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VIRTUALISATION Loading Windows 7 beta 1 on the Dell Mini 9 netbook - take note!
VIRTUALISATION Loading Windows 7 beta 1 on the Dell Mini 9 netbook - take note! | Loading Windows 7 beta 1 on the Dell Mini 9 netbook - take note! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 10 January 2009 | |
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Personally, I can say that it does – Windows 7 even works nicely on old Pentium IV computers with but 512MB of RAM. Sure, it’s a little slow, and 1GB would be better (and faster), but it runs, and a friend with that configuration that I’ve upgraded to Windows 7 (from an XP installation) is as happy as Larry. Most Dell Mini 9’s come equipped with 1GB of RAM as standard, so this shouldn’t be an issue, but I did have one particular problem when I tried loading the new Windows 7 beta 1 onto a Dell Mini 9 I’ve been testing for a while. The problem was surprising in that it didn’t appear when previously installing the 6801 or 6956 beta versions, and I only discovered the problem when trying to get the 7000 build loaded. What was the problem? An ACPI “blue screen of death” that stopped the Windows 7 installation sequence from starting up. What I’d done was to copy across the extracted contents of the Windows 7 beta 1 .ISO file onto a 4GB USB stick. I’d ensure the USB stick was made an active partition first, copied across Windows 7 and rebooted the computer. When I saw the “Dell” boot screen, I press the zero key on the keyboard to select which device I wanted to boot from, be it the internal SSD, a USB device or other things. I chose the USB stick and the “Windows is loading files” screen popped up, after which I should have been taken to the standard Windows 7 installation screen, but before that happened, the ACPI. SYS Blue-screen popped up instead. After doing some Googling, I discovered the problem – and how to fix it. Please read on to page 2 for details! |
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