Windows 7 CarPC, Reviewing, testing and breaking!

**monzablue16v** · 05-11-2009, 05:58 PM

Hi guys just building a car pc on an Intel atom dual core board. 1Gb memory, 120GB sata laptop hdd, M4 ATX.
I though it would be interesting to see how Windows 7 runs and also how good some of the new tweaks and changes work.
I also thought it would be amusing to try and get it running as a full carpc system and see what does and doesn't work on it. I'm not live in a car at the moment so it is an ideal time to test the theory out

So I am listing up what works and doesn't and will do some benchmarks for speed tests.

Anything you want testing shout up with a link and I'll try and get it running

Working 100%

Windows
Installed Win 7 Ultimate N X86 RC0. no IE etc.
Windows Boots. need to time hibernate and standby, cold boot.
All devices detected in device manager.
nice and snappy not as much "vista lag"
Nice advanced power options
soundcard is HD audio
GFX detected correctly
Showing as 4 core 1.60GHz system
Ride runner installs 100% with no errors
Winamp 5.13 installs and plays audio 100%
RRconfig triggers UAC and loads.

Under investigation

Sound card issues with onboard sound.
RideRunner is alive and kicking with sound through RDP, had to install windows and IE versions of flash. Now testing that.

Kind of works

Works with tweaks

Works in Windows XP mode

Doesn't work at all, even a little bit

Speedtests

Graphics

CPU

Memory

I will keep this top post updated as I go through the tests.
Anything you want testing shout up with a link and I'll try and get it running

**Jitters333** · 05-11-2009, 06:21 PM

I'm not live in a car at the moment so it is an ideal time to test the theory out?
huh?
and yeah I agree win 7 ftw its been built around touch screens, been using if since it first hit bit (january was it?), zero complaints boots faster that my xp partition..

**monzablue16v** · 05-11-2009, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by Jitters333

I'm not live in a car at the moment so it is an ideal time to test the theory out?
huh?
and yeah I agree win 7 ftw its been built around touch screens, been using if since it first hit bit (january was it?), zero complaints boots faster that my xp partition..

I am running it on a test bench at the moment to see what does and doesn't work, then once/if I have it something like I will put it in the car and test it on the move.
There are a lot of touch enhancements so will see what they do for the usability

**Jitters333** · 05-11-2009, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by monzablue16v

I am running it on a test bench at the moment to see what does and doesn't work, then once/if I have it something like I will put it in the car and test it on the move.
There are a lot of touch enhancements so will see what they do for the usability

testing it with what? I've found it will support pretty much everything that i've thrown at it, as long as its Vista compatible Except Deamon tools =/ but I believe there coming out with a win 7 version for it soon if its not already out

**WuNgUn** · 05-11-2009, 06:36 PM

When I tried it, in installed my onboard Realtek as 'HD Audio' as well, except it's 2-channel, with a mic and digital 'in', and that's it! I couldn't get the OEM drivers to work...
So I scrapped the W7 install.

**monzablue16v** · 05-11-2009, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by WuNgUn

When I tried it, in installed my onboard Realtek as 'HD Audio' as well, except it's 2-channel, with a mic and digital 'in', and that's it! I couldn't get the OEM drivers to work...
So I scrapped the W7 install.

So did you not get any sound at all from it?

**Jitters333** · 05-11-2009, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by WuNgUn

When I tried it, in installed my onboard Realtek as 'HD Audio' as well, except it's 2-channel, with a mic and digital 'in', and that's it! I couldn't get the OEM drivers to work...
So I scrapped the W7 install.

What build did you use? that could be your problem.. once you get above 7077 a lot of issues like that started popping up

**monzablue16v** · 05-11-2009, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by Jitters333

testing it with what? I've found it will support pretty much everything that i've thrown at it, as long as its Vista compatible Except Deamon tools =/ but I believe there coming out with a win 7 version for it soon if its not already out

So have you run carpc software on it or used it as a normal OS?