so the winxp ati video card drivers works fine w/ vista?
is there media center in the vista? if so can you watch tv just like you could on winxp media center?
is there an expiration on it? if so any cracks?
will there be updates availble throughout the year for this or you have to fetch the latest build yourself everytime?
if anyone can answer these questions, mucho thanks!
=)
is there media center in the vista? if so can you watch tv just like you could on winxp media center?
is there an expiration on it? if so any cracks?
will there be updates availble throughout the year for this or you have to fetch the latest build yourself everytime?
if anyone can answer these questions, mucho thanks!
=)
Nice, I just got a WD4000YR RE2 for storage....
I'll have to throw this on it when my external drive case arrives!
I'll have to throw this on it when my external drive case arrives!
I'm out of the loop when it comes to Vista. Besides bells and whistles, can someone tell me beneficially what Vista provides that XP does not?
Would you PLEASE STFU. We get it, you don't like Windows. Now let the people who are here to help eachother engage in decent conversation, without your stupidity intervening. :roll:
Not much at this point. MS is slowly but surely removing all of the more revolutionary features that were to be included in it.
Trader05
Diamond Member
- Mar 1, 2000
- 5,096
- 20
- 81
Well my opinion, i ran the last beta on my desktop that i had. Ran pretty good on that, just the lack of drivers. This version i ran on my current laptop E1505, upgraded from MCE and it was not a happy turnout. CPU usage was way high on Explorer until i end tasked it and re-ran it. Some other things didn't run too great. I think im going to have to clean install, i usually never upgrade, but thank god for Imaging programs! I'm probably gonna do the clean install tonight
:: Also what IM program works with this version of Vista?!?! ::
:: Also what IM program works with this version of Vista?!?! ::
How can I set it up so it defaults to XP during bootup and counts down for 5 seconds or so? It wont let me pick under vista (doesnt even list XP) and XP doesn't have it under msconfig..
I can't get the 64 bit version to work. It gets to the setup screen and just sits there, then I get a "setup.exe is corrupt" error...32 bit works great...
anyone having issues with the newest nvidia drivers? its a bit choppy with my 6800GT with the newest nvidia drivers. its perfectly fine with my radeon x800 which has less ram and is slower.
Originally posted by: Number1
Originally posted by: Linux23
I must say that this is the most useless version of Windows yet.
The thing is a pig. There should be no reason any OS should consume 800MB of system memory out of the box.
I pray and hope that Microsoft falls flat on their face in their effort to create the most bloated OS in existance.
Your credibility as a windows critic is rather dubious considering your name.
Go back to your linux crap and STFU.
Yes and it's people like him who give us users of unix-like OS's a bad name, too. For many of us, yes, Linux sucks, but for what we use our computers for, it sucks the least. I recall drag writing a pretty good article on this. So please don't call it all crap b/c it has been given a bad name by certain users.
Edit: Thanks for the torrent, using it now!
Installed last night to a spare drive..
Needed driver for Highpoint ATA100 PCI card that I run the drive off of that I wanted to install it to.. I grabbed the latest XP/2003 driver from the MFG site - worked great. Dual boot is working well too.
Install went well, took longer than I expected.
Upon initial boot, it prompted me to arrange my displays - worked flawlessly.
The only items it didn't have stock drivers for was my SB Live! 24bit, my Leadtek Winfast TV2000 tuner card, and some other unknown device that I haven't figured out yet. Creative has a beta Vista driver for that card on their site - initial install attempt took waaaay too long and didn't work. Rebooted, tried again, driver worked great.
Triend to install the latest Winfast drivers - with SOME success, it installed, and then installed the PVR software - won't work - Vista comes up and says the hardware is incompatible w/Vista. That's a deal breaker to me. I need to fiddle with it some more tonight. I think that I might be able to get it to work if I disable the aero interface, but that's one of the things I really like.
Oh - and no performance issues, even with everything looing good. My machine scored a 4 in the performance test, for some reason the fact that my C: drive was nearly full pulled some points away. Wierd, since I have Vista installed on my E: drive.
I haven't installed the latest Nvidia drivers - still using the MSFT ones that came w/Vista. - other than that - it's all good.
Needed driver for Highpoint ATA100 PCI card that I run the drive off of that I wanted to install it to.. I grabbed the latest XP/2003 driver from the MFG site - worked great. Dual boot is working well too.
Install went well, took longer than I expected.
Upon initial boot, it prompted me to arrange my displays - worked flawlessly.
The only items it didn't have stock drivers for was my SB Live! 24bit, my Leadtek Winfast TV2000 tuner card, and some other unknown device that I haven't figured out yet. Creative has a beta Vista driver for that card on their site - initial install attempt took waaaay too long and didn't work. Rebooted, tried again, driver worked great.
Triend to install the latest Winfast drivers - with SOME success, it installed, and then installed the PVR software - won't work - Vista comes up and says the hardware is incompatible w/Vista. That's a deal breaker to me. I need to fiddle with it some more tonight. I think that I might be able to get it to work if I disable the aero interface, but that's one of the things I really like.
