Thanks for this, I want to try it but no matter what I do I get a page fault in non paged area blue screen. I've tried it with the x86 and 64 versions. I have a 3500 in a KN1 with 1gb of Corsair RAM, two IDE drives and two SATA's. I'm not trying to put it on the SATA's and so there shouldn't be anything weird with that. Video is a MSI 6600GT.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vincent Winterling Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 4:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Vista: Initial impressions Let's see. It's beta so you expect it to be bit rough around the edges. Backup your family jewels before playing with it because IMHO it really is still not ready for prime time. I attempted to install it as a dual boot on an Athlon64 3200 with 1gb of ram and decent video. Vista rated the machine as a 3. I couldn't get it to install correctly and ended up restoring an image to get XP working again. I learned later that there are better ways to get the dual boot to work. I then attempted to install it with different (I think better install instructions-Install it through XP, works much better) hardware (Athlon XP 3200, 1.5 gb of ram, less powerful video but adequate, older motherboard). The dual boot went well and both versions (Vista, XP) worked well together. Installing networking drivers and audio drivers was problematic given the age of the MOBO, but they did work. Windows couldn't locate anything, and nvidia has some vista ready stuff but it wouldn't work with my setup. Finally broke out the drivers that came with the motherboard and they took after some grumbling from Vista. Sound was restored as were network connections. On the older machine, Aero glass works well and performance did not suffer greatly after I made some tweaks (you can tweak performance settings in much the same way as in XP but you have to look around a bit to find everything you need. For some reason everything seems to have been moved to separate locations (display properties, for example and everything is not as obvious as it could be). I found (after looking around) that it seems Vista is XP on steroids. Lots of muscle but I'm not sure how much extra strength. The visuals are nice and the user interface is unique. I tend to like the gadgets and even added a couple but who knows that thrill may wear off as I tend toward a clean (i.e., uncluttered) desktop. I think overall performance will be enhanced with the better processors (probably dual core) and more graphics memory (256mb seems about where you want to be, but that will ultimately depend upon how fast you want to go-doesn't it always?). I had a problem moving the Outlook.pst file around (I'm testing the new Office beta too at the same time). The new security (I'm guessing) in Vista seemed to have locked a portion of the file and would not let me copy it. I had to go into the XP partition to retrieve it and move it to my production machine. Under the hood, security is definitely strengthened but I'm not sure why M/soft seems intent on locking everything down. The user account control is just plain annoying. You can't make any changes without being second guessed and questioned. More later as I continue to play... Vincent Winterling Vineland, NJ -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
