Vista compatibilities.

[Per Hansson]

Re: Vista compatibilities.

UAC can be disabled, it is quite easy... Then you will have to change a registery key or disable the security center because it will be popping up telling you UAC is disabled, sigh

It's a bit more difficult to make a real administrator account, but I did that too, a month later my Vista install got corrupted... I see some patches where released by MS today so maybe data corruptions issues have become smaller now...

http://www.techspot.com/news/26503-m...for-vista.html

[starfury1]

Re: Vista compatibilities.

Thanks Stevo for the feedback on it

Well, about 3 or 4 weeks ago I installed Vista for my friend using my
copy, without entering a CD key or activating it. This was to see how it went
before they actually spent the $220 on the real copy at the stores.

If I remember correctly, the period that we are allowed to use it for was 30
days before having to enter a CD key and activating it, after that the PC is

locked completely and cannot be logged in at all.... he never got to that
stage though.

Within a day, he was begging me to get rid of Vista because half his games
didn't work and his video editing software (Pinnacle 9 series)
refused to work with Vista.

I had to re-install his copy of XP back onto his PC.
It seems like Vista is full of issues at the moment.

Windows Vista Home Premium came with my Dell laptop and my favorite
games won't work with it.

I sort of vaguely remembered, I think it has to run home to billy and report thats why I wasn't sure about how long or if you get a grace period.

Anyway yeah its been cracked from what I read, but at this point seems a lot ain't interested anyway.

I guess at some point if you want to stay with M$ you are going to have to buy it.

but seems better to wait a bit and let it mature
(read as bug fixes oem drivers etc and service packs)
XP had it teething problems too

Trouble is most big makers are pushing Vista so I think you basically stuck with the home basic or (preferably) home premium version on a new box
(maybe the likes of Dell will give you an online choice of Vista or XP)
But at Hardly Normal's etc your probably going to be stuck taking a box with Vista

Id hate to be in the computer game, now guess there are a few getting grief over it...but on the plus side you get to rip it off the HDD and put XP on for a price

Like I said I probably wouldn't mind it and it probably does have some worth while improvements....
(the downside more DRM and Anti piracy crap, which is fair enough but for legit users and sellers it just creates more work I think.)

like I said no experience with it and at this point not so sure I want any

Cheers

[Newbie2]

Re: Vista compatibilities.

According to ECS the only Vista driver for that board is the RAID.
They don't have Vista drivers for anything else on the board.
- So it looks like you are safe for now.

ECS got his RAID driver, but I think he's safe with video, audio, and integrated 10/100 networking drivers coming from Vista.

I'd say he's good to go.

I have a PCCHIPS M955G (similar to ECS PM800-M2) and my PCCHIPS board had no compatibility problems with Vista. The three main drivers (video, sound, and built in 10/100 networking) were already installed by Vista. I know someone who has a ECS PM800-M2 motherboard and has no problems with Vista.

[bgavin]

Re: Vista compatibilities.

A new VISTA wrinkle: many customers (State of California, etc) are buying Vista equipped machines, saving the licenses and immediately installing XP.

Microsoft is now invalidating Vista licenses that aren't activated within a time frame....

Now there is great customer support.... this is how you say f*ck you in binary...



Oh man... the new Macs run Windows apps, VMware, Unix. I don't even own one, but I have a feeling Vista will be sinking the Microsoft ship.

[PCBONEZ]

Re: Vista compatibilities.

SIS is listing drivers for XP on their site so I wouldn't be so sure about Vista having the drivers already.

Except:
Most of the drivers aren't an SIS issue in the first place.

The LAN chip is Realtek.
So is the sound chip. (Realtek)
He's not using the SIS video, he has an add-in card.

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That pretty much leaves the basic chipset drivers for ATA and USB and ??? as the only issues. - I don't think those have changed much in the last few chipsets.

- Might get lucky..
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