Problems with Vista 64-bit?

No, sorry about the confusion. My original problem was that Dell had not issued a 32-bit for XP driver for my wireless card, forcing me to keep utilizing Vista 64-bit whenever I wanted to use my wireless card in Windows based applications (games, instant messenger, whatever). When Dell finally released a 32-bit driver for XP, I immediately formatted, and loaded XP. 32-bit and 64-bit does not refer to hardware outside of the CPU and motherboard. Something about the number of traces on the board to transmit data. Alot of newer peripheral hardware (NIC, graphic cards, sound card, etc, etc) are being released with both 32-bit drivers, and 64-bit drivers. Which one you choose depends upon your operating system. And remember when you are choosing, Vista comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit. There is also a 64-bit XP, but it didn't sell all that well. I prefer XP because most of my games are on the older side, and Vista doesn't tolerate legacy (older) software all that well in my experience. Also, in the case of Splinter Cell, the disk copy protection software will not work on a 64-bit operating system. And good luck in trying to get Ubisoft to release a patch for them. I was told that since Chaos Theory was sooo old, they didn't see any need to continue to support the game. Jerks.

 

Just running the 32-bit driver in XP. And I've heard that there are conflicts in running both a 32-bit OS and a 64-bit OS on the same system. I can say, however, that my machine has been dual-booted with Windows XP 32-bit and Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit for about four months now with no problems. My understanding is that since Windows and Linux use such different languages, a Windows-based OS cannot see a Linux-base OS, even if they are in different partitions of the same hard drive. I know I can access my XP partition through my Ubuntu OS, but not the other way around. My XP OS sees the partition holding the Ubuntu, but cannot read it. Something about how the file systems are written to the hard-drive, from what I hear. I know I love the Ubuntu for it's stability and speed, and for all the extra open-source goodies that are available.