WOW - could this be the new Win 98?

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Having spent a small fortune on Vista Ultimate, plus the cost of upgrading
hardware (even my HP printer has no drivers for it) and buying all new Vista
compatible applications, I did a clean install and love the experience.

Until that is, my first blue screen of death experience since I put Win 98
in the bin - now that is WOW. And the PC just hangs whenever it wants to –
no CTR+ALR+DEL recovery option here just a total hang-up requiring a re-boot.

After a stable life with 2000 Pro and XP, I can not believe this OS is so
flaky and expensive to maintain.

What can one do to make it stable?
 
rene said:
Having spent a small fortune on Vista Ultimate, plus the cost of upgrading
hardware (even my HP printer has no drivers for it) and buying all new Vista
compatible applications, I did a clean install and love the experience.

Until that is, my first blue screen of death experience since I put Win 98
in the bin - now that is WOW. And the PC just hangs whenever it wants to -
no CTR+ALR+DEL recovery option here just a total hang-up requiring a re-boot.

After a stable life with 2000 Pro and XP, I can not believe this OS is so
flaky and expensive to maintain.

What can one do to make it stable?
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I suppose one could wait for SP1 and hope.
Maybe you can get a refund and go back to XP until the bugs are out of Vista
 
Well, if you never got a BSOD under 2000 or XP, you just weren't trying hard
enough !

What's you hardware specs ? The normal answer is, BSOD are mostly driver
issues, though could be due to faulty memory or overheating. But most likely
driver issues.

What were you doing that earned you a BSOD ? Details..we need more details.
Then we can start making up all kinds of answers
 
rene said:
Having spent a small fortune on Vista Ultimate, plus the cost of upgrading
hardware (even my HP printer has no drivers for it) and buying all new Vista
compatible applications, I did a clean install and love the experience.

Until that is, my first blue screen of death experience since I put Win 98
in the bin - now that is WOW. And the PC just hangs whenever it wants to –
no CTR+ALR+DEL recovery option here just a total hang-up requiring a re-boot.

After a stable life with 2000 Pro and XP, I can not believe this OS is so
flaky and expensive to maintain.

What can one do to make it stable?
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Install drivers that actually work.
Check that your newly upgraded hardware works.

Alun Harford
 
If you got a blue screen, you probably have bad drivers.
Make sure you have the latest Vista drivers for all your hardware.
If you have any hardware that does not have Vista drivers, remove it
and see what happens.
 
Jupiter Jones said:
If you got a blue screen, you probably have bad drivers.
Make sure you have the latest Vista drivers for all your hardware.
If you have any hardware that does not have Vista drivers, remove it and
see what happens.
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There should be an error in the event logs corresponding to the BSOD. Copy
and paste the details back here and maybe we can help you.
 
Having spent a small fortune on Vista Ultimate, plus the cost of upgrading
hardware (even my HP printer has no drivers for it) and buying all new Vista
compatible applications, I did a clean install and love the experience.

Until that is, my first blue screen of death experience since I put Win 98
in the bin - now that is WOW. And the PC just hangs whenever it wants to –
no CTR+ALR+DEL recovery option here just a total hang-up requiring a re-boot.

After a stable life with 2000 Pro and XP, I can not believe this OS is so
flaky and expensive to maintain.

What can one do to make it stable?
Click to expand...

I can think of at least two options:

1) wait for SP1 (at least - maybe even SP2)

2) scrap it and install Linux.
 
rene said:
Having spent a small fortune on Vista Ultimate, plus the cost of upgrading
hardware (even my HP printer has no drivers for it) and buying all new
Vista
compatible applications, I did a clean install and love the experience.

Until that is, my first blue screen of death experience since I put Win 98
in the bin - now that is WOW. And the PC just hangs whenever it wants
to –
no CTR+ALR+DEL recovery option here just a total hang-up requiring a
re-boot.

After a stable life with 2000 Pro and XP, I can not believe this OS is so
flaky and expensive to maintain.

What can one do to make it stable?
Click to expand...

Incompatible hardware, drivers and/or BIOS issues.
 
rene said:
Having spent a small fortune on Vista Ultimate, plus the cost of upgrading
hardware (even my HP printer has no drivers for it) and buying all new
Vista
compatible applications, I did a clean install and love the experience.

