Will this cause a problem with drivers? If so, how do I correct? I can't seem to get installation to recognize nor install the correct drivers for my printer although it worked fine in W7RC.Anyway to uninstall the printerdrivers? All I get now is unknwon device error.

Hai,Definitely a driver related issue. Check for latest update of the driver on the manufacturers website.regards from www.windowsadmin.infoManuPhilip

Thank you, I have done that with HP drivers for W7. No cure available.How about the "architecture" reporting error? Does that have an effect on how driver's are installed?

Hi, Before going any further, I would like to confirm the following information: 1. Where you find out the architecture reporting problem? 2. What printer driver cannot install and what error is received? To reinstall printer drivers, you can perform the following steps: First, remove printer from the "Device and Printers", then type APPWIZ.CPL in the Start Search and press Enter. Remove the printer software. If it cannot be removed, try the following steps: Clean up driver information from the Registry: ========================================= Before we go any further, please first backup the Registry. 1. Click Start, type REGEDIT in the Start Search bar and press Enter. 2. Select Computer (the root node) in the left pane, click Export under the File menu, choose All under Export range, select Desktop in the Save in box and type backup in File Name. click Save. Please Note: The backup file is on the Desktop and named backup.reg. We can simply restore the registry by double-clicking the backup.reg file. 3. Click "Start", type in "regedit" in Search bar and press "Enter". 4. Browse to the following registry key by clicking the PLUS (+) sign: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers 5. Click the PLUS (+) sign to expand Printers key. All current printers installed on your computer are listed there. Please right click the subkey of the problematic printer in it on the left pane and click "Delete". 6. Browse to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\Version-3 7. Click the PLUS (+) sign to expand "Version-3". All printer drivers which have been installed on your computer will be listed there. Please right click the subkey of the problematic printer in it on the left pane and click "Delete". 8. Close Registry Editor. Clear up driver information in Safe Mode ==================================== 1. Restart your computer in Safe Mode. To do so, restart the computer; Keep press F8 key until the Windows Startup menu appears; choose "Safe Mode", and press "Enter". Note: In Safe Mode, your system display and Desktop will look and perform differently than in Normal Mode. This is only temporary. 2. Click the Start button -> Computer and browse to the folder C:\WINDOWS\System32\Spool\Drivers\w32x86\3, delete all the files in the folder. 3. Restart your computer in Normal Mode. 4. Please reinstall and add the printers then check if the issue persists. If the issue persists, you can collect Screenshot of the error and upload it to the http://skydrive.live.com/ using your Live ID and I will check it: Screenshot ======== 1. If the error message appears, press the Print Screen key (PrtScn) on your keyboard. 2. Click the "Start" menu, type "mspaint" in the Search Bar and Press Enter. 3. In the Paint program, click the "Edit" menu, click "Paste", click the "File" menu, and click "Save". 4. The "Save As" dialogue box will appear. Type a file name in the "File name:" box, for example: "screenshot". 5. Make sure "JPEG (*.JPG;*.JPEG;*.JPE;*.JFIF)" is selected in the "Save as type" box, click Desktop on the left pane and then click "Save".Vivian Xing - MSFT