Oh - and no performance issues, even with everything looing good. My machine scored a 4 in the performance test, for some reason the fact that my C: drive was nearly full pulled some points away. Wierd, since I have Vista installed on my E: drive.
I haven't installed the latest Nvidia drivers - still using the MSFT ones that came w/Vista. - other than that - it's all good.
How about software, though? Everything you need working okay to let you stop using XP?Originally posted by: SuperSix
Installed last night to a spare drive..
Needed driver for Highpoint ATA100 PCI card that I run the drive off of that I wanted to install it to.. I grabbed the latest XP/2003 driver from the MFG site - worked great. Dual boot is working well too.
Install went well, took longer than I expected.
Upon initial boot, it prompted me to arrange my displays - worked flawlessly.
The only items it didn't have stock drivers for was my SB Live! 24bit, my Leadtek Winfast TV2000 tuner card, and some other unknown device that I haven't figured out yet. Creative has a beta Vista driver for that card on their site - initial install attempt took waaaay too long and didn't work. Rebooted, tried again, driver worked great.
Triend to install the latest Winfast drivers - with SOME success, it installed, and then installed the PVR software - won't work - Vista comes up and says the hardware is incompatible w/Vista. That's a deal breaker to me. I need to fiddle with it some more tonight. I think that I might be able to get it to work if I disable the aero interface, but that's one of the things I really like.
Oh - and no performance issues, even with everything looing good. My machine scored a 4 in the performance test, for some reason the fact that my C: drive was nearly full pulled some points away. Wierd, since I have Vista installed on my E: drive.
I haven't installed the latest Nvidia drivers - still using the MSFT ones that came w/Vista. - other than that - it's all good.
Originally posted by: archcommus
How about software, though? Everything you need working okay to let you stop using XP?Originally posted by: SuperSix
Installed last night to a spare drive..
Needed driver for Highpoint ATA100 PCI card that I run the drive off of that I wanted to install it to.. I grabbed the latest XP/2003 driver from the MFG site - worked great. Dual boot is working well too.
Install went well, took longer than I expected.
Upon initial boot, it prompted me to arrange my displays - worked flawlessly.
The only items it didn't have stock drivers for was my SB Live! 24bit, my Leadtek Winfast TV2000 tuner card, and some other unknown device that I haven't figured out yet. Creative has a beta Vista driver for that card on their site - initial install attempt took waaaay too long and didn't work. Rebooted, tried again, driver worked great.
Triend to install the latest Winfast drivers - with SOME success, it installed, and then installed the PVR software - won't work - Vista comes up and says the hardware is incompatible w/Vista. That's a deal breaker to me. I need to fiddle with it some more tonight. I think that I might be able to get it to work if I disable the aero interface, but that's one of the things I really like.
Oh - and no performance issues, even with everything looing good. My machine scored a 4 in the performance test, for some reason the fact that my C: drive was nearly full pulled some points away. Wierd, since I have Vista installed on my E: drive.
I haven't installed the latest Nvidia drivers - still using the MSFT ones that came w/Vista. - other than that - it's all good.
I haven''t had time to do much other than install it, and get the drivers working. If I can't get the tuner card to work, I won't use Vista (or I will have to get a tuner card that does work in Vista) as I use the tuner card as my TV in my bedroom.
I'll fiddle with it more ofer the next few days and report back.
Number1
Diamond Member
- Feb 24, 2006
- 7,881
- 549
- 126
Originally posted by: yelo333
Originally posted by: Number1
Originally posted by: Linux23
I must say that this is the most useless version of Windows yet.
The thing is a pig. There should be no reason any OS should consume 800MB of system memory out of the box.
I pray and hope that Microsoft falls flat on their face in their effort to create the most bloated OS in existance.
Your credibility as a windows critic is rather dubious considering your name.
Go back to your linux crap and STFU.
Yes and it's people like him who give us users of unix-like OS's a bad name, too. For many of us, yes, Linux sucks, but for what we use our computers for, it sucks the least. I recall drag writing a pretty good article on this. So please don't call it all crap b/c it has been given a bad name by certain users.
Edit: Thanks for the torrent, using it now!
My comment was directed at Linux23 exclusively. Sorry if i offended you or other linux users.
cant install nvidias lddm (or whatever its called) drivers for 6600 go on my asus z71v.
any info on how to get aero glass to work?
any info on how to get aero glass to work?
^^
My buddy installed it & got it working on his Z71v, I can ask him. However, what drivers are you trying to install? NVIDIA's drivers I don't think usually work for the notebook graphics, you need a modded driver or one from Asus.
My buddy installed it & got it working on his Z71v, I can ask him. However, what drivers are you trying to install? NVIDIA's drivers I don't think usually work for the notebook graphics, you need a modded driver or one from Asus.
TRENDING THREADS
-
Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000)- Started by DisEnchantment
- Replies: 25K
-
Discussion Intel Meteor, Arrow, Lunar & Panther Lakes Discussion Threads
- Started by Tigerick
- Replies: 21K
-
Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread- Started by TheF34RChannel
- Replies: 23K
-
-
Facebook
Twitter