Until that is, my first blue screen of death experience since I put Win 98
in the bin - now that is WOW. And the PC just hangs whenever it wants
to –
no CTR+ALR+DEL recovery option here just a total hang-up requiring a
re-boot.

After a stable life with 2000 Pro and XP, I can not believe this OS is so
flaky and expensive to maintain.

What can one do to make it stable?
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Additionally if you are serious about wanting help, and not just trolling,
then give some specifics such as: What is the computer, the motherboard, the
configuration, memory amount and type, drives and how they are configured,
where is Vista installed, what version of Vista, how was it installed -
clean install or upgrade, what is the hardware, what drivers is it using,
what is the BSOD message, verbatim. When did it happen? What changes did
you make to the system before this happened?

Making Good Newsgroup Posts
 
This appears to be a hardware issue.
Waiting for a service pack to fix this issue is probably pointless
since the service pack is not normally intended to solve hardware
issues.
The better option is to determine the cause so it can be resolved.
 
There should be an error in the event logs corresponding to the BSOD. Copy
and paste the details back here and maybe we can help you.
 
ray said:
I can think of at least two options:

1) wait for SP1 (at least - maybe even SP2)

2) scrap it and install Linux.
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My wife bought a Toshiba laptop with Vista
Basic installed, after a couple of months we are both getting totally
hacked off with the "operating system" - I'm way out of date as I
haven't changed from Win98 SE on the desktop machine. We contacted
the local computer store in Monmouth who suggested that they could
install Windows XP Home for £80, I'm loath to spend that sort of money -
is XP any better ?
We don't have broadband out here in the sticks so can't use some of the
more fancy functions of Vista, the slug like performance of this laptop
with 512 Megs of RAM is dreadful, trying to get the machine to shut
down at night is pointless - come back at 0800 and its still playing
with itself.
Any advise would be very gratefully received
Going Hairless of Herefordshire
 
Slowchordchanger said:
My wife bought a Toshiba laptop with Vista
Basic installed, after a couple of months we are both getting totally
hacked off with the "operating system" - I'm way out of date as I
haven't changed from Win98 SE on the desktop machine. We contacted
the local computer store in Monmouth who suggested that they could
install Windows XP Home for £80, I'm loath to spend that sort of money -
is XP any better ?
We don't have broadband out here in the sticks so can't use some of the
more fancy functions of Vista, the slug like performance of this laptop
with 512 Megs of RAM is dreadful, trying to get the machine to shut
down at night is pointless - come back at 0800 and its still playing
with itself.
Any advise would be very gratefully received
Going Hairless of Herefordshire
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Easiest thing to do would be to increase your system RAM and use a 2gig
or more flash drive as a ready boost. You can also immediately lower
your theme setting to "windows classic".
Frank
 
Vista Basic is a very poor choice for any computer and 512 Megs of RAM may make vista work, but it
wont run, it walks.
The real minimum RAM for Vista is 1 GB
 
You would probably be a lot happier with Windows XP and it will work very
well with 512 ram. You will wonder why you waited a couple of months to
make the change. There is no guarantee that your computer will work any
better by staying with Vista and adding more ram. Although it must work
alright on some computers, many people are not very happy with it. I
would advise you to try one of the Linux distros, but I do not know what
your circumstance are there.
 
I can think of at least two options:

1) wait for SP1 (at least - maybe even SP2)

2) scrap it and install Linux.
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I've installed Vista on a couple of PCs with excellent results. I also
purchased a Dell XPS 410 preloaded with Vista ultimate at home and a
Dell OptiPlex 745 at work with Ultimate too. Not a single issue. In my
experience, Windows Vista is the best Windows ever. Some software
updates are available but I don't think anybody has to wait until SP1,
Vista is top notch as it is.
 
Bill said:
You would probably be a lot happier with Windows XP and it will work very
well with 512 ram. You will wonder why you waited a couple of months to
make the change. There is no guarantee that your computer will work any
better by staying with Vista and adding more ram. Although it must work
alright on some computers, many people are not very happy with it. I
would advise you to try one of the Linux distros, but I do not know what
your circumstance are there.
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Are you currently running any version of Vista?
Frank
 
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