Vista Install Experience

[Guest]

I just wanted to let folks know what my experience was. The configuration of
my PC is

Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 with the nForce4 chipset
AMD 64 3500
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA GFORCE 6600
2xHaupage PVR-500MCE
RAID 0 w/2x300GB SATA Harddrive for Data Storage
80 GB SATA Harddrive for OS

Initially, Never had RAID configurations before, loaded my Vista like I
would load XP on a seperate partition. Bad mistake, it ruined the boot
config file and my PC would not boot up. Read the message board about RAID
drivers, started again, but it would error out. Talked to my PC makers and
they suggested I unplug my RAID HD and install Vista on the OS HD. Well this
time it worked, everything just about installed. I had to instal Nforce
drivers after the install seperately. Everything seemed to be loaded. But
Vista was running really slow, about 4x slower than running XP. The final
thing that finally turned me off of Vista was I could not figure out why my
network card was not working. Vista installed the drivers and it said it was
working. But all I got from it was a limited connection. The connection
wizard did not see my router. It took me a day before I finally gave up on
Vista and wiped my HD to install XP. Ofcourse XP recognized just about
everything and the network was recognized right away. I was able to download
any other drivers and updates.

So my experience was bad. Now I am turned off of getting Vista when it
comes out, but rather wait until it has been out there before I upgrade.
Luckily I did save my data on the RAIDed drives so I was ok with wiping the
HD.

Microsoft definitely need to make installation easier. I have no clue why
they didn't have RAID support on installation.

Andy

 

[Guest]

Main,,do u kown why it,s Called a BETA?
CUs IT,S NOT FINISHED....U have a Car who Still needs One Whell a Blink
light and so on....what did u ekspect...Vista is so much beta it,s even A car
without all 4 whels no sterring at all and only 2 Cylinders Working...

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Be sure to post this to MS at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/sentiments/default.mspx
MS does not monitor this newsgroup.

 

[Guest]

Man, calm down. I was just teling about my experience and yes I know it is
BETA, but it is BETA 2 and I did talk to the microsoft folks at tech shows
that said this was practically pre-release. From the experience I went
through, it felt more like a BETA 1 release. Not seomthing that will be good
to go by January (November for Industry).

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Think about "practically pre-release."

I have to chuckle at phrasing like that.

It's all practically pre-release until it is released.

All the same, I'm glad you're enjoying your Vista pre-experience.

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

Marketing people... "Sure! No problem! It will be ready on time! Of
course that will work!"

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Why its nearly pre-ready!

Marketing people... "Sure! No problem! It will be ready on time! Of
course that will work!"

 

[Guest]

My set up is very similar to HD-150 ,though I installed Vista on one drive
(not RAID)using another for my XP OS.This way I can select the OS from
BIOS,checking for updated Vista drivers periodically .I have no problem
with the network card.One question I have is to what Nvidia drivers he loaded
,as the ones on the Nvidia site are not for that Mobo.
I will agree that my XP OS runs noticably faster than Vista (64 bit or 32
bit ,I've tried both),but as Colin says it is ,after all a Beta.I have one
comment about the Beta ,I the past I trialled Windows XP Pro 64 and found
that virtually unusable .So this doesn't doesn't raise my hopes for later
versions of Vista