kartel Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 (edited) I am on Windows Vista after alot of monkeying around, I have it up and running.I am using XP drivers for my soundcard I used the "Live! 5.1 Dell" driver pack and extracted the driver file and used device manager to update the driver, I tried microsofts update after but ditched it cause the first one I can use my microphone and MS's was not functional on record.I am very proud to be using the latest OS and it actually works .Thanks to MSFN for all the links and tools.I found this to be the best way to make the disk, only use XP cause 98 wont cut the cake on this puppy.CRC or MD5 sums verifier to check the official filesizes with your downloaded iso sizes.Ahead Nero has one : http://www.nero.com/us/Nero_MD5_Verifier.html--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ImgBurn (free and with version 2.0.0.0 100% Vista-compatible - install as Admin) can also be used to check the filesizes before you are going to burn the media to a physical Disk:www.ImgBurn.com Burn at 2x & verify Edited September 13, 2006 by kartel
fizban2 Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 glad to hear you got it working kartel, bet it was an interesting jump from 98 to vista
Eck Posted September 14, 2006 Posted September 14, 2006 He,he, I made my Vista RC1 DVD with DeepBurnerPRO on Windows 98SE and it worked perfectly.Interesting that Microsoft Windows is the third entry in the Vista boot loader, but clicking on it just gives an error message that the OS files couldn't be located. I must choose the Earlier Version of Windows selection, which brings up the XP boot loader where I then choose Microsoft Windows to boot up 98SE.This, with 98SE and XP on my SATA hard drive and Vista on a regular IDE hard drive by itself. 98SE and XP were installed first, then I added the IDE drive and had XP disc management partition and format it but did not let it give it a drive letter. I think this saves Vista's restore points from being deleted by XP when XP is booted up.I can access all 3 partitions from Vista, 98SE and XP from XP, and only 98SE from 98SE.Been having all kinds of fun the last few days doing all this!
LLXX Posted September 14, 2006 Posted September 14, 2006 I tried Vista for a few days back when it was still in the 52xx builds, didn't like it too much.Ended up reformatted and reinstalling the XP that was orginally on the drive.Have the newer Vista builds generally improved performance, or is it still quite slow?
fizban2 Posted September 14, 2006 Posted September 14, 2006 I tried Vista for a few days back when it was still in the 52xx builds, didn't like it too much.Ended up reformatted and reinstalling the XP that was orginally on the drive.Have the newer Vista builds generally improved performance, or is it still quite slow?preformance has improved greatly since the 52xx builds, you would be fairly suprised with the gains you would see now i would think, depend on your system though
MagicAndre1981 Posted September 15, 2006 Posted September 15, 2006 I tried Vista for a few days back when it was still in the 52xx buildsVista started to be faster with Builds 54xx. YOu can't compare the speed of a Build 52xx with 5600.
Spyvie Posted September 15, 2006 Posted September 15, 2006 I find that Vista 5600 boots faster on my system than XP pro sp2, it’s kind of a memory hog though. I think 1GB is the minimum, 2GB is preferred… about double what XP needs.
net_user Posted September 15, 2006 Posted September 15, 2006 my rating is a 3.7i wonder how high the ratings go....
Eck Posted September 15, 2006 Posted September 15, 2006 Programs seem to run fine, but I don't think the performance can compete with XP.I think this might be due to the GoBack style logging of every single change to the files that SystemRestore can recover with the right click, file versions utility.XP's SystemRestore doesn't have this, so there's no GoBack style chugga, chugga of the hard drive going on.Vista has a slow bootup (unless you use standby, which I turn off), and moving files around or creating restore points always creates a wait time while I wait for the hard drive to "shut up."The very reason I stopped using GoBack long ago, and now Microsoft in their wisdom has built that crap into the operating system with no off switch that I can see. Sure, you can disable SystemRestore (which I'd rather not do) but that right click file recovery never shuts off. So it will always log every change.
luke.mccormick Posted September 15, 2006 Posted September 15, 2006 I was very surprised with RC1, i have a 5 year old boxDell Dimension 4100Pentium 3 1.0 GHz512 MB RAM40 gig driveit ran very well for that config imotonight im gonna have to try and get it to install on my laptopp3m 1.2 ghz640 mb ram30 gig driveno DVD drive in it tho so im gonna have to open up the image and extract them to a separate partition and install from the hard drive...anyone know if theres any issues with ghost yet?
kartel Posted September 15, 2006 Author Posted September 15, 2006 (edited) I got a 9800pro and it has flickering pixels and color shifts even when I'm in my bios, so I got a 9600 for now, thinking I can get new HW now I'm logo'd. Anyone got 6 6 6 in the score ? lol Edited September 16, 2006 by kartel
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