Vista Beta 2 Goes Public Today

Coolasmoo · 17 Jun 2006 at 00:43

Just a little tip if the following ever happens to you.

I set vista to standby by accident before (32bit) meant to reboot, and upon resuming i got a blue screen

My onboard realtek Lan card would not work after this , router would not see it and it kept showing as no cable connected in Xp and Vista.

The only thing that got it back online was by turning off the PSU and back on again :confused:

Maybe a simple fix, but it had me scratching my head for a good while.

~J~ · 17 Jun 2006 at 12:30

Anyone managed to find a virtual CD mounting program that works yet, and anyone tried nVidia's beta drivers for gaining SATA/RAID on NF4?

GreenMint · 17 Jun 2006 at 16:52

Hey guys, just read through this whole thread, wow, lots going on

Right, just to pushover my, well, i wouldn't say problem, but situation i would like to look at and maybe get assistance with?

I have 3 drives

C:\ 160GB ATA
D:\ 60GB ATA
E:\ 80GB SATA
T:\ Removable USB 2.0 300GB drive

I have windows XP installed on drive e, and proceeded to back up all of my c drive to T, i then formatted and installed vista on my c drive, the E drive is set to be booted from and of course as vista is on c and xp is on e i'm not getting any kind of dual boot options, i'm honestly not sure of the best way around this? Would anyone let me know a way that would allow me to get the dual boot menu without too much shuffling around? or will i be looking at a lot of work & hassle?

Thanks guys!

BlizzardX · 17 Jun 2006 at 16:53

So how do you add extensions to Vista then? I've been trying to get torrents associated with utorrent but it won't accept it, and there is no way of adding them manually.

Darkwave · 17 Jun 2006 at 17:16

BlizzardX said:
So how do you add extensions to Vista then? I've been trying to get torrents associated with utorrent but it won't accept it, and there is no way of adding them manually.

I just used the "open with..." dialog and checked "always open with this program" to associate .torrent and .tor with BitTornado.

BlizzardX · 17 Jun 2006 at 18:14

Hmmm...Hasn't worked with me, as that was the first thing i tried, and then i tried it again...

feriso · 17 Jun 2006 at 20:11

Ok this is getting on my wick now - I can't get the x64 iso properly. It keeps coming in at 14MB - I've tried Firefox, Gozilla and NetTransport and all come back the same. Any suggestions as it is driving me nuts.

wnb · 17 Jun 2006 at 21:05

Has anyone managed to get vista media centre to work with a 360?

tmileson · 17 Jun 2006 at 23:29

The media center extension functionality doesn't work in Beta 2. It's being tested now and will be in the next main build.

n3crius · 18 Jun 2006 at 08:41

i have the beta from our msdn subscription but i want to try downloading it anyway.

so check this out - i download the 64bit version yesterday - does it in a few hours - and hey presto i've got a 4gb file with nothing inside it other than a TXT file!!!

vanandjuanunited · 18 Jun 2006 at 09:18

n3crius said:
i have the beta from our msdn subscription but i want to try downloading it anyway.

so check this out - i download the 64bit version yesterday - does it in a few hours - and hey presto i've got a 4gb file with nothing inside it other than a TXT file!!!

Its an image so burn it with nero or whatever.

Trifid · 18 Jun 2006 at 09:18

n3crius said:
i have the beta from our msdn subscription but i want to try downloading it anyway.

so check this out - i download the 64bit version yesterday - does it in a few hours - and hey presto i've got a 4gb file with nothing inside it other than a TXT file!!!

That is what it is. Burn an image of it to DVD and it will work. Or alternatively, you can see all the files with Daemon Tools.

vanandjuanunited · 18 Jun 2006 at 09:21

turtle3 said:
Installed the 64 bit and running fine, but whats the deal with connecting to the internet via wireless I have a netgear WG111v2, is there absolutely no way this router will work wirelessly with Vista would the 32bit version of vista recognise my wireless set up?? I dont see why its so hard that microsoft cant include the software and back compat drivers like in XP to pick up wireless set ups,??? Also does this mean that if you buy vista you will have to buy a whole new 64bit compat wireless set up??

looking forward to having a good look around vista but with no internet connection its all a bit pointless

No problems here with Netgear 111v2 under 32 bit. Dont run the disk - let vista do it for you if you havent tried it already. Even my audio (audigy ) was picked up no problems. Am quite impressed. Stable so far and no crashes/issues.

n3crius · 18 Jun 2006 at 09:47

i tried it on alcohol and it came up with invalid disc etc. just didnt read anything from it

BlizzardX · 18 Jun 2006 at 11:13

n3crius said:
i have the beta from our msdn subscription but i want to try downloading it anyway.

so check this out - i download the 64bit version yesterday - does it in a few hours - and hey presto i've got a 4gb file with nothing inside it other than a TXT file!!!

Thats right, as the file image is UDF you have to burn it to DVD to see all the files, otherwise you just get a text file

Trifid · 18 Jun 2006 at 12:42

Anyone know how you copy folders? I want to copy all of the music I have into iTunes, but I can only do it by folder contents at a time which will take me for ever.

marc2003 · 18 Jun 2006 at 12:59

the usual right click, copy, paste works as does dragging and dropping..... :confused:

Trifid · 18 Jun 2006 at 13:06

Ahhh, dragging and dropping worked.

Now all I need is the media functions to work with the 360

Ol!ver · 18 Jun 2006 at 13:07

Trifid said:
Now all I need is the media functions to work with the 360

If that worked I'd be using the beta 24/7......

Trifid · 18 Jun 2006 at 14:08

In the setup the 360 says that the region code is incorrect which suggests the Americans can use it fine...