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M2N-SLI Vista Upgrade Q
I'm sitting here with a copy of Vista Ultimate in my hot little hands, more
apprehensive than usual when upgrading operating systems. The patient is an XP-Pro machine with a dual Sata Raid-0 configuration and dual 7800 GTX video cards. What is most intimidating is that the Vista Upgrade Advisor is reporting that compatibility information is not known for various of the Nvidia components. I suspect some folks here have tackled the upgrade on similar machines. Can anyone share some words of wisdom? Art |
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M2N-SLI Vista Upgrade Q
"Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... I'm sitting here with a copy of Vista Ultimate in my hot little hands, more apprehensive than usual when upgrading operating systems. The patient is an XP-Pro machine with a dual Sata Raid-0 configuration and dual 7800 GTX video cards. What is most intimidating is that the Vista Upgrade Advisor is reporting that compatibility information is not known for various of the Nvidia components. I suspect some folks here have tackled the upgrade on similar machines. Can anyone share some words of wisdom? Art Hard drives are dirt cheap. Buy another one and install Vista on that. When you discover that you don't like Vista you only have to change drives. It never hurts to have a spare drive on hand anyhow. |
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On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:21:16 GMT, "Venom" wrote:
"Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... I'm sitting here with a copy of Vista Ultimate in my hot little hands, more apprehensive than usual when upgrading operating systems. The patient is an XP-Pro machine with a dual Sata Raid-0 configuration and dual 7800 GTX video cards. What is most intimidating is that the Vista Upgrade Advisor is reporting that compatibility information is not known for various of the Nvidia components. I suspect some folks here have tackled the upgrade on similar machines. Can anyone share some words of wisdom? Art Hard drives are dirt cheap. Buy another one and install Vista on that. When you discover that you don't like Vista you only have to change drives. It never hurts to have a spare drive on hand anyhow. Excellent idea, especially in these early days when the expected deluge of Microsoft OS fixes has not yet started. How come the OP has a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate anyway? The final retail release has not yet occurred, iirc.... John Lewis |
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John Lewis wrote:
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:21:16 GMT, "Venom" wrote: "Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... I'm sitting here with a copy of Vista Ultimate in my hot little hands, more apprehensive than usual when upgrading operating systems. The patient is an XP-Pro machine with a dual Sata Raid-0 configuration and dual 7800 GTX video cards. What is most intimidating is that the Vista Upgrade Advisor is reporting that compatibility information is not known for various of the Nvidia components. I suspect some folks here have tackled the upgrade on similar machines. Can anyone share some words of wisdom? Art Hard drives are dirt cheap. Buy another one and install Vista on that. When you discover that you don't like Vista you only have to change drives. It never hurts to have a spare drive on hand anyhow. Excellent idea, especially in these early days when the expected deluge of Microsoft OS fixes has not yet started. How come the OP has a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate anyway? The final retail release has not yet occurred, iirc.... For MSDN and Technet subscribers it has... Dan |
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"Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... In article , (John Lewis) wrote: Excellent idea, especially in these early days when the expected deluge of Microsoft OS fixes has not yet started. How come the OP has a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate anyway The OP is in the industry. I'm not wild about adding another drive right now, as it would have to be a traditional IDE drive (unless I actually pull the existing drives), and I've heard some significant problems mixing SATA and PATA. But that's why I posted - if that's the best solution, it can be accomodated. Art I made that suggestion simply because a few of us in this area wanted to see what Vista/Palladium was all about and a beta copy is not worth putting on your main machine so the easiest way out was the second hard drive. Then RC1 arrived and that replaced the earlier beta release on the spare hard drive. We just found it to be the easiest way around it. I should add that none of us use SATA drives either so it is just a matter of swapping two cables. None of us will be switching to Vista as our permanent daily OS any time in the near future. I suppose it doesn't help build confidence in the OS that Microsoft shares have dropped with the release of Vista either. |
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I have XP and Vista in a dual boot configuration using 2 SATA
drives...........I have run this way since RC1 and am now on RC2 build 5744on a cheap Asrock socket 939 Nvidea Chipset mobo with an Opteron 148 chip and 2gig of DDR Ram. I have used Vista for Video transfers to DVD,Audio recording,Video editing etc etc. Yes I have run into a few problems but none of them had to do with Vista being on a SATA drive I am actually looking forward to the final release!! peter "Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... In article , (John Lewis) wrote: Excellent idea, especially in these early days when the expected deluge of Microsoft OS fixes has not yet started. How come the OP has a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate anyway The OP is in the industry. I'm not wild about adding another drive right now, as it would have to be a traditional IDE drive (unless I actually pull the existing drives), and I've heard some significant problems mixing SATA and PATA. But that's why I posted - if that's the best solution, it can be accomodated. Art |
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as an addon
The problems that you are concerned about showed up when I ran the upgrade advisor as well....but like I said it is runnung without problems....but then again I am not running a Raid Array and I believe that is where most of the Nvidea Problems show up accoding to: http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/nvid...rce3-vf59.html peter "peter" wrote in message news:uuVlh.539660$5R2.506683@pd7urf3no... I have XP and Vista in a dual boot configuration using 2 SATA drives...........I have run this way since RC1 and am now on RC2 build 5744on a cheap Asrock socket 939 Nvidea Chipset mobo with an Opteron 148 chip and 2gig of DDR Ram. I have used Vista for Video transfers to DVD,Audio recording,Video editing etc etc. Yes I have run into a few problems but none of them had to do with Vista being on a SATA drive I am actually looking forward to the final release!! peter "Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... In article , (John Lewis) wrote: Excellent idea, especially in these early days when the expected deluge of Microsoft OS fixes has not yet started. How come the OP has a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate anyway The OP is in the industry. I'm not wild about adding another drive right now, as it would have to be a traditional IDE drive (unless I actually pull the existing drives), and I've heard some significant problems mixing SATA and PATA. But that's why I posted - if that's the best solution, it can be accomodated. Art |
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