Bye bye vista - Page 2

**Jam** · #16 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by justingh

hmmmm.... seems like my thread has been hijacked lol! In response to my origional post and the replies to it, the machine i was refering to at the time has sice been renegated to the shed to gather dust. I have gone back to my laptop which runs windows vista (impossible almost to get xp to work on it) and vista seems at the moment to be performing quite well, especially since ive used windows readyboost! but im still gonna run a virtual linux OS but its just choosing which one. Im not too sure i like ubuntu. But i do quite like the look of PCLINUX

oops! yeah back to windows...
Why do you say its almost impossible to get XP to work on it for???
Surly if Vista is working fine on it, then XP should be no problem

**Mr Pickles** · #17 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 11:19 AM

Well basically the reasons are that the laptop uses HD-Audio drivers, which are in two parts the chipset drivers and the realtek drivers. These install automatically when installing vista but not when installing xp. I have downloaded the chipset drivers and then added the realtek drivers and still no joy. This is a common problem with this laptop and many people have not managed to install XP successfuly. I have looked on loads of forums and even a dedicated ADVENT forum and still no luck. I reckon all in all i have spent about 40 hours trying to get this to work. There are also other issues aswell. It seems advent really dont want you to use xp with this model.

**Jam** · #18 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 12:17 PM

ahh that kinda sucks a bit then... Still, looking at your spec, I'm guessing it runs okay huh?

**Ash** · #19 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 05:09 PM

I had similar problems with HD Audio, but I got it sorted. Did you download and install the MS-provided driver first?

**Mr Pickles** · #20 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 05:15 PM

i did indeed. spent so much time gettin frustrated over this issue and had to keep vista. Im actually quite beggining to like it, when it works that is.

DB6150 · #21 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 01:23 AM

i dont see why i have many issues with vista , ive had 8 bluescreens on vista! loads of sdriver issues , and i just want to install a 10 yr old printer....wth?

Windows Guru · #22 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 04:49 PM

Then you are very lucky, but when did you get vista its alot better now then it was I havent had any problems with it lately, but i did get a bsod once when building another system in august.

**Jam** · #23 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 06:27 PM

8 blue screens huh? Thats not bad at all! I think I only had 5!
I don't know... some of my mates are on Vista and they have had no problems.. but I had no end of problems..

DB6150 · #24 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Computer

Then you are very lucky, but when did you get vista its alot better now then it was I havent had any problems with it lately, but i did get a bsod once when building another system in august.

In november on my personal machine , but ive used it at church for over a year

**Thaylok** · #25 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 12:57 AM

When i started the beta, and after the official release, I have yet to have a BSoD. It's stable in and of itself. This is if you have hardware that can handle it.

If your system is "compatible" or questionable, you can expect to have problems with drivers, causing BSoD's.

MS has been in hot water for their Vista Capable and Vista Ready confusing/misleading advertising.

Windows Guru · #26 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 05:18 PM

It was a brand new dvd burner trust me all of my hardware can handle vista no problem.

**Thaylok** · #27 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 06:16 PM

The hardware, yes, but did the manufacturer make the drivers properly. Think Whql stuff for XP. Some manufacturers will provide a driver for their hardware, but not have it go through the certification process. Sometimes it is GREAT, others it is questionable. Vista by itself is rather stable. The drivers (which was my point), are not always as stable w/ vista. Thus, causing some Blue Screens.

Other than that if the hardware is bad (yes even NEW stuff sometimes is bad), it will Blue Screen .

Windows Guru · #28 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 06:35 PM

Well since the drive is in my system now and works flawlessly after a few ms updates I will say that my drive isnt bad.

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