Vista RC2 Released

Echo toxin said:
Does anyone know what is the minimum graphics card (ATi) for Aero? I thought it would work on my sister's Radeon 9200SE but it doesn't.
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How do we know if "Aero" is working please? I have a Radeon 9700 pro.

Mel P
 
Parts are - yes.

(back on XP at moment - have put Vista (issue after RC1) on a new drive - about to upgrade to RC2.)
 
can someone shed some light on how i get it to recognise my Raptor SATA drive for install. Its only picking up the 1 IDE drive i have. at no point did it say press F6 for SATA like XP ?

is it soemthing to do with install drivers button on the bottom, do i need to copy some SATA drivers to my IDE drive and point it to the right place ?
 
Don't bother with 64bit vista, even more of your apps won't work.

Paul Thorrott said:
Welcome to Hell: Software compatibility and Vista x64
You think you're tough? Then try running Windows Vista in x64 mode: It can make a grown man wail like a little girl whose brother just catapulted Barbie over the fence. What's insidious about it is that the first impressions are deceptively good: After installing the thing in under 30 minutes and watching it recognize every single piece of hardware connected to my PC, I started installing applications thinking that this, finally, might be the time to move fully to x64 on my desktop machine.

Big mistake. Applications like Microsoft Office work just fine on the x64 versions of Windows Vista, but almost nothing else does. Adobe Photoshop won't install at all, citing an unspecified compatibility issue. Ditto for Virtual PC 2004. And AnyDVD. And Nero. And iTunes.

Yikes.

Then there are the applications that install just fine but silently fail in different ways when running. The Flickr Uploader application is a good example: This one installs as you'd expect. But when you right-click an image file to upload it, there's no Send to Flickr option in the pop-up menu. The reason is simple: Shell extensions for 32-bit applications won't work in x64 Windows versions. So applications like WinZip and WinRAR will have similar issues.

Quite quickly, it became obvious that x64 was going to be a nonstarter for me. So I wiped out the install and reinstalled the 32-bit version. And now, everything works. I'm so glad that only lasted half a day. Learn from my mistakes and just skip x64 unless you really know what you're doing. Or maybe you just hate yourself.
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Installed Nero7 yesterday and despite the normal complaint about compatibility issues all seemed to go well. I have to say that I only installed the basic burning rom but at least the installer didn't bomb out this time.

So far the only thing I've had problems with is the status monitor for my epson printer which won't finish the install.
 
kidloco said:
is it soemthing to do with install drivers button on the bottom, do i need to copy some SATA drivers to my IDE drive and point it to the right place ?
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I'd guess so but you might be better off sticking them on a floppy.

Wouldn't you think that Vista would have raid drivers built in by now?
 
X-Fi

Hi there everyone

I'm liking this site has given me loads of advice already :)

Is anyone on here having a problem installing X-FI Platinuim on RC2 ???

I had it installed fine on RC1 but now can't get it to work on RC2 have tried all sorts of things, the drivers are installed but says 'No Audio Output Device Connected'

Please help

Thanks
 
RC1/RC2!!

Having used RC1 32bit since launch with minimal troubles, I decided to give RC2 32Bit a whirl.
Most of my bit's worked except Window Media centre.
I use WinTV-2000 but can't get it to work properly. it worked perfectly with RC1, tried reloading driver but no luck.
I have now gone back to RC1, WMC now working ok.
I did Download RC2 again to be sure I did not get a bad copy.
Any ideas.
 
kidloco said:
can someone shed some light on how i get it to recognise my Raptor SATA drive for install. Its only picking up the 1 IDE drive i have. at no point did it say press F6 for SATA like XP ?

is it soemthing to do with install drivers button on the bottom, do i need to copy some SATA drivers to my IDE drive and point it to the right place ?
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What raid is it?

5728 and now RC2 are the first builds actually properly working with my nVidia raid. The beta drivers from nVidia get put on a usb pen and put that in before booting from the RC2 dvd, and then when it gets to the partition screen it's already loaded the drivers from the usb pen, don't even need to click load drivers.

Before this build I had to install XP first on a small partition and then load vista from within XP and load the XP drivers.

Nice that they have sorted it out.

Nick
 
Jesty1 said:
Hi there everyone

I'm liking this site has given me loads of advice already :)

Is anyone on here having a problem installing X-FI Platinuim on RC2 ???

I had it installed fine on RC1 but now can't get it to work on RC2 have tried all sorts of things, the drivers are installed but says 'No Audio Output Device Connected'

Please help

Thanks
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Did you upgrade or clean install, same question to Brian. This is the exact problem I was referring to in my earlier post, if you upgrade, quite often devices will not install no matter what you do, your only solution is a complete clean install.
 
Jesty1 said:
I have done a complete install and formatted the HDD before the install
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Strange, is the device installed in device manager but with a yellow exclamation mark? Or is it still sitting there as a multimedia audio controller?
 
New I should have done a clean install. Still getting an error whilst trying to instal nvidia drivers. Its a x64 installation, but I did by mistake try installing the x86 version at first. Now the x64 installation just says incompatible version,32 bit uninstaller can't initialize. Then if you click cancel on that it says x64 can't install incompatible O/S
 
It is all installed on the Device Manager, under Sound, Video and Game Controllers.

I have tried rebooting the machine several times, and still no joy also tried downloading and reinstalling the drivers again
 
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