A few questions about Vista 64.

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I received my Vista Home Premium 64bit software today and am having a few issues at present. On installing the software I get really long periods of inactivity, just after the "click any key to boot from cd", just after inputting the cd key and a couple more times during install.

These periods of inactivity last around 3-5 minutes where the computer is doing nothing at all, theres no cd access and no hd access. The whole install just felt very slow as well and I was wondering if this was normal. I would say it took 30-40 minutes with a E2160 at stock, does this seem slow to you?

Also I have selected ACHI mode in bios for my sata drives, I have read up about it needs certain drivers? Could this be why everything is slow or do the drivers come on the Vista disc? Lastly when I click in task manager I see some of the things have *32 next to them, does this mean that they are running in 32bit mode and not 64bit? It was just things like Firefox and a few others, does it make any difference that they are not running in 64bit?

Sorry for all the questions, it was so much easier than this when I had Vista 32bit on a laptop :D

Specs are -

E2160
P5K-E
2GB Ram
Western Digital 160 HDD Sata
Sony DVDRW Sata
 
When i installed Vista 64 on my Shuttle it did exactly the same thing, took over an hour to install. It would just spin down and everything would just stop for 5-10 minutes, i thought it was never going to install. Didn't do that on my laptop.
 
Vista still has more problems than many would make out, but its getting there.

Previously, I was completely unable to install a good reliable Vista on my No.1 PC but the last time it went perfect and I actually had a good few weeks of running it flawlessly before I had any real issues as such, and Iwas so happy, I decided to activate it but then it went to hell and never came back and I went back to XP64 until only yesterday, and I gave it another shot.

I am also suffering pauses, although not quite as much as 3-5 minutes, but certainly 5 seconds or so... Enough to pause MP3, Movie or games enough to irritate me to hell.

Anyway, what I would suggest, is simply that you let Vista settle in, give it a fair run through and get all the updates etc in, all *** drivers up to date ( although in spite of many people saying the latest this or that is what you may need, this is not always the case )
 
Thanks for the advice guys :) I checked out Intel's site and they advise to set the sata configuration up as Raid (even if only using 1 disk) as that gives the benefits of AHCI and also makes you "Raid Ready" should you set an array in the future.

I did as they said and while it loaded a little quicker (not sure if it was down to this or just a random factor) it still took a while. Its only during the install though and the actual OS itself I am liking a lot, I have found all drivers for my kit and setting up was less painless than I had expected.

The only thing I can't get working is a temp monitoring application for use during overclocking, Intel TAT doesn't work installing into either program files folder and CoreTemp doesn't work either. Anyone know of a temp app that works?

One thing I will say for Vista though... it likes its ram, after installing all apps its using around 1gb at idle, no wonder everyone seems to have 4gb nowadays ;)
 
Agr3sive said:
Thanks for the advice guys :) I checked out Intel's site and they advise to set the sata configuration up as Raid (even if only using 1 disk) as that gives the benefits of AHCI and also makes you "Raid Ready" should you set an array in the future.
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if your bios as a option to use the sata as ida mode do that. u won't need a sata driver and it'll still run at sata speed..
 
bledd. said:
speedfan works
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Indeed it does, just installed it now and it loads up fine. I didn't find it very accurate though, temps and voltages were way off what I was getting with TAT/CoreTemp in XP.

I had a look on the Asus site and found that there is a new version of PC Probe out (Newer that what was on the CD anyways :p) and that seems to be working well. The only thing is that the CPU seems to be 5c lower at idle and load but everything else is exactly as it was on XP.
 
Hey,
I found this online to get Core Temp working in vista 64. I can;t remmeber where I found it but have uploaded it again for everyone to get:

Clicky

Before running Core Temp.exe run the coretemp-startup.bat file then run Core Temp.exe and it'll all work fine!

Thanks

Neil
 
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