Downloaded Rc7 on 28 Aug, after two unsuccessful installs (because of operator errors) third try went very well. Install was with modern hardware in safe mode, acip wizard scaned the hardware and came up with the following suggested switches /smp /apic, which I put in and rebooted to a stable two processor configuration. The only serious problem I have found is no sound. On this computer, I had partial sound in rc6a very breifly using Paul Smedleys uniaud v 1.9.2. I have tried many of Paul's uniaud versions with no success.
I have found what appears to be an anomaly in irq assignment for sound system
Rc6a and rc7 in boot process reports hda nvidia,assigned irq 10
mixer detected--conexant cx20549 (venice)
rc6a rmview
irq level=10 pci pin=none flg=shared hda nvidia
irq level=10 pci pin=B flg=shared ehci complaint usb host controller
Rc7 rmview
irq level=21 pci pin=A flg=shared hda nvidia
no other line for irq 21 being shared with ???
Other than the sound problem, I like rc7 very much and find it considerably more stable than rc6a overall
Any thoughts or suggestions would be most welcome and appreciated
Regards
Phil