September 2005 - Posts

Cakewalk Releases Sonar 5 on x64

Published 27 September 5 10:4 PM | Charlie Russel

Version 5 of Cakewalk’s SONAR audio processing and mixing software will shortly be available from music retailers and registered users can order their upgrade direct from Cakewalk now. Why should we care in the x64 world? Well, this whitepaper on...

Wireless USB Adapters in x64

Published 27 September 5 9:2 PM | Charlie Russel

A reliable report on the Windows 64 Bit Newsgroup has the Linksys WUSB54G adapter, version 4, working in x64 Edition. This version of the adapter uses the Ralink chipset and Ralink has been very good about drivers. Also listed in the .INF file for that...

NVidia RAID and SATA

Published 25 September 5 8:7 AM | Charlie Russel

Many users on the Windows 64–bit newsgroup have reported problems with getting Windows XP Professional x64 Edition to boot from the latest NVidia drivers. (Why am I not surprised? NVidia has been a nightmare for x64 Edition users!) Recently, a user...

New Beta: Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Solution

Published 19 September 5 3:25 PM | Charlie Russel

At PDC last week, Microsoft released the first beta of their new entry in the High Performance Computing arena – Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Solution . Running only on x64 architecture computers, this solution combines a special edition...

No MCE, but TiVo works in x64 Edition

Published 18 September 5 11:8 PM | Charlie Russel

Well, I may not be able to run my Media Center Edition in x64 yet, but it turns out that the latest release of Tivo software(TiVo Desktop 2.2) works just fine on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, and I can happily play shows I’ve recorded on...

Dell Drops Itanium

Published 16 September 5 10:13 AM | Charlie Russel

It looks like Dell is dropping their Itanium line of servers. According to a CNet Article , Dell is transitioning their Itanium server line to Xeon EM64T (x64) based servers. Dell was never a big seller of Itanium servers, but this can’t be good...

New AC97 Drivers

Published 8 September 5 7:25 AM | Charlie Russel

Realtek has released new drivers for the AC97 chipset that is on many 64 bit motherboards. http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/dlac97-2.aspx?lineid=5&famid=12&series=8&Software=True There are both a released version and a beta version available...

Shutdown Hangs in x64 Edition

Published 6 September 5 10:21 PM | Charlie Russel

Many users on the public 64bit Windows newsgroup , and on the forums at PlanetAMD64.com are reporting problems with Windows XP Professional x64 Edition not shutting down properly. The reports say that it gets to the all blue screen and just hangs. Only...

Transfering Files and Settings to your new x64 computer

Published 2 September 5 11:23 PM | Charlie Russel

Unfortunately, you can’t transfer the files that are on your existing computer that is running a 32–bit version of Windows XP by using the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard (FSTW) that came with either your 32–bit Windows XP or the new Windows XP Professional...

Testing Memory

Published 1 September 5 9:8 AM | Charlie Russel

We’ve seen a number of issues with apparent RAM problems on the 64bit newsgroup and these can be frustrating and difficult to troubleshoot, as I know all too well from my own experiences. There are two utilities that I know about that do thorough...

Epson and x64 Edition

Published 1 September 5 7:7 AM | Charlie Russel

Thanks to mirko, on the 64bit newsgroup , I’ve found a really useful page that lists the current status of drivers for Epson products. You won’t easily find this on the US site, by the way. The page is Epson KB050135EN . I don’t have...