Comments on: The Wow Starts Now?

By: james

james — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:08:59 +0000

hey another BSOD cause on Vista, there is a certain combo which leads to BSOD

Vista + Nforce4 Serial ATA controller + Ipod = BSOD for “long transfers” such as videos or photos…

and all the companies blame each other… :(

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:03:10 +0000

Funny you say that Vista doesn’t like AMD cpu’s, Ed, because I happen to be typing this on a Vista machine with an AMD X2 38000+. System is stable as a rock, and highly responsive, too.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 06 May 2007 18:39:31 +0000

Vista doesnt like amd cpu’s, and nvidia nforce drivers barely came out for vista. It runs fine all three of my laptops no bsods no freezes, on a core duo on nvidia 7300, core 2 duo on intel 945 video, and core duo on nvidia 7600 they all run fine and all of them outperform my friends amd fx on benchmarking. My experience with vista is that its picky with drivers and doesnt like non vista drivers also had problems with my friends amd fx nvidia sli motherboard but later fixed with drivers. Try looking for updates on your board.

By: tsaw

tsaw — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:09:24 +0000

Chris – please tell me about that kewl clock on the top of the video!
I WANT ONE BAD!

By: sjc1963

sjc1963 — Fri, 04 May 2007 21:02:05 +0000

I bought and installed Vista Home Basic on January 31st and within a week I had to reinstall it 3 times because after installing my programs it would start to BSOD and not allow me to even getting to Vista. I found out that it was a certain program and since I stopped using it I haven’t had too much trouble with BSODS. I also disabled a lot of stuff and got the speed up to more than acceptable. Though, since then I’ve added more RAM, got a faster HD (SATA from IDE) and now using an 1GB flash drive with Readyboost as well..

By: Matt Hartley

Matt Hartley — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:51:17 +0000

Yeah man, the more I look into it, the more I am saying that ATI is going to be more Vista friendly thus far as nividia is more aligned with XP and Linux right now. Basically, whether you realize it or not, you have just stepped over to the love/hate relationship I have with Ubuntu. When it sucks, it sucks hard. But then for work, I have to use Windows for some specialty software reason (in a VM of course) and all the reasons I took the time to learn more about Ubuntu came rushing back to me. I would say the same applies between Vista and XP. Vista is just more secure than XP.

So here is my take. Act like a Linux user here. Not saying you ought to grow a ponytail and an attitude, rather look at what hardware is going to work the best based on this OS’ needs. I would examine my soundcard, video card and my all-in-one peripherals. Verify and if need be, and switch components known to better work with Vista.

Honestly, I can still not get my Vista bluetooth supported driver to install, but would also point out that it worked in Dapper, failed in Edgy and is working again in Feisty – so yeah, “stuff” happens.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:29:49 +0000

When I realized I became conditioned to accept sub-par software, I switched. Damn, I sound like one of those cheesy ads now.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:24:23 +0000

You say that you’re not using off-brand products, but then in the second sentence you say that you’re using a custom built whatever. I would think that something custom built would have more problems. It shouldn’t, but it could. Just my two cents.

By: Alijah Green

Alijah Green — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:47:21 +0000

Almost forgot to mention but when changing your boot sequence what OS was on the USB drive maybe XP. Also you never explained what you were doing pryor to you getting the blue screen. BSOD always come from hardware failure so that is telling something, So get off your Vista bashing party

By: Alijah Green

Alijah Green — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:35:56 +0000

I have never had a BSOD on my Vista machine. I built my desktop from scratch. I did research first before jumping into the water. I am pretty sure it is your motherboard giving you the problem and if you are using IDE cable hard drive then your performance will not be all that great.

if your having problems such as slow performance crashing. its your fault for buying from a vendor. I too was once a fool, but never again. Really though if you call yourself a Geek then why would you buy when you know its better to build.

By: Noitall

Noitall — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:35:30 +0000

Oh I forgot. Really funny re the beatiful appearance of BSOD in Vista. Too true!

By: Noitall

Noitall — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:33:34 +0000

No kidding, Vista sucks. I had about 5 BSODs in the first two weeks, while working, not booting. On a new, factory installed Vista box too! Way more than XP, even tho I lost XP in a failed antivirus uninstall. Ugly!
PS When are you going to accept and embrace your masocism? ;-)

By: Brandon Paddock

Brandon Paddock — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:56:57 +0000

Dude, your machine is HOSED. That’s definitely not Vista… I’ve seen single-proc P4s run Vista faster than that.

By: Brandon Paddock

Brandon Paddock — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:48:00 +0000

Whoa, I didn’t even know those things still existed =P

Actually, there will always be blue screens as long as there’s faulty hardware. What was the error code it showed you?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:06:51 +0000

Opps I meant I have a 7900 GT. My bad.