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I understand that the Win7 animated boot screen needs a minimum resolution of 1024 x 768.
From Engineering Windows 7 – Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7:
“In Vista, the boot loader is using a low resolution 640×480 screen, and file size required for the green animated progress bar is very small. Furthermore, the Vista boot screen had low color depth – 16 bits per pixel (bpp). We increased this in Win7 to 32 bpp, which enabled the color richness you see in the new boot animation. Updates to the Vista boot progress indicator were achieved via the CPU, which was susceptible to I/O time, therefore causing occasional glitches in the animation. With the low resolution screen, limited color depth, and susceptibility to glitches – we knew we had our work cut out for us if we wanted to build something fancier for Win7.
We started with the Win7 boot loader using a different mechanism to display the boot animation. It gets a pointer to the frame buffer from the firmware (either BIOS or UEFI firmware), and displays a higher resolution image (1024 x 768). It animates the image while the kernel and boot critical device drivers are loaded into memory. Since the native graphics driver for the display is not loaded into memory and initialized yet, the animation is run by using the CPU, and by updating the frame buffer for the graphics display. We made an additional optimization – to have the CPU use write-combined caching to accelerate performance.”
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Just got back to the office and im so hungover
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Birthday, wedding, funeral 😕[quote1256078839=Alfihar]
However if you are getting the full version from MSDNAA which should be available now, then it will be an ISO which can be burnt to a disc or turned into a bootable memory stick.
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Correct – I downloaded Win7 Pro from the MSDNAA on 9 October, which I burnt to DVD.[quote1256027635=tonytb]
Jayne does seem to have wandered off somewhere, perhaps chasing sheep
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No she isn’t chasing sheep – although she has spent quite a lot of time in the valleys 🙂I’ve started a full-time MSc in Computer Forensics at the University of Glamorgan. Really interesting, but hard work and a bit of a culture shock – I graduated 31 years ago – so that’s why I haven’t been around much.
I agree, jeepers01, I have deleted several similar threads without bothering to send a PM. As you say – it’s not worth it.
If your NC10 was bought ‘used’ then you may not be covered by the warranty as the Samsung warranty is not transferable.
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This thread will likely hold relevance only till 24th October when Win7 will be released
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I thought it was due to be released on 22 October 😕
