Something seems to be throwing off the natural, peaceful balance that should exist between the iPhone and Windows 7. Users of both products have been complaining about syncing issues on Apple’s support forums. Apparently, when the iPhone is plugged to the PC, iTunes displays an “error 0xE8000065″ message. Besides iTunes, the one thing all affected users seem to have in common is: Intel’s new P55 Express chipset.

Although, many users have successfully tried different approaches to the problem such as disabling Bonjour, or bypassing the chipset, or even deleting the iPodDevices.xml file from C:\username\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\iTunes, this is still a big issue affecting many more people who don’t know how to solve it.

Microsoft sent the following statement to The Register:

“Microsoft has not seen this particular question posed in the Microsoft Answers for Windows 7 community forum, nor in any of our call centers. We reviewed the issue raised on the Apple Discussion Board and are currently investigating. If we determine this to be a problem specific to Windows 7, we will post an update on the Microsoft Answers site.”

Apple, who is said to ship its Core i5/i7 27-inch iMacs equipped with the P55 Express chipset, has not said anything regarding the matter yet. At least when the iMacs mentioned above ship, we’ll be able to determine if Mac OS X makes a difference.

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