Hi, Before going any further, I would like to confirm the following information: 1. Where you find out the architecture reporting problem? 2. What printer driver cannot install and what error is received? To reinstall printer drivers, you can perform the following steps: First, remove printer from the "Device and Printers", then type APPWIZ.CPL in the Start Search and press Enter. Remove the printer software. If it cannot be removed, try the following steps: Clean up driver information from the Registry: ========================================= Before we go any further, please first backup the Registry. 1. Click Start, type REGEDIT in the Start Search bar and press Enter. 2. Select Computer (the root node) in the left pane, click Export under the File menu, choose All under Export range, select Desktop in the Save in box and type backup in File Name. click Save. Please Note: The backup file is on the Desktop and named backup.reg. We can simply restore the registry by double-clicking the backup.reg file. 3. Click "Start", type in "regedit" in Search bar and press "Enter". 4. Browse to the following registry key by clicking the PLUS (+) sign: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers 5. Click the PLUS (+) sign to expand Printers key. All current printers installed on your computer are listed there. Please right click the subkey of the problematic printer in it on the left pane and click "Delete". 6. Browse to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\Version-3 7. Click the PLUS (+) sign to expand "Version-3". All printer drivers which have been installed on your computer will be listed there. Please right click the subkey of the problematic printer in it on the left pane and click "Delete". 8. Close Registry Editor. Clear up driver information in Safe Mode ==================================== 1. Restart your computer in Safe Mode. To do so, restart the computer; Keep press F8 key until the Windows Startup menu appears; choose "Safe Mode", and press "Enter". Note: In Safe Mode, your system display and Desktop will look and perform differently than in Normal Mode. This is only temporary. 2. Click the Start button -> Computer and browse to the folder C:\WINDOWS\System32\Spool\Drivers\w32x86\3, delete all the files in the folder. 3. Restart your computer in Normal Mode. 4. Please reinstall and add the printers then check if the issue persists. If the issue persists, you can collect Screenshot of the error and upload it to the http://skydrive.live.com/ using your Live ID and I will check it: Screenshot ======== 1. If the error message appears, press the Print Screen key (PrtScn) on your keyboard. 2. Click the "Start" menu, type "mspaint" in the Search Bar and Press Enter. 3. In the Paint program, click the "Edit" menu, click "Paste", click the "File" menu, and click "Save". 4. The "Save As" dialogue box will appear. Type a file name in the "File name:" box, for example: "screenshot". 5. Make sure "JPEG (*.JPG;*.JPEG;*.JPE;*.JFIF)" is selected in the "Save as type" box, click Desktop on the left pane and then click "Save". Vivian Xing - MSFT Vivian,1. In the W7 error summary2. The recommended HP HP Universal Printing PCL 6 (v5.0). Actually it installs, but it has no hardware for it.When I loaded W7 RC, it installed a universal driver for the HP CLJ 4500n that worked. When I upgraded to W7 Ulitimate, it did not.Now I get two unkown devices on my USB hub with a Code (43).One troubleshooter had me download a Marvell 63xx driver that was incompatible with W7.Your steps were most thorough and I appreciate your time and insight. I followed them, but still cannot get traction on why unknown devices appear where before my printer was recognized and drivers installed by default.I will look at this again later.Thank you.

Hi, Code 43 indicates that Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. You can try installing the driver in compatible mode: 1. Right click on the installation file (setup.exe) and click Properties. 2. Click on the Compatibility tab. 3. Select Run this program in compatibility mode for. 4. Choose Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) from the drop down list. 5. Select Run this program as an administrator option under the Privilege Level topic. 6. Click Apply, click OK. Right click on the setup file and choose Run as administrator to install it again. If the issue persists, do not forget collecting the screenshot of the errors.Vivian Xing - MSFT

Here are the screens. There are two devices, one of which seems to be my HP Printer as it doesn't print and the other is Wireless Logitech MX1100 for which the drivers are also loaded.Hmmm.....no way to load screen shots? Thank you, Andre!

Hmmm.....no way to load screen shots? Follow this guide to upload pictures: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/4fc10639-02db-4665-993a-08d865088d65 André"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

Thanks, Andre. Images updated.Prreviuosly, with W7 RC, the drivers instlled perfectly, but those drivers don't seem to be available in the final release.

Hi, amd64 is ok, because AMD first introduced the mainstream 64Bit CPUs (AMD Opteron) and MS didn't want to code a new 64Bit Windows for Intel CPUs. Could you please check details tab, which device IDs do you see? With the IDs we can see which device it is. André"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

Andre, not much help there.Brian

Have you tried reinstalling your motherboard driver?

Hi Brian, please select "hardware-IDs" from the combobox and post the data here. André"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

Not very illuminating, I am afraid. No idea where "motherbaord driver " would be and W7 was not included in operating systems when Asus PT6 Revolution was released.

No hardware ID means the device has failed.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe RaidMax Smilodon, 680W, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM AMD X2 4200+, 2GB DDR2-800, x600, more details on my site, need a video card for the Windows machine, the 8600 GT fried

That would mean about 3 different devices have failed then as not only my printer, but also my mouse BT, and my phone are unrecognized.All were recognixed in W7 RC.

Unfortunately a lot of machines are not well suited to Windows 7. If you cannot find drivers for your peripherals you can try legacy drivers, but they tend to not work all the time. Users of the 32-bit version of Windows 7 have had better experiences with old drivers than with the 64-bit edition. Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe RaidMax Smilodon, 680W, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM, AMD X2 4200+, 2GB DDR2-800, HD2400 Pro, more details on my site, need a new boot disk, existing one is 5 years old

Ah, but all of these devices worked with W7 RC x64

The AMD64 architecture is licensed by Intel and was known as EMT64. Today its generally known as x64 for want of a generic name for the CPU. Ignore the architecture, use the CPUID data to intefy the actually CPU you have. You can get the CPU information from the system, press the Windowos ket + pause/break Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe Need a some parts finish the new server, see the site for remaining items needed

Yes, I know how to identify system properties. Just couldn't understand why AMD was used when there isn't an AMD cmponent other than the ATI graphics card on this system.

As already told to you, AMD64 was the internal codename for the x64 Version of Windows, because AMD was first with creating a x64 desktop CPU."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/