No Improvement in RC1 since Beta 2

[Guest]

Well just as I suspected... MS didnt touch a darn thing since Beta 2. The
only things I see different are visual improvments. RC1 hangs just like Beta
2 and pre-rc1. In fact RC1 hangs even worse than pre-rc1. Its rediculous. I
cant even use rc1 without waiting 10-15 minutes for a program to respoind
when I open it or change any setting. Whats the use... I could sit here for
an hour waiting for the system to respond from start up to using maybe 2
programs to shut down. This thing shouldnt even be considered a reliese
canidate if it doesnt even support a 1 year old motherboard.

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[Andre Da Costa [ActiveWin]]

Could you give us an idea of your system specs? I have seen significant
improvements over past builds, even the recent Pre-RC1, RC1 installed in 42
mins down from 71 mins. The best I can recommend is to send in Feedback
using the following link:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=55160

 

[Guest]

I had the same experience here as well. All of the beta's and updates thru
rc1 seemed to have a constant progressive track, with a few bumps here and
there. I really think microsoft has come a long way, and look forward to
receiving my final windows vista ultimate key in 4-6 months.

What does vista list your current system rating?

Are you using the drivers that came with the vista install, or did you
download any from another site?

Have you unplugged all non essential devices from the computer during
install setup?
ie. game devices, video camera's web cam's, ir devices, printers, etc.

And as far as a 1 year old motherboard, are you sure its only 1 year old? or
did you buy it from a retail site that had it on a shelf. I have seen some
new motherboards at places like bestbuy, compusa and a few mom and pop shops
that were almost 2-3 years old sitting on the shelf collecting dust just
waiting for someone to buy an elcheapo..

 

[Mark]

I agree, I have seen great improvements in both the 32 and 64 bit versions.
Not only visual but speed wise as well.

 

[MICHAEL]

The RC1 upgrade install from 5552 on my laptop
took 47 minutes. The upgrade installs always take
longer.

The RC1 clean install I did on a desktop took
21 minutes.

Those are quick times.

A failed upgrade install from Beta2 to 5536 took
82 minutes to get failure.

I would imagine most upgrade installs from
WinXP will take quite a long time.

A word of caution on the installs, especially
the upgrade installs. There several times when
it looks like nothing is happening, and you may not
even see any disk activity. Be patient, touch nothing.


-Michael

 

[Sascha Benjamin Jazbec]

I cannot believe this, or something definetely went wrong with your install.

Like all others are saying :

RC1 is fast and a lot more stable than all before, even on a very old Athlon
1000 MhZ it runs very good. RAM is more important to Vistas Performance
than CPU GhZ.

On my main PC Duron 1800/1GB/Geforce6200/Via Chipset it runs as fast as XP
Pro.

Have you done a update from a previous Vista build?
Do yourself a favor and try to do a CLEAN install one more time.
SBJ

 

[Bchat]

I tried to upgrade from WinXP Home SP2 three (3) times - no good - did a
clean install, after formatting drive - no problems
RC1 seems better to me - your opinion may vary

 

[Conor]

Well just as I suspected... MS didnt touch a darn thing since Beta 2. The
only things I see different are visual improvments.

You must be blind.

 

[Guest]

Well just as I suspected... MS didnt touch a darn thing since Beta 2. The
only things I see different are visual improvments. RC1 hangs just like Beta
2 and pre-rc1. In fact RC1 hangs even worse than pre-rc1. Its rediculous. I
cant even use rc1 without waiting 10-15 minutes for a program to respoind
when I open it or change any setting. Whats the use... I could sit here for
an hour waiting for the system to respond from start up to using maybe 2
programs to shut down. This thing shouldnt even be considered a reliese
canidate if it doesnt even support a 1 year old motherboard.

