Well, my sys­tem isn’t ready yet. I tried and tried and tried again but there are some issues I’d like to share with you. First, there are no dri­vers avail­able for my NIC. It’s a wire­less NIC from Linksys and they sim­ply don’t offer 64-bit dri­vers. I tried to go with the chipset dri­vers instead, which are avail­able for 64-bit sys­tems. They worked half the way. I could install them and enter my set­tings. It was even pos­si­ble to estab­lish a con­nec­tion with my wire­less router but that’s it. I couldn’t access the router’s set­tings nor any of my other PCs. Not even a ping. Nothing.

Sec­ond, there’s an issue with ATI’s Cat­a­lyst dri­vers. I used 6.10 and they installed fine. They even seem to work fine unless I took a look at the event man­ager. Sud­denly, I knew why boot­ing my rig seemed to last for­ever. “L2c return failed”, the log’s telling me. I didn’t find any infor­ma­tion on it and my sys­tem became respon­sive again. Yeah, I didn’t wanted to roll back to 6.9 so I installed Win­dows XP again. Appar­ently, every­thing is work­ing fine for the moment.

I’ll report back later, if I’m able to.