D'oh [another Windows Vista rant]

FOX

[frustrated]
soo new job with dad as a lot of you know.. Went out and bought a new acer system the other day decent specs, great for the office. Got a really nice 21.6" screen to match it.

Get back to the office get everything hooked up get it on the network make vista look all pretty and run the way I want it to. Install everything that I want to use get some music pics and other things on there. Go to install the software package that we use for the company and f-ing thing doesn't work with vista. ^&*$% All right, no big deal, call the software company to see if they have a patch after looking online. Call and the turds wont talk to me w/o a credit card. F That! the software costs like 20k punks better come out a milk me... get no where with that so i hang up

go home grab a blank hdd and spend the rest of the day installing xp pro. YAY

Its still installing sp2 I just hope that some of the drivers wont have issues not being on vista... Like the soundcard that I cant get to work.

went to acers site and they list a whopping 3 drivers on there all but one have to be on vista.

The motherboard I found out is a foxconn.... I went to their website but couldnt really find anything but where would i find the model of my motherboard? Call acer or foxconn? I need teh audio and other drivers that are busted lol....

[/frustration (hopefully)]

p.s. loving teh new job so far

Charlie · Posted: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:23:42 Post Subject:

I've had Vista Business since April and I'm STILL working out issues; it's on a prebuilt system so I would think there shouldn't be any problems... It's a POS OS and I don't recommend it to anyone...

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:16:43 Post Subject:

Glad the new job is going well! Sounds like you have some flexibility on tech stuff, which is nice!

FOX · Posted: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:19:38 Post Subject:

sooooooo 3 hours later and i was able to locate all the drivers... i still have no idea what mobo i have but i went on newegg and just looked at all the pictures till i found something that looked similar took 3 trys to get the audio drivers to work and twice for the graphics drivers to install... i heart vista lol

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:13:57 Post Subject:

Open it up and look at the mode;/serial on it? Really, all you need to know is what some of the hardware is. The best way I found was to load up a Linux LiveCD since the kernels are built with most of the drivers built modularly. Then just look at `lspci` output to see what all the different hardware make/models are.

kimchiman · Rated R Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 60 Location: New Jersey

Been using Vista for a few months and no issues other than creative making a lousy driver for it. Did you know you can right click on the program's icon and choose "run as XP" and also "run as administrator"? That fixes 90% of any issues you encounter with compatibility.

Spire · Posted: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:54:21 Post Subject:

Been running Vista on an HP laptop for almost 9 months now and haven't had issue one.

I don't need or use all the bling, but I forget im on Vista sometimes.