I had no problem whatsoever installing vista on a fresh HDD. All my woes came afterwards. IMHO the things reported about hardware compatability are 100% accurate. Hardware that works initially, ends up screwing up. I have an asus dvdrw that worked just fine to install vista and all the software I could get to work on vista. But now I get this shitty code32 error (at least it's not a 1D/10T error ) The explaination is that my drivers are loaded for thwe dvdrw, but another driver is disabling it. WTF? I've uninstalled all I can and still no-go. Any ideas guys/gals?
All I can say is that there is a reason I bought a Macbook. I'll get Vista eventually, but I don't particularly feel like beta testing it for Microsoft. Have you checked the Asus website for an updated driver?
Yea. First thing I did when I got my new Laptop was remove vista and install XP/Linux dual boot. Nothing works in it.
hmm i get opposite results. I'm using Vista on 2 systems and they detected drivers for everything and they are still working great.
I'll probably finally get to installing vista in about a month (I've had a new system ready to go minus the ram since vistas release). Honestly I'm not looking forward to it. I've had to help a couple of customers getting their aircard to work and it just seems like a pain to move around in the system. Its as if MS tried to make everything look good but said to hell with usability.
Sorry to hear you're having problems and don't have any answers for you. I'm gonna wait until Vista is at least 2 years old before considering an install.
My printer is more than 2 years old, HP isn't making vista drivers for it....and so it goes for anything I have that's more than a year old. My asus DVDRW isn't even a year old. Asus non-support site aint worth shit. The only files they offer up, don't work I'm not buying creative, asus, or HP products from here on out. I'm looking at products that actually have a support system for their products...or I'll do without. The companies mentioned, only have products that "work with vista" certification...that means, you have to find a workaround for the incompatabilty more or less on your own, because they don't officially endorse the fixes.
Well that sucks,,,, My copy of vista is on it's way as we speak. It was cheap so I took a chance. WinVista Home Premium 32bit Version; DVD $109.99 Should I send it back?
Vista, in itself, is awesome. most the problem lies with hardware vendors not wanting to support it. M$ must of pissed them off. To complicate my biz, I went and got the ultimate 64bit version.....waste of clams. All I can say is that Crysis better be worth it!
HP pulled this shit when Windows 2000 came out. We had a bunch of printers that they tried to CHARGE us for driver updates. The outcry from that mess forced my company to Kyocera. Fuckers, serves them right.
No vista for me. I have absolutely no need for it at this point in time. I don't play games anymore and the ones I do play, my system more than meets the specs, and all I do is serve music and download torrents. Who needs vista for that??
I think Linux supports Pong. J/K I tried Linux once on a garbage machine and I wasn't a big fan. Just too much crap for me to do (or maybe it was the distro I was using), but I like my ease of use with XP. Everything is setup just the way I want it, and I don't need anything more.
I've played Quake 3, Unreal, UT, and UT2003, on Kubuntu Linux, three days after installing Linux for the first time in my life (not counting a Mandrake encounter from many years ago). It's harder to install the games, but not THAT much harder. It's only the lack of good peripheral support that keeps me from switching to Linux full time. I think this is Linux's chance, since their peripheral support isn't so much worse than Vista's at the moment...
Vista spoiled me but fell short due to too many problems, made windows XP lack, linux wasn't very appealing, so I went midway and got a Mac
My daughter ran UT2003 on her Linux box, the install was easy, and it actually ran faster than it did on Windows! It's limited, but there are actually lots of games on Linux. No worse than Apple probably.
On a brighter note....all my games i'm replaying on maxxed out settings with the 8800, and they're like totally new now. Lara Croft looks great in Anniversary:unibrow:
I was running Vista at my last job so I could test my company's apps on it. VB6 apps running on Vista sure isn't pretty... Since I switched jobs 3 months ago I haven't run Vista, but I liked some features of it. My biggest headache came from driver support, specifically with printers. Other than that it worked pretty well for me. I even managed to get those VB6 apps working. As far as the home PC goes, since I do almost no PC gaming anymore I'm going to give linux another shot.
I just got the dvdrw's working and nero7 installed, now, on to the printer issues. I have a 2 year old HP and a 6 month old HP, neither support vista...so, screw HP, I'll not buy any more of their overpriced crap from here on out. I won't even concider HP for any hardware. The problem with the DVDRW's was due to erronious values placed in the registry. it just required removing upper and lower filter value. There was also an issue with certain cdrom.sys includes that required 'tricking' the repair into reinstalling the "locked" driver. seems Vista locks the cdrom.sys driver after initial vista install. you can't delete it or anything without "tricking" the repair function of the install DVD. proceedure available after digging real deep into MS support. The filter issue is easily found on all usergroups.
I've always been happiest with Canon's printers. My latest Canon offers tanks that hold twice as much ink for half the price of similarly priced HP printers, and the tanks are individual so you never have to throw out colors you're not out of yet. HP and their ink racket were never for me. I remember the days before Fiorina gutted the company, when HP was creditable and their printers were good enough to warrant the ink racket, and before that when they just did testing equipment, they were the Gold Standard for electronics. How the mighty have fallen.
Many years ago, I had a canon printer and was dissapointed with it. That was back in the 3.1/'95 days. I'm much more impressed with their newest offerings and will probably go with them for my next printer.
