Reinstalling vista now

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FIRST THING I did when it booted in was to go to device manager. Under Human Interface devices in device manager, it has picked up 5 devices. And It hasnt listed it as microsoft wireless desktop kit 2.10. It has listed twice A USB HID compliant device (KB+M) and 3 other similar instances which represent the function buttons (Previously these were all listed as unknown devices).

Now, I am hoping to god this means I can also get bluetooth going!

But, I would like someones advice. I have the appropriate drivers for the kb+M (intellitype and intellipoint from Microsoft), should I install it now? Or leave it and see if vista still picks it up with no problem after I reboot?

Im currently posting from my dads computer, the last thing i am installing is the drivers for the wireless card!
 
*sigh*

Well that lasted 5 minutes. I was installing alcohol soft and mid installation it crapped up, gave me a bsod.

Upon boot now in safe or normal mode, something pops up, a windows installer, says something about trying to instal ccc-softcore-ms or something like that then gives me the BSOD again.

Cant stop it. So, formatting AGAIN and going to see how it runs, without installing alcohol soft. That would be no big deal I can get other burning sftware if thats all that is wrong.
 
Probably not advisable to use software that taps into the OS at such a very low level that's not officially Vista compatible. All devices with disc emulation are likely to cause issue - Alcohol, Daemon Tools (apparently an old version of DT works fine...).
 
Well when I get this installed again, ill check if they kb+M is recognised instantly. If yes ill get java on, then update the display drivers and so forth.

Do you think I should reboot after installing each app or do them all together?
 
Well, reinstalled again, and that installer that popped up was actually the ati drivers. I installed it first, and immediately restarted and that thing popped up but it preceeded fine. Installing java sdk and jdk now, I might reboot after I install each program to be on the safe side.
 
It does? How will I know if its "broken?"

well ill check if I have the latest version in a mo.

So far so good....ish. Everything is being picked up and is being installed. It even recognises the MS VX-6000 webcam.

However, If I try to change its settings, change the res of the video or pictures, i get a BSOD and it says "Bad_Pool_header" At least that is what I think it says.

Im also pretty sure the same thing will happen if i try to have a webcam chat in msn messenger.

For the moment I could go back to the XP drivers for it though I would lose functionality but thats better than it crashing.

Its definitely the vista drivers Im using though, so it is kinda annoying.

Providing all the rest of the software installs properly Im gonna make a dvd backup, Or whatever ultimate calls that feature.
 
Start something that uses Java and the GUI will slip into Aero Basic using Java's JRE 5. (Unless they fixed it in later updates, but I was lead to believe the fix was in JRE 6 - which is what I've been using since RC1)
 
Oh yea I remember that happening when I opened some program the other day.

Well I will get that update after I finish installing everything else.

Have yet to try bluetooth but at the moment the only problem seems to be the MS webcam. Everything else seems to be working fine.
 
I googled bad_pool_header error message and it seems to come up quite a lot but couldnt find any references to it and using the MS vx-6000 webcam. Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?
 
Well, with the exception of the webcam everything is going! Even bluetooth, though I cant get the bluetooth headset to take over as microphone (says it is but nada happening)

Time to make a backup I think!

Though I have discovered that I did a very silly thing. I installed windows onto my IDE hdd, and the sata hdd is sitting idle. DOH!
 
the-void said:
Deamon Tools 4.06 works flawlessly on Vista.
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Not on my PC it doesn't. If I reboot my PC, I have to re-mount the image I had mounted before I rebooted.

EDIT: Nevermind, it's doing that cause I've got autoplay disabled.
 
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Well, I'm going to go back to the ms vx-6000 xp drivers, and then my system is stable! WOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Think I will pick up some dual layer dvds tomorrow and do a full backup of the system
 
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