VISTA THREAD - For problems, etc..

the.m said:
All I can say is its far from right or you need a conroe at 4Ghz to run it.
Spec I am running it on is FX51 at 2.5Ghz, 2GB ram, X800XTpe.
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All I can say is that you have driver issues.

You don't need a 4Ghz Conroe to run it, it works as well if not quicker than XP on an Athlon XP 2400+ and 2600+ system with 512Mb & 2Gb RAM respectively.
 
Installed fine, but have an "unknown device" in the device manager.
Motherboard is an Asus A8N-SLI Premium.

This used to be fixed by inserting the CD that came with the motherboard. I've tried running the CD in compatibility mode, but it still isn't fixing the driver issue.

Anyone else had the same problem?
 
The B.A. said:
Anyone managed to get an AV package running on Vista 64? Tried Avast (didn't realise it was only for 32 but), EZ sometin or other (no realtime scan) & NOD32 (Makes both by CPU's run at 100% all the time).

Cheers,

B.A.
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Trend Micro have released a Beta version of PC-Cillin Internet Security for Vista:
https://www.trendbeta.com
 
i've got a biostar nforce 4 410 m-939 motherboard and its not letting me load up the drivers to let it recognise my raptor 36GB. any ideas? i've already loaded the raid drivers but it doesnt like em (could be 32bit? or incompatible due to it being xp drivers?)
help :(
 
Has anyone tried installing Vista on a RAID 0 partition yet? I've re-partitioned my RAID 0 (striped) C: drive so that I now have a second 40GB partition to use for messing around with Vista.

But when I run my Vista DVD (and by the way, this happened with the Vista I downloaded from Bittorrent and the Vista I downloaded from Microsoft) it won't go any further than the second progress bar!!

This is a bit annoying as I installed a very early BETA before Christmas with no problems! Admittedly, this was on a totally different system, however.
 
installed vista by disabling the raid in the bios, got it installed it does appear abit slow but it looks better.
 
Sultan of Ping said:
Has anyone tried installing Vista on a RAID 0

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This is a bit annoying as I installed a very early BETA before Christmas with no problems! Admittedly, this was on a totally different system, however.
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I'm presuming seeing as you had the BETA before Christmas that you're an MSDN subscriber? If you are, then use the Beta 2 in your subscription and NOT the download version. They are 2 totally different products. The Beta 2 in the MSDN subscription I've managed to get working on a RAID0 no problems.
 
Ati Drivers for Vista Beta 2 x64, random bug where the install manager fails to resognise the hardware. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt (I have install Vista twice on the same machine and the drivers worked first install and didnt on the second). Ati acknowledge this in the release notes.

nVidia platform drivers, nforce 4 AMD (older nf4 boards, especially the ones which allow RAID across both IDE and SATA), no corresponding hardware apparent for some of the drivers, cannot install IDE/SATA (although amusingly i did manage to manually install RAID tool by copying the files to system by hand :confused: ) and omg is drive (fixed and removable) slow as is :mad:

pcCillin installs and works fine but cannot access the internet for updates.
NOD32 has a cow (dumping IMON did help!)
CA ez antivirus (I think it was!) installs ok but cannot start.

Anyone with ideas relating to the nVidia and/ or ATi points, feel free to enlighten me (that said I might try a reinstall to get past the totally random ATi issue)

And for those totally ****** *** with UAP, its easily disabled from control panel.
 
~J~ said:
I'm presuming seeing as you had the BETA before Christmas that you're an MSDN subscriber? If you are, then use the Beta 2 in your subscription and NOT the download version. They are 2 totally different products. The Beta 2 in the MSDN subscription I've managed to get working on a RAID0 no problems.
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? Beta 2 = 5384.4. Should be the same wherever you obtain it. Unless you're talking about 5456, which is a pre-RC1 release.
 
I have tried both the 64 bit RC1 and the 32 bit, and cannot get either to complete. I previously installed Beta 1 with no problem, just lots of driver issues, but even after a format, both RC1 releases fails.
Symptoms are it starts to load windows fine, going through expanding and installing files, it reboots, and says wait a while, followed by a series of dots going slowly across the screen. It then reboots, and shows RC1 in the bottom corner, and the build number, but after a few minutes, the screen goes off, but the hard disk still flashes for about ten minutes, and then stops. I have tried leaving it alone for an hour, but it just sits there. I reboot, and tried going into safe mode, but it shows the message safe mode in each corner, but says I need to complete the install and to reboot, which I do, but it sits there with a blank screen.

I have an Asrock dual sata with AMD64 4400 dual core, and 2 gigs of Ram. Running the new Vista compatability check program tells me it will work but I will need new drivers for my sound card, (a rather old but gold Hercules
Theatre 7), but otherwise OK.
I am running on the latest Asrock 2.2 bios, and have tried with no overclock.

Anyone any ideas please, I am losing heart.
 
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Right for anyone having problems with media centre and shell errors.
DO not install any codec packs or divx use ffdshow instead it worked for me on both my pc and laptop and now all my videos desplay the thumbnails with no problems.

Has anybodie tried playing a dvd through media centre??? Ive tried on both my laptop and pc and its so jerkey its unplayable the sound also skips like a mother.
 
Currently got an odd one with RC1 32-bit (can't replicate it in x64). My "explorer" CPU usage is 50%-100% CONSTANTLY. I cannot seem to stop it no matter what I do.

Any ideas?
 
paradigm said:
Currently got an odd one with RC1 32-bit (can't replicate it in x64). My "explorer" CPU usage is 50%-100% CONSTANTLY. I cannot seem to stop it no matter what I do.

Any ideas?
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If you have cool and quiet on try turning it off.
Go into resource moniter and look at CPU it will tell you what is using up all the cpu time and it will even give a small description of the process.

If you upgraded from xp try a fresh install it sorted out all sorts of performance problems for me.

Try ending explorer .exe in the processes tab.

Try a spyware scan.

Thats all I can think of now Its not much but its a start.
 
can someone check this out click the printer icon in ie7 ( just above ) does it print or save? mine saves the only way to print is to drop down the menu.


can someone who can file a bug report please do so if the bug is proven
 
Has anyone got a working TV Tuner in vista? I need to grab one for uni but i can't find much conclusive evidence on which ones work or not.

I hear most with BDA drivers work in the Media Center application, but theres none actually confirmed. I'm looking at the USB-stick types hyprid if possible.
 
I had internet problems when using my Marvell LAN port of my DFI ultra-d

When i re-installed with the cable pluged into the other one it worked a treat. :)

Matt
 
Chris1712 said:
Has anyone got a working TV Tuner in vista? I need to grab one for uni but i can't find much conclusive evidence on which ones work or not.

I hear most with BDA drivers work in the Media Center application, but theres none actually confirmed. I'm looking at the USB-stick types hyprid if possible.
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I have a nebula pci card working but with BDA only in x86, if you install the latest xp apps/drivers it does load but there is no picture and sound is choppy. BDA is fine just now but you dont get any off the great features offered by nebulas full software, They havent even released a beta vista driver in x86 yet never mind x64 :(
 
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