Vista RC2 Released

posting from vista now!

took a while to get it to install, kept saying my new seagate hdd wasnt bootable...

so eventually i thought of switching to SATA port 2, and it booted just fine first time.

it looks so cool. connected to internet straight away no probs...its downloading updates!
 
has any found out how to sync with a pda using the inbuilt centre?i have tried, it find and installes the driver for my dell axim but it does not allow me to set up a partnership
 
I have one problem with Windows Vista, with my WiFI card.

I'm using this : OcUK Value WL-GI-600XA 54Mbps Wireless PCI Card (NW-001-OK) which I believe is a Dynamode, which uses the Marvell chipset.

Vista recognises it and tries to install a driver for Marvell Libertas 802.11b/g wireless lan client adapter, MRVW13B.sys version 1.00.00.46, 21/06/2006. But everytime Vista boots, it says "cannot start (code 10)".

I managed to get it to work just once, by uninstalling, and rebooting. It re-installed the MRVW13B.sys driver. But that trick no longer works. I've tried the original cd, but says my current drivers are up-to-date. I've also searched thoroughly for a solution online, but can't find one.

I was wondering whether I should try to delete the driver it's currently using and try to force an install with the driver on the CD, or another driver?

In Windows XP it's using MRV8335XP.sys v.3.01.00.009 01/09/2004, which I installed from the original CD. I've just updated this to v.3.01.01.07 22/02/05.

If I don't manage to get this running, I'll have to buy another card. :(
 
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Shutdown issue

Anyone else have this problem with RC2 ?. The screen shuts down but the PC continues to whirr away. I have to keep the power button pressed to shutdown properly or to wake it up.

This is quite worrying - I use media centre a lot for recording - it won't now fire up on it's own due to the lack of a working sleep mode

If anyone has had this problem and has resolved it then please let me know how. Cheers.
 
wwwebber said:
Anyone else have this problem with RC2 ?. The screen shuts down but the PC continues to whirr away. I have to keep the power button pressed to shutdown properly or to wake it up.

This is quite worrying - I use media centre a lot for recording - it won't now fire up on it's own due to the lack of a working sleep mode

If anyone has had this problem and has resolved it then please let me know how. Cheers.
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I have this on RC1 also..!!!

Been looking about to find a fix but nothing as yet :(
 
Spent ages installing and configuring only to find WoW crashes everytime it's started.

Back to XP till some more stable drivers are available.
 
AlfCheesey said:
I have one problem with Windows Vista, with my WiFI card.

I'm using this : OcUK Value WL-GI-600XA 54Mbps Wireless PCI Card (NW-001-OK) which I believe is a Dynamode, which uses the Marvell chipset.

Vista recognises it and tries to install a driver for Marvell Libertas 802.11b/g wireless lan client adapter, MRVW13B.sys version 1.00.00.46, 21/06/2006. But everytime Vista boots, it says "cannot start (code 10)".

I managed to get it to work just once, by uninstalling, and rebooting. It re-installed the MRVW13B.sys driver. But that trick no longer works. I've tried the original cd, but says my current drivers are up-to-date. I've also searched thoroughly for a solution online, but can't find one.

I was wondering whether I should try to delete the driver it's currently using and try to force an install with the driver on the CD, or another driver?

In Windows XP it's using MRV8335XP.sys v.3.01.00.009 01/09/2004, which I installed from the original CD. I've just updated this to v.3.01.01.07 22/02/05.

If I don't manage to get this running, I'll have to buy another card. :(
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Have you turned off driver signing?
 
gurusan said:
Have you turned off driver signing?
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Nope - how do you do that?

Edit : I think I've managed to switch it off, but again, when I right-click the .inf file, and tell it to install, it comes back with the install error : The Inf file you selected does not support this method of installation.
 
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argh!

what I thought would be a good installation, having heard good news from everyone here and a flawless installtion at work left me banging my head against a well till 3am this morning.

Hardware wise, I've nothing fancy. A Shuttle SN25p, two Spinpint 160Gb in SATA0, and a 250gb SATA as a datadrive. 2Gb ram and a 6800GT. Nowt fancy.

Booting from the Vista DVD, showed me my 2 sata spinpoints (I disconnected my data drive for safety reasons). Despite having the nVidia RAID drivers on a flash card, and installing the driver, Vista would NOT show them as a combined 320Gb stripe.

Even trying to install on one single drive resulted in the installation program saying something about how no information was available in the BIOS, and failed.

So trying to be clever, installed XP, ll the service packs, drivers, etc, etc, and tried to install Vista.

This time, the installation went right through to the end, all files uncopressed, final installations, cleaning up, etc, etc. But as soon as it boots into Vista for the final (or first time depending on how you look at it), after about 2 seconds of the green progress bar scrolling, I get a blue screen of death of a split second before it resets!

Has anyone any ideas or thoughts on what could be wrong?

The Vista compatibility tool says there's no errors at all and I should have a trouble free installation.
 
~J~ said:
argh!

what I thought would be a good installation, having heard good news from everyone here and a flawless installtion at work left me banging my head against a well till 3am this morning.

Hardware wise, I've nothing fancy. A Shuttle SN25p, two Spinpint 160Gb in SATA0, and a 250gb SATA as a datadrive. 2Gb ram and a 6800GT. Nowt fancy.
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SATA RAID0 is pretty fancy! It's not driverless, anyway - so it's not forced to work. You shouldn't have had any problems installing on a single SATA drive though - you sure you configured them as just bog standard drives in the BIOS?
 
Is it fancy? Crikey, thought it was the norm now! lol

Yep, appreciate it's not driverless, and when installation XP, I had to F6 at the start to install nVidia's RAID0 drivers, but I've heard 'success' stories from others across the boards with nForce4 and the latest RC1 drivers (even though this is RC2).

As for the BIOS, I've simply enabled RAID on SATA channel 1, and in the nVidia RAID configuration screen, moved both into a stripe (so the 2 160Gb's for a 298Gb stripe).

I'd like to have the OS installed on an OS for speed issues, but if it can't be done then so be it, although don't really want to give up at the first hurdle.
 
marc2003 said:
set it up so it does not switch the hard disk off (default 20 mins). change it to 0 (never). solved my problems anyway..... :)
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Just tried that - no luck. I don't see how it would work anyway to be honest - the computer won't shutdown or restart successfuly without a hard reset via the power button. Thanks all the same.
 
wwwebber said:
Just tried that - no luck. I don't see how it would work anyway to be honest - the computer won't shutdown or restart successfuly without a hard reset via the power button. Thanks all the same.
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This may sound really stupid but how are you attempting to shut the computer down ?

are you clicking on the Window icon (old start button)? and then clicking on the big red power button ? if so then all thats going to do is put it in a sort of sleep mode.

You need to click the Window icon then theres a little > icon next to the padlock button, click that > icon then select shutdown.

Chances are your already doing this but it's worth a shot :D
 
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