Windows 7 RC on mid-2007 MBP

As a part-time Vista Bootcamp user, I was happy to have the opportunity for updating to 7. In preparation, I unpartitioned, then repartitioned, using the Boot Camp Assistant. Using the 32-bit Win 7 build 7100 (RC), I installed Windows with no issue. I then installed the Bootcamp 2.0 drivers from the Leopard disk, restarted, and installed the Bootcamp 2.1 Vista Update. Following this, I updated to Windows 7 Nvidia drivers (185.85) and everything works fantastic except for two things:
1. Sleep - when you click Sleep/Standby or close the lid, the computer's CD drive makes a noise (like waking from sleep), then the screen goes black, but the computer will never actually go to sleep. Moving the touchpad brings the computer back (since it really only turned off the display).
Note: Hibernate works perfectly. Only Standby/Sleep is affected (though not in Leopard).
2. Bluetooth - I'm not alone with this issue, but any fixes posted did not work for me. Bluetooth works, but will not actually let me use my Logitech Bluetooth Laser Mouse. It pairs, then suddenly disappears from the list (mouse continues in Discoverable mode). Any future attempts to pair without resetting the mouse results in an authentication error on Windows.
These are pretty significant issues, and I realize it is a beta (well, a Release Candidate), so issues are expected, but no one else has mentioned sleep failing, and only a few claim Bluetooth problems, so I feel both can be resolved through some means.

I'm not sure exactly what made the mouse finally work, but I made sure to leave the mouse turned on when restarting from Leopard to 7. Then, when I attempted to pair the mouse in Windows, it connected properly. Immediately, I went to the services section of the hardware device (I don't have the exact menu structure on hand for that, but I think you could get to it from the Devices and Printers screen) and set the detected mouse to HID (Human Interface Device) by going into its properties; I think it was a check box.
There were no drivers to install or change. Windows simply finally recognized the mouse and kept it connected.
Since then, it's worked when I turn it on. Hope this helps.

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Moderators: please leave this open until it is actually resolved.
Earlier posts:
Panajev
Posts: 4
From: ITALY
Registered: Oct 14, 2009
Windows 7 x64, MacBook Pro, frequent CHKDSK after HDD firmware update
Posted: Nov 2, 2009 6:45 AM
Hello, I have been having filesystem problems on my Windows 7 partition since the HDD related firmware update (the latest Performance update) was released and installed onto this mid 2009 MacBook Pro.
The HDD is a 500 GB 7200 RPM model, but it never gave me any troubles under OS X before the "fix" and I know other users had intermittent problems with the HDD on their MacBook Pro's related to the HDD making noises and pausing.
The fix was released, I installed it and I started seeing my first problem in Windows 7 x64 a few days after... I cleanly shut the OS down, but when I booted it back it asked me to perform a coherency check to the Filesystem... I thought that the problem was related to the fact that I was using the RC1 build of Windows 7... although that problem never manifested itself in the weeks before the Performance Update (HDD firmware fix) was installed and Windows 7 x64 RC1 had been on there and used frequently.
I recently purchased Windows 7 retail a few days ago and after a bit of trouble-free operation I started having problems again... always shutting the PC down carefully and I was asked to run the CHKDSK utility at boot twice already.
What to do?
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MacBook Pro (2009) Mac OS X (10.6.1) Windows 7 x64, Bootcamp 3.0, recent HDD update
nicegom
Posts: 6
Registered: Nov 12, 2009
Re: Windows 7 x64, MacBook Pro, frequent CHKDSK after HDD firmware update
Posted: Nov 12, 2009 1:40 AM in response to: Panajev
Hi there,
I have a different experience. I installed Windows 7 before the "performance update 1.0" came out. I actually experienced the chkdsk launch problem with Windows 7. I had done repartitioning and clean-install several times but cannot solve the problem. So I tried to install XP and Vista on my MBA (Mid 2009 with SSD) and found that these two OS doesn't introduce such problem.
To be honest, I'm not sure which caused such problem, Windows 7, a bootcamp driver, or EFI. But I'm sure that CHKDSK in Windows 7 has an obvious bug that needs to be patched (memory leak and maybe this problem as well). So now I'm using Windows Vista SP2. And I'm happy with Vista SP2 (seems to become faster and stable now).
Cheer,
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Just doublechecking. Does that include the recent chkdsk hotfixes?
[The Chkdsk.exe program does not start correctly on a Windows 7-based computer|http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975778]

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Password:
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APM: not present
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Howdy
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I'm running Lion if that helps.
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SyncTwoFolders
Synk Pro
Synk Standard
Tri-Backup
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