Unplug everything from your computer except CPU, memory and HDD and try
again, if it runs fine put another piece in (ie. soundcard) and try
again, proceed until you find the a faulty part.
If it still does not work then check your memory with memtest86, check
for upgrades for the BIOS. If everything is still fine then you have a
problem, might be your mobo, CPU or Vista, but it will be really hard to
tell.

 

[Dave B.]

A "1 year old motherboard" says nothing about your system, You could have a
brand new motherboard, that would still say nothing. CPU? RAM? Video?

 

[Guest]

Well just as I suspected... MS didnt touch a darn thing since Beta 2. The
only things I see different are visual improvments. RC1 hangs just like Beta
2 and pre-rc1.

You're a troll

 

[Guest]

Well ever since I had the issue of constant hangs in Beta 2 I tryed
installing many differant times. I have installed pre-rc1 many different
times as well. I installed both beta 2 and pre-rc1 with everyting unplugged.
Just motherboard, hard drive and dvd rom drive. Once it was installed just
the mobo and hard drive and keyboard and mouse and the monitor was connected
to on board graphics. No differance. There is an issue with my motherboard
which is 1 year old yes it is. The year it was made was in 2005 and it has
original BIOS which is oct of 2005 I believe. I have tryed to upgrade to the
new bios but everytime i try it doesnt burn correctly and leaves my system
dead so I have to revert back to original bios. I have sent feedback to MS
but have not heard anything. I have also sent an email to ECS and have not
heard anything from them either.
I have tryed installing all versions of vista as a clean install on a
separate HDD and I have also tryed upgrading a previous version to a newer.
They all act the same. OH and installs always go without a hitch. THe only
time I see a problem is when it is installed and running. The first time I
see a hang is when rc1 is checking system performance on the first run. It
hangs for 10 minutes when you see the "enhanced security" and the logo... its
about halfway through. It does not hang in safe mode. SO what is going on I
dont know. THere is a HDD controller issue or driver issue of something. It
is on the motherboard I know that much. THere still is no driver for my
onboard sound so i dont install any old drivers. Im running all the drivers
that vista installs. When I check the device manager everyting but my sound
is installed. I check to see if the system has detected any problems and it
has not. It thinks everyting is fine and there are no problems and everyting
is installed. USB ANd all that junk work. EVERYTHING WORKS. BUT I have
hangging on everything. Its so annoying it is UNusable.
I would appreciate any and all feedback guys. I want to get this figured out
so that I can actually beta test this darn thing which I have not been able
to do since beta 2 came out. My main reason to beta test vista is to insure
that the final product will work on my computer and so far it will not.
I say that I havent noticed a darn thing improved on vista b/c well I cant
use it so I cant notice any improvments. All I have seen in vista so far is
it hangs anytime I launch anything. IN example Solitare. Takes 10 minutes to
open and close it.

Here is the system specs...

ECS RC410L/800-M V2 Motherboard
P4 2.8Ghz With Hyperthreading enabled.
512MB DDR2 Ram, used to be 1G until I found once of my sticks bad.
nVIDIA GeForce 6600 PCI-E with 128MB DDR2
ATA133 HDD 80GB Samsung -Vista
SATA HDD 80GB Seagate -XP
350W ANtec PSU
NEC DVD-RW
TSSTcorp CD-RW
Microsoft Wireless keyboard and mouse.

 

[Guest]

try installing vista on the SATA Drive not the ATA133 too slow

<DIV>&quot;PimpTwzt&quot; &lt;[email protected]&gt; wrote

 

[Vlad \(DarkTrooper\)]

ECS RC410L/800-M V2 Motherboard

Elitegroup? Bugagagaga! :_))))) Where users always found this scrap? On the
junkyard?
Try to throw your motherboard into the window, and buy good one - MSI, Asus,
Intel, DFI. At least - Asrock.

512MB DDR2 Ram, used to be 1G until I found once of my sticks bad.

Well, well. Another junkyard stuff?

Try to buy good hardware - and THEN criticize OS.