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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:15 pm
by cblaze
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
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:00 am
by Ryan from Ohio
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.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:05 am
by William from NOLA
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.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:09 am
by Bwcad1
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.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:56 am
by cblaze
idk but now that i upgraded my memory and hard drive.im loving this vista home premium
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:08 am
by Ryan from Ohio
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...
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:14 am
by Bwcad1
what brand mobo do you have?
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:47 am
by Ryan from Ohio
Asus m2n-sli deluxe
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:26 am
by Bwcad1
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:33 am
by Ryan from Ohio
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...