Trouble with VISTA

[Guest]

I installed the Beta copy of the software, it has caused me nothing but
headaches for the past two days, it will not install my virus software, nor
would the sound drivers work, and it constantly loses internet access.

I had an IDE second hard drive on the system, and after installing VISTA it
doesn't see the second drive, therefore I can not back up my data unto that
drive without using an encloser- although I am skeptical about it even seeing
that if I bought one.

So, tell me why am I having so many problems with this OS? Could it
seriously be because I upgraded from XP to VISTA and shouldn't have?

 

[Guest]

I'll try and help with some of the problems.

1. Vista may change drive letters during the installation process. I assume
you did install Vista on a seperate partition or drive to the existing XP(?)
system. if you did, Vista should have created a dual-boot system for you
which, as you boot up, gives you the choice of selecting Vista or the
previous OS ('Legacy'). Some people have reported that the choice was on the
screen for so short a time that they coudn't react to it. Download
VistaBootPro from vistabootpro.org/ and run it it. You should be able to sort
out your boot problems with that, including the default time that the choice
remains on the boot screen.
2. Old AV progs won't work with Vista. These do - Avast (Home version is
free); AVG (1 month trial free maybe more; Trend Micro PC-cillin free trial.
I dislike the latter 'cos it occupies loads of cpu during startup.
3. What sound do you have? Again, you may have to install the latest beta
drivers for it.
Finally tell us what version of Vista you installed and whether it is 32bit
or 64 bit. What is/was the previous operating system and how the hard drives
were configured before the recent installation. What is your sound system etc
etc. The more we know, the more we can help.
Colin

 

[Guest]

I installed, activate, update ,register my copy of Windows Vista RC1 and was
able to install updates from Microsoft site. But after 20 minutes of doing
those I start receiving errors that my Windows Vista has not been activated
and start experiencing the Blue screen and my system would restarting after
performing dumps.

What should do I?

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Personally I would reinstall it with a clean install but there are better
advisors than me around here. I'd suggest you create a fresh thread to catch
their eye if you don't want to re-install. Colin