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Who wants Vista.
Hello, Thinking on installing Vista Home Premium on my system (Abit BE7 with PIV 3.06GB (O/C'd to 3.5GB), 1GB Ram) when it's released in a week or so, I have run the Vista upgrade advisor and this has said that my HPT372 Raid controller on my 4 year old ABit BE7 will not run. I have had a look on the Abit and

EW 64 Bit speed? Is EW written for 64 bit multicore cpu?
Just visiting the Dell forums you can see a ton of users very upset they haven't gotten their Vista DVD's right away as they were promised ::rollseyes:: of hardware working, some Linux user will say I'm using a stupid version and should run this Distro instead or just plain blame things outside of my control.

More Bad news...M$ to delay Vista further?
I will also add that not all Macs can run Windows out of the box and some can only run it in an emulator, take the G5 Macs that are still for sale by Apple. I don't run OS X on my Intel Mac. I run Windows XP, and soon, Vista. My hardware is great hardware, and I don't deserve it. And my OS is a great OS,

About my 8 Vista computer
Will they be "suspicious" about me modifying my hardware all the time? (I will have to call them almost every month) Personally, I believe someone who has to activation as a method of validating installations of OS X. This is simply not needed with OS X, since OS X will only run on a single machine: An Apple.

Dual boot 32 and 64 bit vista
What I'm looking for in Vista is a secure OS that gives me more bang for my hardware buck. Every OS X upgrade runs faster, the faster Finder in Tiger for example, will Vista be the same? I very much doubt it. And for what? If the underlying changes aren't evident to the end user, what's the point, improved security

Windows Vista- maintaining performance over time?
My scanner is on the far end of that though - it's about 3 years old. There is the possibilty that the hardware is so similar to more current models that Epson will find it within reason to do the drivers for the entire line. As for your Creative x-Fi, I'd be blown away if Creative doesn't do drivers for Vista.

- Shatner Leaks Trek XI Details
John Orion wrote: I guess you got lucky with your hardware .. Not at all. I took the trouble to make sure that my hardware would work with Vista before installing .... I certainly don't claim that everybody's present computer will run Vista at all, let alone well. But being "pretty risky" has nothing to do with it.

New Inspiron 530 with Vista Home Premium -- some first observations
Finally, those programs that absolutely insist on being run as an administrator. These will generally work, but the workarounds often require you to turn I am building another computer and want to use dual boot xp 64 and vista 64. My big question is should I use 64? I have a lot of software that cost me a lot

Linux newbee - Why won't linux recognize my hardware
All the things I need or want to run on my computers run fine on XP. So to me, Vista is no big deal. Some day I will undoubtedly buy a new computer, As long as an OS properly runs on my hardware, reads my text files, my iPod, my Palm and my Alphasmart (as Jesper says, "the apps", it's OK with me.

Good news regarding Vista Beta 2
I have run the Windows Vista upgrade Advsior and it tells me that i can run Windows areo and all the other features in Premium edition will this be correct it will all Who do I see and complain to when both these MS supplied tools told me my hardware was fine, only to find out later that it simply wasn't true?

Appalling Vista
But most of my hardware tends to be very high end and it doesn't seem to work correctly. Here's a hardware list. ....Promise SuperTRAK SX6000 RAID controller. .... Unfortunately, Linux will run very slow on Vista. Vista will try to starve the VM of memory as long as possible. It will make all kinds of nasty warning

Media Center not playing anything well on Vista Ultimate 64
But then all my hardware is supported. There is a lot that isn't. And with Vista just around the corner, there is no motivation for venders to write and deployment on my x64 box. You can also run more memory. If you have a 64-bit capable system, I would just wait for Vista. I have it in Beta, and it will be

Vista doesn't like Firefox ..
If DELL/HP/etc doesn't support anything XP by then, can I build my own PC to the specs where each and every hardware component is fully compatible with XP and drivers exists for XP?? I've heard some Bios manufactures are in bed with Microsoft and some newer Motherboards will only run on Vista?

What are your thoughts on Vista?
All that's needed is to download and run the correct single installer file for your version of Linux. It will go off, identify and resolve any dependencies, Unfortunately it is only for a 64bit OS, and my hardware does not support the 64bit Ubuntu distro. Without sound I cannot use it for 3 of my primary uses.

M$ Vista
My new SATA 2 harddisk, They says they can work for over 5 years. But for overheating, a few hours will produce error. The 5 year peiod is only good for careful They can run all program in good condition. For games, they get better quality. Screen is more fine than Vista Ultimate 32. Their speed is not slow.

Anyone able to run Vista successfully?
First of all, SHE not, he, and I did do research to find out what my computer needed in order to run Vista. I have the information. Want to know what it says? You can at least try it out first with a live CD and see if it will work with your hardware. You dont need a faulty Upgrade Adviser.

European release date of Tomb Raider: Anniversary unveiled
I wish I could put it on my new computer but no drivers for my hardware for WXP, have searched everywhere. The only bad thing is that it doesn't support DX10, only Vista does, so WXP will not be a system for future games, sadly. What an unbelievably stupid statement, if XP is the dogs danglys then why aren't there

Crysis delay
I bet it won't run on my PC. <g> I better check my locals and see when it's slated to go retail then :) I probably won't buy it at least till the first patch is released ;) LOL Your machine will run Legend or the Demo, right? I bet it'll run TRA if it does. It'll run Legend, yeah. But it won't run Windows Vista and

What do YOU expect from Vista SP1 ??
work.ok> wrote: I was just checking which of my hardware will be compatible with vista, and some of my hardware will be, but one of my newer pieces isn't, Plus many people will need to get a new computer to run it with it's full features, and many people will now need to update their computers periphials.

More linux vs windows crud - was Windows Vista and 16-bit DOS ...
My point about waiting for the service packs still stands. If it were me, I might look at my hardware vendor's web site to see if Vista has been tested with your My understanding is that this comes in a couple of flavors. A certain level of computer horsepower is required for Vista to run in a limited fashion.