Vista - Vista working on a low end PC

This is just a general comment on my test system.

I see most people posting about their high end PCs running Vista so I went
the opposite way.

I am running Vista succesfully on this set up...

800mhz P3 (slot one)
Asus mobo (4x agp)
512 meg of PC133 ram
nvidia geforce 5900se 128 meg ram
soundblaster live (gamer edition)
2 seperate HDs ( C: is 60 gig ) (D: is 80 gig )

Only issues I had on install was that I needed my printer driver disk.

and

My microphone does not seem to be heard by Vitsa as well.

I tried with the vista drivers and then downloaded and installed the xp
drivers as someone suggested from a previous post. I can hear myself through
my speakers when I talk into my mic but when I try to use the speech
recognition program I get a message saying that Vista can not hear me. Maybe
I have a deaf version of the OS =)


Everything else eas done by the vista install.

So far I am happy with it but I hope that once the graphic novilty wears off
that I will still feel that way

If this was still called "Longhorn" you could request a version called
"Earhorn".

"mail4youtoo" <mail4youtoo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:509F7F12-0E39-49E4-BE39-70DD70AC2441@microsoft.com...
> This is just a general comment on my test system.
>
> I see most people posting about their high end PCs running Vista so I went
> the opposite way.
>
> I am running Vista succesfully on this set up...
>
> 800mhz P3 (slot one)
> Asus mobo (4x agp)
> 512 meg of PC133 ram
> nvidia geforce 5900se 128 meg ram
> soundblaster live (gamer edition)
> 2 seperate HDs ( C: is 60 gig ) (D: is 80 gig )
>
> Only issues I had on install was that I needed my printer driver disk.
>
> and
>
> My microphone does not seem to be heard by Vitsa as well.
>
> I tried with the vista drivers and then downloaded and installed the xp
> drivers as someone suggested from a previous post. I can hear myself
> through
> my speakers when I talk into my mic but when I try to use the speech
> recognition program I get a message saying that Vista can not hear me.
> Maybe
> I have a deaf version of the OS =)
>
>
> Everything else eas done by the vista install.
>
> So far I am happy with it but I hope that once the graphic novilty wears
> off
> that I will still feel that way

i have the very same problem as you! however my computer is new and has vista
beta drivers for sound. i have tried both the xp and vista drivers and both
allow me to hear threw my speakers and on the vista driver version i can see
the bar under the microphone move as i talk, and it is set for default on all
input. it is clearly working however vista doesnt see it for any programs? if
anyone can assist in helping me i would apreciate it very much ive tried
every setting i could and havent found anything that works?

my computer specs
msi nforce 430/6150 motherboard
onboard sound realtek 880
1gb ddr 500 ballistix ram
pata 80gb hd
sata2 raid array 2x 250gb hd
vista beta 2 build 5384 with all windows updates installed.

"mail4youtoo" wrote:

> This is just a general comment on my test system.
>
> I see most people posting about their high end PCs running Vista so I went
> the opposite way.
>
> I am running Vista succesfully on this set up...
>
> 800mhz P3 (slot one)
> Asus mobo (4x agp)
> 512 meg of PC133 ram
> nvidia geforce 5900se 128 meg ram
> soundblaster live (gamer edition)
> 2 seperate HDs ( C: is 60 gig ) (D: is 80 gig )
>
> Only issues I had on install was that I needed my printer driver disk.
>
> and
>
> My microphone does not seem to be heard by Vitsa as well.
>
> I tried with the vista drivers and then downloaded and installed the xp
> drivers as someone suggested from a previous post. I can hear myself through
> my speakers when I talk into my mic but when I try to use the speech
> recognition program I get a message saying that Vista can not hear me. Maybe
> I have a deaf version of the OS =)
>
>
> Everything else eas done by the vista install.
>
> So far I am happy with it but I hope that once the graphic novilty wears off
> that I will still feel that way

i have the very same problem as you! however my computer is new and has vista
beta drivers for sound. i have tried both the xp and vista drivers and both
allow me to hear threw my speakers and on the vista driver version i can see
the bar under the microphone move as i talk, and it is set for default on all
input. it is clearly working however vista doesnt see it for any programs? if
anyone can assist in helping me i would apreciate it very much ive tried
every setting i could and havent found anything that works?

my computer specs
msi nforce 430/6150 motherboard
onboard sound realtek 880
1gb ddr 500 ballistix ram
pata 80gb hd
sata2 raid array 2x 250gb hd
vista beta 2 build 5384 with all windows updates installed.


"mail4youtoo" wrote:

> This is just a general comment on my test system.
>
> I see most people posting about their high end PCs running Vista so I went
> the opposite way.
>
> I am running Vista succesfully on this set up...
>
> 800mhz P3 (slot one)
> Asus mobo (4x agp)
> 512 meg of PC133 ram
> nvidia geforce 5900se 128 meg ram
> soundblaster live (gamer edition)
> 2 seperate HDs ( C: is 60 gig ) (D: is 80 gig )
>
> Only issues I had on install was that I needed my printer driver disk.
>
> and
>
> My microphone does not seem to be heard by Vitsa as well.
>
> I tried with the vista drivers and then downloaded and installed the xp
> drivers as someone suggested from a previous post. I can hear myself through
> my speakers when I talk into my mic but when I try to use the speech
> recognition program I get a message saying that Vista can not hear me. Maybe
> I have a deaf version of the OS =)
>
>
> Everything else eas done by the vista install.
>
> So far I am happy with it but I hope that once the graphic novilty wears off
> that I will still feel that way

The beta drivers for a lot of soundcards, printers, and such do not enable
all the features. They sometimes only provide basic functionality. The
main thing is to do the bug report so it gets fixed by release.

