Gonne be out

cblaze · Post by **cblaze** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:15 pm

i hated vista the first time i had it.the premium version.went back to xp till i could get 2 gbs of memory and a 80 gb hard drive.now that i got the upgrades & vista its doing pretty good.there is ways to keep it from being a memory hog.features can be turned off

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:00 am

well Vista arrived last night. had a hell of a time getting it installed...

Got it installed and woirking... my 500 Gig was only showing 465... So I figured some Linux was still on the hard drive. So I reformatted and reinstalled, sort of... Been running into issues left and right. Blue screen of death... I gotta restart a half dozen + times before it will boot... WTF...

So I did another format this morning. Going to try reinstalling again tonight...

BTW I used "FIXMBR" the first to gos. This time I did a "FIXBOOT" also. We shall see... Im getting very frustrated.

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:05 am

A hard drive will never be what it says it is. There are always losses.

Make sure everything in the bios is set to the right specs. Make sure nothing on it isn't compatible with Vista.

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:09 am

cblaze wrote:i hated vista the first time i had it.the premium version.went back to xp till i could get 2 gbs of memory and a 80 gb hard drive.now that i got the upgrades & vista its doing pretty good.there is ways to keep it from being a memory hog.features can be turned off

vista intelligently utilizes the memory. so what you see is not whats actually being used its actually less but it keeps the memory in a que so to speak so when you launch programs its faster.

cblaze · Post by **cblaze** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:56 am

idk but now that i upgraded my memory and hard drive.im loving this vista home premium

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:08 am

Ok I got vista installed and working awesome Friday night. Had to update bios to fix some issues, fine.

Saturday I was looking at the network stuff messing with it a bit. Everything was working and I was downloading a 1.85 Gig game demo from a trusted site. I left the house for about 2 hours. Come back, computer was asleep. Couldnt wake it up. Cut the power in the rear, fired it up. Everything went fine....

Except...

My networking is messed... Keeps saying unidentified network. Called Verizon DSL and did an hour troublsehoot session. Exhausted all options. Reset button on the modem, CMD ipconfig/release the whole 9 yards. According to them my computer is messed or Vista.

Im taking my computer to my dads to hook into his DSL Modem. I think its the Modem...

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:14 am

what brand mobo do you have?

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:47 am

Asus m2n-sli deluxe

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:26 am

the asus boards have been having issues with corrupt bios and many of them are going to be recalled. i rma'd both of mine back to newegg and got a new gigabyte.

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:33 am

I was reading through reviews and some people have had the NVidia LAN crap out on them. Some didnt work right away, some after some use. I bought this stuff a few months ago, so I cant RMA it to New Egg. have to go direct...

Or...

Just get a LAN card...