If the world’s most popular cell phone and the soon-to-be world’s most popular operating system can’t get along, what chance is there for world peace?
OK – just kidding, but it looks like there might be some compatibility issues between the two giants. Engadget reports that users are experiencing occasional errors when they try to synch iPhones with computers that are using the Intel P55 chipset.
Gizmodo reassures us that the setup has to be pretty specific to get the sync error (Intel P55 chipset running on Windows 7, usually the 64bit version) so the majority of us should be fine.
The good news is, if you are experiencing this error, Microsoft is apparently investigating a solution for it.
The iPhone blog (where we stole borrowed the awesome pic for this post) provided a work around if you are suffering from this problem:
- Use a USB port on a USB card not part of the P55
- deleting the iPodDevices.xml file from C:\Users username\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\iTunes
- disabling Bonjour
- turning on C-state capability in BIOS
Let us know if you’re one of the lucky few that is experiencing this issue, or if you have a suggestion to fix it.
-Jason
