Paul-B

Les Hellawell wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:33:01 -0800, Iplant
> <Iplant@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > my install went absolutely perfect and all hardware and software
> > works perfectly. I have had no shut-downs or issues at all! Vista
> > is faster and all the toys work!
>
> As well as Vista I have installed Win 98, Win Me, Win XP (and Amiga)
> several times in the past and Vista was by far the quickest and the
> easiest (Apart from the Amiga of course). Install of Vista including
> reformatting the hard drive took 30 minutes (I timed it). It installed
> the correct graphics card drivers and set the correct screen
> resolution and also all my motherboard drivers and LAN, saving me two
> tasks that I had to do when installing XP. Even my Amiga emulator
> works perfectly on Vista.
>
> I did have a problem getting updates but I eventually tracked that
> down to my router needing a reset.
>
> Thus far my experience with Vista has been great apart from
> the UAC learning curve. I think I am just about on top of the
> hill with that one but I am still a little out-of-puff :-)
>
> BTW: I also have found that the Windows media centre does
> not recognise my tuner card but this is not a problem for me
> as I have no use for the Media Centre anyway.

Can you give us the specifications of your system? Your experience
differs greatly from mine:

AMD Athlon64 3500/3 x 250Gb HDD/3 x 1Gb DDR2/Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro
SLi/Radeon X550 256Mb

The complete install of Vista Business took just over an hour. The SATA
controller was not recognised (no problem as Vista prompted me for the
CD), NVidia network controller was not recognised, Safecom wireless nic
was not recognised. Some of the motherboard drivers were not recognised
(can't remember what as it was nearly 2 months ago). It picked uip and
installed drivers for my HP 5Si laser printer, but not my tcp/ip
networked Konica-Minolta colour laser printer.

Still not a problem, I can live with that. However (and this is not
going to be a Linux v Windows rant) I installed Ubuntu on the same PC.
It took 20 minutes to get completely installed, I didn't have to supply
a single driver. The two printers were not picked-up but installing
them both using cups took all of 5 minutes.

If Ubuntu can do it like that surely Vista should have been able to?

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Paul-B