Windows 7 Headache
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  1. #1
    Tech Convert
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    Hey all...this is more an opportunity to vent my rage so bare with me..

    Just received my shiny new Dell 1557 i7 laptop with Windows 7 64bit Professional installed, 6gb RAM. Super quick in OS, screen is 15.6" 1080p and looks niiiiiiiice. Blu Ray recorder too. Basically a very nice laptop.

    Problem 1:
    Behringer. NO 64 bit driver support for my lil' BCD 3000.
    Tried various versions of drivers, compatibility modes etc but nope, even Behringer themselves say DON'T BOTHER! Almost funny, but mostly annoying as I really need to get a working system for my next set on Wednesday. Argh.

    Problem 2:
    M-Audio Ozone. This time, drivers are available. Great!
    Oh. Wait. Not so great. Vista 64bit drivers install..then don't support MIDI in or out. Search a bit more...aha..Windows 7, 64bit drivers! Download-install-fail. Thanks. No dice :/ Double argh.
    (this is for my Record/Reason install..not technically DJing related but a major use for my laptop)

    Solution 1:
    Slightly long winded but I get to keep my nice laptop:
    Dual boot Windows 7 32bit which means loosing access to 2Gb of RAM & a fair bit of faff.

    Solution 2:
    Rather drastic but would be SO much simpler.
    Return Dell under their "£20 to return in under 7 days deal" and buy a Apple Mac Book Pro 17".
    Everything works under Macs', right???

    Any suggestions or similar tales of woe out there?
    Traktor Pro - Behringer BCD3000 - Akai LPD8

  2. #2
    Tech Wizard
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    You should dual boot and install leopard on another partition. When my macbook pro was down, I took my brothers asus laptop installed leopard... and the BCD sound card and traktor pro worked flawlessly. (you just need to buy a copy of mac osx and look up how to dual boot).

    I don't blame windows for the BCD not working, behringer has always had shit drivers for it and back in the day when I used XP i could never get the damn thing working properly.(if it didn't blue screen, it would just stop playback after 10 seconds or so)

    I found using the mac osx was the only solution for using my bcd with the included sound card.

    If you do the dual boot on your laptop you will have a fast machine with mac osx for waaaaay cheaper than apple will sell a similar machine for. (dual booting mac osx is not a new concept this has been done for quite some time so there should be plenty of resources out the and its a lot easier nowadays).

    Good luck! Sounds like a sweet laptop!
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  3. #3
    Tech Convert
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    Thanks for the reply, it's given some hope where there was none!
    Been digging around the Hackintosh sites but no one has approached i7 laptops as far as I can tell.
    For simplicitys sake I'm going to try a dual boot of Win7 32 bit, I'll report back with my findings...
    Traktor Pro - Behringer BCD3000 - Akai LPD8

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