Vista Take 3

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Well I just installed Vista for the third time:

Vista take 1 went under due to a hardware change ( it apparantly didnt like a new mobo)
Vista take 2 went under with the hdd it was installed on, click of doom...
Vista take 3, only reinstalled now coz I have pc problems, and I need to exclude a hardware problem.

Although I used to doubt it, I now hope it's my xp acting up and not a hardware problem, because I've excluded everything now but a mainboard problem, a software problem or a cpu problem :( ( happens on 2 gfx card, of which one I'm sure is 100% okay, happens with 2 psu's, happens with all 4 of my geil modules, in any configuration (eg. with one module), on stock settings...).

Time will tell, I will have to prep my vista for gaming and give it a good few tests and hope it doesn't crash, unlike XP. ( problem is a BSOD blaming nv4disp.dll in several games, and the problem got worse during a few months after it was still managable ( eg. cod4 and mpeg4 films used to be fine, now also started to crash/bsod in xp).

Atm I'm kind of making vista to my liking, eg. installing all updates & ultimate extras, using the hidden admin account so UAC isn't a problem ( I used to keep it enabled in Vista take2, but with the hidden admin account, it didn't prompt for everything anymore), dling the dutch language pack ( Vista ult x64...), installing drivers, and all essential apps like codec packs, xfire, msn and ultramon.

Luckily this process of doing the basics needed to make the OS to my liking is speeding up with each install of vista, first time I got vista I was desperate and it took me over 24 hours, the 2nd time it was done in 10 hours, now I'm nearing the 2nd hour and most things are done really.

Just wanted to share.

EDIT: Observed that installing & booting Vista is much much faster by using an hdd a little bit faster.
My old hdd got 5.2, this one 5.9, old hdd was an hitachi dekstar 160gb 7200rpm ata 100 2mb cache, now its a WDAAKS5000 16mb cache sata II 7200rpm NCQ...
On the old hdd vista took over 45 mins to install.
This took 25 at most.
 
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Okay this morning I ran into a small problem:

Does anyone know where the OS language is changed again :p?

I've installed the Dutch language pack successfully through windows update but I forgot where you change the display language :D.
 
swinnie said:
I don't have Vista so I would imagine something similar to Regional Settings?
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Done, TY.
I forgot about that and was searching like an idiot in the time/time zone settings lol.

Caged said:
Did you do a clean install this time?
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What do u mean by that? Do you mean I formatted my hdd's: Of course not.
If you mean boot from DVD and just install a fresh install of vista ( how could I do otherwise anyway, my XP can't be upgraded since its 32 bit, and my old vista is gone completly together with a whole hdd ) and dualboot Vista and XP again, yes.
 
I would recommend that once you have set up vista how you like with all the updates and chat progs and antivir etc that you ghost clone it to dvd for backup then if anything does happen in future you have a full install with all updates (as of that time) and neccasary drivers and progs already setup for you so saves you doing all this again.
 
bledd. said:
nv4disp is an nvidia display driver

try another set of drivers & game patches..
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Dude, I've tried 5 sets of drivers, 3 beta's 2 whql's.
Properly installed with dirvercleaner & safemode rubbish after uninstall.

2 diff gfx cards, of which one is 100% fine, as it worked for years.

It aint the driver.
Of course I know nv4disp is the nvidia driver, but I've excluded that possibility by trying more than 1 gfx card, and 5 sets of drivers.

As I've said in the OP, I've excluded everything but: Software problem/conflict, mainboard and cpu.
 
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