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Head Shaving, Grooming & Care => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: champ007 on August 17, 2007, 10:00:40 PM
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OK, I gotta vent :Xo!
My son is a Halo fanatic, started on the PC then the Xbox, then Bill Gates releases Halo 2 for PC. Being a big pc gamer, he purchased Halo 2 for PC with a little help from grandma. Unfortunately it only plays on Vista, well that is the multiplayer only works on vista, a little modding and the campain can play on XP pro. Anyway, being a IT guy who should know better, I decided to get him vista so he could enjoy the multiplayer part of the game. Of course he has a beefy machine, so I thought, no problem. Here is the setup: Asus a8x-s motherboard with 64bit support, AMD 64X2 3800 processor, 3.5 Gb memory, Nvidia 6800TX graphics, 80gb and 320gb sata drives.
I decided to dual boot his OS due to incompatible games he may have and picked up the Vista Home Premium 64 bit OS. Left the 80gb drive with XP pro and loaded the 320 with Vista. First problem was his NEC DVD drive, not supported. Grabbed a Lite-on DVD off the shelf and it passed. Got the os loaded, then had some a couple of freezes getting to the desktop. made it there and updated his graphics card, blue screen of death then dump file was built. rebooted and loaded update again, this time it passed. Next problem, sound not supported. No updates for the Soundmax, so I cut it off in the bios. Then the SIS965 to southbridge not supported. No luck there. Basically speaking I have spent the last 6 hours on this machine and have came to the conclusion I need to get a new motherboard, probably a processor and a updated Vid card just to run the shitty OS. If I could meet Mr Gates right night he would get the biggest Bitch Slap ever :x!
So if your thinking of Vista, do yourself a favor and just plan on buying a brand new PC with all the crap already in it, but be warned, there is not of compatibility with this OS out there!
Thanks for reading, I need a drink! dr!#k
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Yeah, I'm not a big fan of it either. I got my wife a computer that has Vista on it, mostly because the laptop was on sale for $550, though it was a 2 Gig, 64 bit dual processor. I had to disable a ton of crap just to get it to run at the speed that XP runs at. What good is a bunch of features if it takes twice as long to get something going.
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yea i know what you mean. i have a friend that got a computer off his sister and she changed it from xp to vista and he said vista isnt any faster then xp, so he going to change it back to windows xp.
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your an IT guy and you bought vista? hehe...you was asking for trouble and you knew it :) i refuse to buy such a POS ....i was a gamer but i refuse to upgrade to this POS and spend a couple grand to do it...
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your an IT guy and you bought vista? hehe...you was asking for trouble and you knew it :) i refuse to buy such a POS ....i was a gamer but i refuse to upgrade to this POS and spend a couple grand to do it...
Yea, things I do for my son. But the tequila has been great, in the morning I will just tell him "Be glad you can still boot XP!" :)
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30% cpu usage, no programs running, I'll stick to xp for a while. Vista is not user friendly, oh, and wait until you try to troubleshoot a network issue. OMFG. Been doing desktop support for 10 years, this is by far the worse OS I've ever seen. Makes me want to buy a Mac.
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Well guys gotta say thanks.
You have just convinced me not to get Vista for my new laptop,will stick to XP.
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I'm new to PC, being a "Mac" user since I was a kid.
Well, I'm trying out a Toshiba Intel Pentium Dual Core 120 gig lap top with Vista and it's shiny and flashy but sucks on many levels.... although it is 1/2 the price of a Macbook.... probably 1/4 the cost of a Macbook after they sell you the farm and the kitchen sink.
Suffering is the path to happiness they say, so I should be in the head of the line.... computer wise, at least.
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Yeah, I agree VFRWolf - Vista seems really slow. A friend of mine bought a new computer with it on & asked us to help him get on line. Well, even though it's a brand new machine it crawls along ! Really slow. I'd definitely stick to XP for the moment or go with a linux OS. Ubuntu seems pretty good.
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When I got this laptop, I had an option of getting one with Vista or XP, without a skip in beat I choose the XP simply because Vista was to new for all the bugs to be worked out.
Now here is the funny part... on the home computer where we have the printer/scanner hooked up the big computer went thru a Windows update and this disabled the scanners ability to read info from the computer.. but I hook up my laptop to the HP printer/scanner I can do everything with it.
BTW - I hate XP too, but just wished all the extras you get in your computers were not trial wear.