"Tommy_wt" <Tommy_wt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0F9C3DB4-8246-43F6-BA1C-08729DB5460C@microsoft.com...
>i have the very same problem as you! however my computer is new and has
>vista
> beta drivers for sound. i have tried both the xp and vista drivers and
> both
> allow me to hear threw my speakers and on the vista driver version i can
> see
> the bar under the microphone move as i talk, and it is set for default on
> all
> input. it is clearly working however vista doesnt see it for any programs?
> if
> anyone can assist in helping me i would apreciate it very much ive tried
> every setting i could and havent found anything that works?
>
> my computer specs
> msi nforce 430/6150 motherboard
> onboard sound realtek 880
> 1gb ddr 500 ballistix ram
> pata 80gb hd
> sata2 raid array 2x 250gb hd
> vista beta 2 build 5384 with all windows updates installed.
>
> "mail4youtoo" wrote:
>
>> This is just a general comment on my test system.
>>
>> I see most people posting about their high end PCs running Vista so I
>> went
>> the opposite way.
>>
>> I am running Vista succesfully on this set up...
>>
>> 800mhz P3 (slot one)
>> Asus mobo (4x agp)
>> 512 meg of PC133 ram
>> nvidia geforce 5900se 128 meg ram
>> soundblaster live (gamer edition)
>> 2 seperate HDs ( C: is 60 gig ) (D: is 80 gig )
>>
>> Only issues I had on install was that I needed my printer driver disk.
>>
>> and
>>
>> My microphone does not seem to be heard by Vitsa as well.
>>
>> I tried with the vista drivers and then downloaded and installed the xp
>> drivers as someone suggested from a previous post. I can hear myself
>> through
>> my speakers when I talk into my mic but when I try to use the speech
>> recognition program I get a message saying that Vista can not hear me.
>> Maybe
>> I have a deaf version of the OS =)
>>
>>
>> Everything else eas done by the vista install.
>>
>> So far I am happy with it but I hope that once the graphic novilty wears
>> off
>> that I will still feel that way

If you can call up the speech recognition module try changing the default
engine...that worked for me.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

"Tommy_wt" <Tommy_wt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0F9C3DB4-8246-43F6-BA1C-08729DB5460C@microsoft.com...
>i have the very same problem as you! however my computer is new and has
>vista
> beta drivers for sound. i have tried both the xp and vista drivers and
> both
> allow me to hear threw my speakers and on the vista driver version i can
> see
> the bar under the microphone move as i talk, and it is set for default on
> all
> input. it is clearly working however vista doesnt see it for any programs?
> if
> anyone can assist in helping me i would apreciate it very much ive tried
> every setting i could and havent found anything that works?
>
> my computer specs
> msi nforce 430/6150 motherboard
> onboard sound realtek 880
> 1gb ddr 500 ballistix ram
> pata 80gb hd
> sata2 raid array 2x 250gb hd
> vista beta 2 build 5384 with all windows updates installed.
>
> "mail4youtoo" wrote:
>
>> This is just a general comment on my test system.
>>
>> I see most people posting about their high end PCs running Vista so I
>> went
>> the opposite way.
>>
>> I am running Vista succesfully on this set up...
>>
>> 800mhz P3 (slot one)
>> Asus mobo (4x agp)
>> 512 meg of PC133 ram
>> nvidia geforce 5900se 128 meg ram
>> soundblaster live (gamer edition)
>> 2 seperate HDs ( C: is 60 gig ) (D: is 80 gig )
>>
>> Only issues I had on install was that I needed my printer driver disk.
>>
>> and
>>
>> My microphone does not seem to be heard by Vitsa as well.
>>
>> I tried with the vista drivers and then downloaded and installed the xp
>> drivers as someone suggested from a previous post. I can hear myself
>> through
>> my speakers when I talk into my mic but when I try to use the speech
>> recognition program I get a message saying that Vista can not hear me.
>> Maybe
>> I have a deaf version of the OS =)
>>
>>
>> Everything else eas done by the vista install.
>>
>> So far I am happy with it but I hope that once the graphic novilty wears
>> off
>> that I will still feel that way

i have tried changing the speech recognition module and i have tried
uninstaling and installing both windows xp and windows vista drivers, neither
worked. i believe it has NOTHING to do with the driver because my microphone
does work and in the audio panel you can see the bar underneath the
microphone move as i talk.
see photo: http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5...aspeech8wa.png
in the photo you can see that audio devices has microphone set to default
and the bar under microphone moves as i talk however with the speech window
the bar for the microphone doesnt move at all, and i had selected speech
properties when i took the screenshot so it had priority. i cannot get the
microphone to work with yahoo messenger either. i have sound comming out of
my speakers from the microphone and the bar moves, so why doesnt speech see
it when audio device panel clearly detects it? if anyone else has any ideas
im happy to try them.
everything else in vista works(besides sleep). im, Puzzled????

ps: i have filed a report with microsoft and realtek about the problem just
incase it is a driver issue.


"Peter" wrote:

> If you can call up the speech recognition module try changing the default
> engine...that worked for me.
>
> --
> Peter
> Toronto, Canada
> P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
> ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
> Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio