Windows Vista is no go
Sunday, 1 October 2006 2:01 am , 1 comments

I have been trying to get Vista to work on my beefed up PC laptop for over 2 hours now. All this effort went into trying to get Vista to work with my nVidia Go 6800 (256MB Ram ) card. Through the Windows Update system it found it online, downloaded it ( the Vista driver, that is), but no go. Tried a gazillion other from various sites ( including nVidia's ), still no go. Vista doesn't suport its own drivers. Go figure. In addition to that, everytime Vista reboots ( which is every 30 minutes, for one reason or another ), the audio driver 'crashes' and Vista supposedly is pulling some magic to figure out why. It fails every single time.

I hated when Windows had to reboot for whatever reason, I hate it even more now that Vista, apparently, needs to reboot more often than Windows freaking three dot one. This is Vista RC 1 RTM, latest build there is. This is the build that's going to end up in the final cds/dvds, it seems. I am seriously not amused. I am not going to write about the weird UI issues, the stupid warnings whenever I try to execute any app whatsoever, the incosistencies and, especially, the feeling that nothing changed, it just got a facelift.

Vista is going bye bye tomorrow. Leopard, I am so looking forward to hear you roar..

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  1. # Λύσιππος 1/10/2006 5:05

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    Let's go back to the good old days of Sinclair Spectrum!

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