I could but I'm no linux expert.

yeah... I meant just regular window loader, I couldn't remember the name at the time . Do you know how to disable auto boot on WINXP? Thats the issue I am having.

[BenchZowner]

If you have a linux distrib installed in one of those HDDs, I would use GRUB as a bootloader.
Now since Windows XP's bootloader is taking over you should try to modify the boot.ini file, but if I recall correctly the boot.ini file from Windows Vista / 7 is different than XP's and it won't work.
You should be able to create a boot.ini with BCDedit, but don't ask me for the details, I never tried that myself.

[BenchZowner]

First post updated, Windows 7 Ultimate x86 Xtreme uploaded!

[NoGuru]

Handy little tools, thanks.

[Jor3lBR]

Hey BenchZowner,

Any way to activate WiFi or network on windows 7 and vista 32?

I tried starting some services but I still can't get the internet to work.

It's handy when you need a ORB link from Futuremark...

[BenchZowner]

You cannot activate them.
The necessary files have been removed.
You need to save the results and upload them from another PC.