[ddots-l] Re: VISTA - Don't fall into my trap.
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:42:50 +0100
Hi Mike,
The driver isn't the problem. The Motherboard and BIOS just
will not support Vista - PERIOD.
Which is a decidedly stupid statement, since I've been
running Vista on it for over a year.
It's an ATI Radeon Sapphire X1950 Pro (512MB), which not
only requires an available 45 amps on the 12 volt rail, but
a connection to the Power supply also.
The only reason I got the stupid thing was to produce better
screen shots for these sighted guys who want to look at
pictures in the Help files I author.
George.
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike C
Sent: 24 April 2007 11:34
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: VISTA - Don't fall into my trap.
George what Invidia card do you have, I may be able to send
you the correct driver.
I have the Invidia g force 7900
that was one of the things that scared me at the
begginning. Low and behold I was able to find the driver
manually at Invidia web site. My version of the driver is
as of March 2007.
While George is correct in saying that buyers be
ware, I have had very good luck in using Vista thus far, and
realizing that the auto feature doesn't work under Vista, I
think in some cases that's bettter in that you could
altimatly use the narrator to open up the CD and run the
settup of any software.
I use to find the stupid autorun feature a pain in
the you know what, as most of those autorun screens were in
accessible to blind users anyway. take for instance Sonar.
I also love Vista in that when you actually make a
video card change, Jaws doesn't crap out and give you a
video intersept maniger, it actually still works.
when considering all the security protection that
Vista so far has to offer, I'm sticking to it, and
eventually I'm sure all the bugs will be worked out.
This business of going back to XP doesn't interest
me at all.
If you remember Xp went through the same problems.
----- Original Message -----
From: George Bell
<mailto:george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 4:58 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] VISTA - Don't fall into my trap.
Cross posted, so apologies if you see multiple
copies.
Just in case anyone is thinking of upgrading their
system to VISTA, beware of making the same mistake I have.
(Even if, to you, it is a fairly new system!!)
I'd been in the Vista Beta program almost since day
one. At that time my Fujitsu Pentium PIV, 2.66GHz was
barely a year old, and one of their "current" top end
models.
All through the beta, and right up to and including
the current updated release, everything has been fine with
Vista Ultimate, except for the nVidea video card. That was
the one and only warning I got from even the latest version
of the Vista Upgrade Advisor.
And so I was delighted to get a gift of a new ATI
card, fully Vista compliant with a nice 512 MB in it.
But oh dear! The system saw the new card, but when
the system re-booted, it died.
Having spent a major part of yesterday trying to get
this super new AGP card installed, it turns out that the
Fujitsu Siemens motherboard in my PC does not officially
support Vista. Consequently ATI dropped the support case
like a hot brick. Fujitsu themselves don't want to know, as
they say the Scenic Series was discontinued before Vista was
released to Joe Public.
Little wonder DELL are re-introducing a range of
systems with XP installed!
George Bell.
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