Well the good news is I have a fresh install of an OS. The bad news is that I have Vista Enterprise on here now. <CF_ConspiracyTheory> It seems that the Dell Inspiron has something that does not allow you to install any other OS than what it shipped with. My Inspron at home did the same exact thing that my Inspron here at work did today. At home I wanted to go from XP MCE to XP Pro. When I got to the Windows Setup portion of the install, I would get the BSOD. Try as I might I could *not* get past the BSOD. I called Dell and they informed me that I cannot change the OS unless I buy it from them. I said WTF? I OWN this copy of XP Pro. They sent me the MCE recovery CD and I ended up going back to that. Fastforward to today. Same exact thing happend. No matter what I did I could not get past the BSOD. So I put a Vista Enterprise CD in the machine and lo and behold, the install went flawlessly. </CF_ConspiracyTheory> Oh well, at least I only have to deal with this POS OS for a few more weeks until I get back into the Army. I swear I am going to buy a new laptop and install Ubuntu on it and be done with Windows all together.
Bruce On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just reviewed a quote my dad got for a new desktop. Recommended XP > over Vista. I'd switch back to XP if it weren't such a hassle to > un/reinstall. > > My latest problem came today with, yes, SQL Server 2005. First, it's > not compatable with Vista outta the box (you have to apply SP2). > Second, Microsoft has gone so far off the deep end with their new > permissions scheme that it's virtually impossible to run SQL Server on > it without jumping through about 23 hoops first. > > Vista, you can bite my left nut. > > -Cameron > > PS: Please don't - that would be very painful. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:258024 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
