[ddots-l] Re: VISTA - Don't fall into my trap.
- From: Mike C <m_dsmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:33:35 -0400
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
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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