Ah, I just need to have a moan really.
My Server is this
Gigabyte MA78G-DS3H
Phenom 9550
4x1GB Geil 6400
PNY 8800GTS
Audigy 2 ZS + LiveDrive
C: = Hitachi 80GB ( Windows + Utils )
D: = Seagate 400GB ( Programs & Games )
E: = 2 x Seagate 1TB ( Media + ISO Images of Game Disks etc )
F: = WD 320 ( other misc junk )
E: is a network shared with my main PC downstairs as its N:
Now, this PC was running XP64 and it was fantastic. I recently upped it to Win7 ( 64 Bit ) and it was brilliant. No arguements.
Now, I kind of run out of legal licences now, so, given that its only used as a file server, an MP3 player when Im in the LAN room and the odd game when Im playing the kids on theirs, I decided that I can just put Vista back onto it so the kids will all have Windows 7.
What a sodding mistake!
First of all, I have not yet been able to stream any video file at all without it farting, spitting and whistling at me. The only way I can actually watch anything, is if I copy it onto the desktop of my main PC first.
When I did this, I did it with a 200MB file and it took close on an hour to copy... In fact it seemed to hang but for me seeing a small bar of about 1 pixel change to 2 pixels, nothing actually showed up and then it eventually said that it would take 55 minutes... It did indeed take about an hour.
Its not the networking thats the issue because I tried to watch a video upstairs on it directly from E: to KMP and it was no better.
I try playing an MP3 and I might get through it but the second and third just keep pausing all the time.
I bloody hate Vista
Sorry I just had to have a whine cos now I am going to have to buy yet another licence for Windows 7, but what I am doing next time ( I was going to do it this time but with Vista being what it was, I was 50-50 on Windows 7 ) is buy the server and client licences or at least multipacks to save afew quid.
My Server is this
Gigabyte MA78G-DS3H
Phenom 9550
4x1GB Geil 6400
PNY 8800GTS
Audigy 2 ZS + LiveDrive
C: = Hitachi 80GB ( Windows + Utils )
D: = Seagate 400GB ( Programs & Games )
E: = 2 x Seagate 1TB ( Media + ISO Images of Game Disks etc )
F: = WD 320 ( other misc junk )
E: is a network shared with my main PC downstairs as its N:
Now, this PC was running XP64 and it was fantastic. I recently upped it to Win7 ( 64 Bit ) and it was brilliant. No arguements.
Now, I kind of run out of legal licences now, so, given that its only used as a file server, an MP3 player when Im in the LAN room and the odd game when Im playing the kids on theirs, I decided that I can just put Vista back onto it so the kids will all have Windows 7.
What a sodding mistake!
First of all, I have not yet been able to stream any video file at all without it farting, spitting and whistling at me. The only way I can actually watch anything, is if I copy it onto the desktop of my main PC first.
When I did this, I did it with a 200MB file and it took close on an hour to copy... In fact it seemed to hang but for me seeing a small bar of about 1 pixel change to 2 pixels, nothing actually showed up and then it eventually said that it would take 55 minutes... It did indeed take about an hour.
Its not the networking thats the issue because I tried to watch a video upstairs on it directly from E: to KMP and it was no better.
I try playing an MP3 and I might get through it but the second and third just keep pausing all the time.
I bloody hate Vista
Sorry I just had to have a whine cos now I am going to have to buy yet another licence for Windows 7, but what I am doing next time ( I was going to do it this time but with Vista being what it was, I was 50-50 on Windows 7 ) is buy the server and client licences or at least multipacks to save afew quid.