Windows 7 Report:
My mistake , i DO have sound , spoke to soon 
I installed win 7 Ultimate too , sure is fast ,of course i haven't loaded a bunch
of crap on it yet,either ! startup and shutdown real fast too.
Hardware so far OK , all drivers loaded except 2 printers ..
The Duel Boot with Vista worked out great , no problem to Vista
so far anyway - i did back-up though -
if your still yet to load 7 don't forget to windows format your
partition using vista before you try to load the OS or it won't take 
I'm also able to post in the forum here using IE8 with win 7 in
Vista I can't post using IE FF or Opera , i have to use Chrome to post..
....... Don't forget to do Windows Updates ........ loaded a few drivers
i needed ...also it just found and loaded the drivers for the HP printer
but not the lexmark ... so all hardware working with windows drivers
that windows loaded except the one printer - that's a good thing!!
......... more to follow ...Az