I loaded W7 BETA on my desktop computer at home (after BACKING UP and creating a RESTORE DISK, of course), and I am REAL happy with it. I have had only ONE glitch using IE8 and the "Windows Mail" isn't easy to figure out, but I suspect Microsoft will have this all worked out soon, or when W7 is released.
Windows XP's Days are Really Numbered Now
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The original drive in the system was a SATA 40gb w/XP on it. It will not let you write the Vista 64bit over the 32bit O/S. (I kinda knew this but tried anyways) No biggie, I need to do a clean install. So I found 4 cheap Seagate 150gb 10K rpm hard drives and the board has a raid controller. With four drives you get more bandwidth out of it, not to mention better response time with raid 0. I'm going for performance not fault tolerance.
Now for the install, First time I tried several times. I got a BSOD Page_fault_in_Nonpaged_area. MS technet says the fix for it is in SP1. The disk I got burned didn't have SP1. Ok, got another disk burned with SP1 on it.
Here I go again, Finally it starts loading but stops and BSOD on me again. Back to technet and look up iastorv.sys file. Great, Vista doesn't like my raid configuration. Dug a little deeper and found a 64 bit driver for it and you have to load it right at the beginning of the O/S. Did that but now I continue to get hard drives failures right at completing installation or after, at windows sets up your computer.
So now I'm trying to figure out if its a bad drive OR the driver is not working for this setup. The driver matches up with the controller but I think Vista doesn't like it.
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Not sure if its signed driver. Its a Intel controller and I would think they are passing a signed driver. I have noticed something else, when you get to the part where do you want to install windows. I create my partition and click format. It doesn't seem like its doing it. I get the hourglass for about 5 seconds and thats it. I'm wondering if its actually formatting the partition I create?
I have a signed driver = 10lb sledgehammer
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Its SATA, you can't change it to IDE/PATA. I'm going to try and see if it loads without it being in a raid config. If that doesn't work, I have a thick Vista manual I will beat it with.
I'm thinking because its not formatting, this is probably part of my problem, the other part is its Vista !!! I wish I had a copy of ghost disk. -
I don't have any unsigned drivers. I don't have any hardware that would require them.
I don't use RAID. I have a 74 gig raptor for my boot drive and a 1TB data drive. I'm not running a file server and don't care about data security so RAID is useless.
I'm running all top notch equipment. I have 4 gigs of DDR3 and zero issues. I have never BSOD'd. IE locks up once in a while but Firefox fixes that.
I'm running 32 bit vista on an $800 Gateway I bought for my office. Never a problem.
My other 64bit install is on my Gateway laptop. Again never an issue.
Maybe I'm just lucky
Linux is useless to me. I can't think of a single reason to switch to Linux. I've read scads of posts from Linux users for years over at NvNews.
Apple even more so. Apple is slowly migrating to MS anyway. They have already switched to Intel it's only a matter of time.
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