Octopuss

Someone told me there is a way to have Vista installation shown in verbose mode - just like if you enabled classic install in nLite. Anyone knows how? I googled but no luck.

How comes I downloaded the redist package of 3.5 and it still downloaded some 80MB?

I used to bash Vista (in general) all day long back then. Well, it was for a reason - pre-SP state was pretty **** bad. Finally switched from XP permanently yesterday and so far I like it. BusinessN 64 btw. I saw some **** whining earlier in the thread - well, nothing like clueless babbling about stuff one doesn't have the slightest idea about, eh? Anyway: I got a little question. Is there any other reason besides memory limitation to use 64bit Vista? I mean, vast majority of software is still only available in 32bit versions and there are even no intentions to release in 64bit. Why is that? Under such conditions, what's the advantage of 64bit OS?

I am probably missing something, but Vista is still a bit new to me. Under this computer-properties-advanced (or whatever is it called in english version), I cannot access the system startup and recovery (translation again ). It gives me an error message about not being logged in as a user with sufficient rights. What the hell, I can't go more admin than local admin!!

Solved. I vLited too much (compatibility)

The installator gives me an error stating that installation under 64bit WinXP is impossible (or unsupported; w/e). What should I do? I DO need it!

There are certain drivers that just aren't signed. Well, why not. I installed x64 Vista yesterday and during the process, keyboard and mouse repeatedly stopped working for short periods of time (is that normal?). At some point I got prompted about unsigned driver, BUT the **** keyb&mouse weren't working at that time. I ended up stucked and had to reinstall XP and recreate the Vista disc... Any solution to this?

I don't follow you. Please be more specific. What do you mean by creating a list of removables?

Does anyone have a list of exact components that are hidden for each specific type of functionality checked in there?

I sorted those out. It was not dead, I just didn't know that when you plug something in the x4 slot, all x1 ones get disabled. All (well, most) the BSODs I had are related to one particular game... Must be something badly written. All the slots work - only the real x16 ones sometimes refuses to accept the VGA or something - I am not sure what's up.

I'll answer myself: not. x16 and everything is so much faster. BUT the real x16 slot refuses to accept the presence of the VGA most of the time. I restart the PC and beeeeep, error, no signal going in the monitor. I can reset for ages and no result. Sometimes it seems to help to unplug and plug back, but... I couldn't find anything that really works to solve it. Extremely annoying. Would anyone know what's up?

So I installed my father's PC without remembering he works with three different keyboard layouts. Of course I only left english and something else. Is there any way to slap them back without reinstalling from newly nlited source?

Long story short: is x4 mode enough? By only (or "only") using x4 instead of x16, am I getting any performance hit? I just realized that pci-e slots on my board are dead (wtf??) and the x16 slot runs somewhat unreliably, so I got the card in the lower one. And I just realized it only supports x4 mode.

I once read somewhere how Win activation works - certain components of the PC make a point score which is generated upon first activation, and with each new installation this is somehow compared with value in Ms database somwhere. This is, as I understand it, to prevent using one copy of Windows on more than one computer. Windows is not really THAT cheap, so what if I change half the components or even get brand new PC - will my license stop working or is there any workaround? Like calling the activation hotline and telling them "yeah it really is me, John Doe, I am terribly sorry for upgrading the PC, go ahead and let me use my legally acquired system"... ??

Haha this looks like one weird thing. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...Tpk=killer%2bm1 or http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Bigfoot...ks/KillerNIC_M1 Kinda useless I'd say though... I'm no networking expert at all but this looks like wallet-trap for the uneducated gamer masses...

Well the fact is that it never happened when my connection was slow. Normally it works just fine. Only that this showed up a few times lately. I will try to reproduce it again and post details.

I recently got symmetrical 30mbit connection at home. Fine. Lately I noticed that when I run torrents and they upload at full speed (say slightly over 3MB/s) sometimes when I get back to the PC it hangs in BSOD (didn't write the info down so no idea what it said). It never happened before so I assume it might be the stupid Realtek 8111B unable to handle lots of connections and high speed (though it;s nowhere close to 100mbit anyway). So how are the integrated network adapters in general? Bad? Really bad? Any known problems and reason why to switch over to something else? (if yes, please suggest something).

I wonder what is that person smoking.

I heard some rumors about the power consumption not being too shinily low as it would appear. anyway I got GigaByte EP35-DS4 and I love it - only am unsure about the onboard Realtek network adapter (getting some bsods lately when torrents upload at full speed for a few hours)

Worth upgrading or not? I am happy user of P35 board and love it, but there is always room for improvement

wow. just wow.

I took out the CPU, slammed it back and it works. What kind of voodoo the whole IT is!!!

Well it does keep the settings, only the dreaded FSB all of a sudden. I will try to play with it for a bit, but will likely RMA in the end. But being at least two weeks without the computer SUCKS!

It does not report bad speed, it RUNS at wrong speed. Any change to FSB in the BIOS is completely ignored and it since the BSOD it runs at 333 (which happens to be default for my CPU). The weird thing is that everything works. Network, sound, everything. Just the BIOS and/or the board seems screwed up *somehow*. It was working perfectly fine at 7.5x500 MHz until I had to do hard reset after the BSOD. Just WTF :-O And of course I did reset CMOS several times.

I think my EP35-DS4 went FUBAR. I came home and saw Windoze crashed to BSOD with error in tcpip.sys. Okay, that happens. BUT after reboot it looks like the bios doesn't reflect on any changes at all. I even flashed the BIOS from F5 to F6a (both worked ok before) and no change. I flashed the BIOS and loaded defaults, reseted, then back to BIOS, set up my usual configuration... Only to see (still at the POST screen) the CPU being identified as E8400 (well that is correct) running at um something like 333x7 I believe, despite the fact 500x7.5 was set. When I changed the multiplier to something else the CPU speed went even lower. I don't get it but am getting desperate here. Any ideas what to do? edit: looks like it's just FSB. Locked at 333MHz and I can't change it no matter what (actually I can change it in the BIOS of course but it's ignored).