Hi All. I'm absolutely fed up with problems with my Vista 64x install on my 6 month old PC. I think my general ignorance and willingness to experiment with stuff I know nothing about may have screwed my OS.
A while ago I tried to install a DVB tuner stick and have ended up with a partially enabled thing that works with reduced functionality in Media Center.
I tried to install CS3 but kept getting error messages. Despite lots of help in forums I just kept getting error messages, people were suggesting command prompts and I'd get error messages. Had to give up.
Recently tried to install SP1, both from update and a standalone pack, and it just won't.
I get "An internal error occurred while installing service pack- error code 0x800B0100"
Once again I've been given loads of help fom people on forums (thanks DMEX) including all sorts of different diagnostics and command prompts but none of them have helped and I still can't install it.
This is particularly important as I have an 8800GT on the way and I know there have been driver issues in Vista. Now if you look on NVidias site instead of "hot fixes" for these problems it suggests you get SP1 and I can't.
By chance arriving in the same shipment from Overclockers is a 500GB Samsung Spinpoint, identical with the one I have in.
My thought is that I could do a fresh install from my OEM disk on the new drive, thus giving me a fresh start with Vista, salvaging what I can from the old one and then wiping it and using it as a storage drive.
As I've said I'm an experimenter with zero knowledge base so I'll probably screw this up even further so help would be appreciated.
Anyway, what do people think and what would be the best way to go about it?
I wondered if I could take out the original drive and put the new one in and do a fresh Vista install on it from my OEM Vista HP 64x disk
Then partition the new drive, with Windows behind the partition and reinstall the old drive with all my original stuff on it plus my original Vista install?
I'd then salvage what I can from the old drive and then format it, wiping the original Vista and all the other programs and use it for backup and storage.
I could even put XP Home and the new Ubuntu on partitions on the new drive and have a triple boot.!
Actually that would be great if it's possible.
An alternative would be just to format the old drive and do a clean install on the new one. I have most of my media files and documents on an external hard drive. I could replace those wherever I wanted on the two drives so all I'd lose would be my programs.
So. Has anybody got any comments or advice?
I love and hate Vista 64x. The last few months have been a nightmare where I've spent more time thinking about computers than enjoying using them and that's madness.
When it's running well though it is amazing to use and look at and gaming in it is excellent.
Thanks for reading this rant, John Williams (UK)
Asus P5NE-SLI, Q6600, 8600GT (soon to be 8800GT) 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Thermaltake 650 watt PSU, Thermaltake Tsunami case, Samsung 226BW monitor, Logitech G15 keyboard, Microsoft Laser mouse.
A while ago I tried to install a DVB tuner stick and have ended up with a partially enabled thing that works with reduced functionality in Media Center.
I tried to install CS3 but kept getting error messages. Despite lots of help in forums I just kept getting error messages, people were suggesting command prompts and I'd get error messages. Had to give up.
Recently tried to install SP1, both from update and a standalone pack, and it just won't.
I get "An internal error occurred while installing service pack- error code 0x800B0100"
Once again I've been given loads of help fom people on forums (thanks DMEX) including all sorts of different diagnostics and command prompts but none of them have helped and I still can't install it.
This is particularly important as I have an 8800GT on the way and I know there have been driver issues in Vista. Now if you look on NVidias site instead of "hot fixes" for these problems it suggests you get SP1 and I can't.
By chance arriving in the same shipment from Overclockers is a 500GB Samsung Spinpoint, identical with the one I have in.
My thought is that I could do a fresh install from my OEM disk on the new drive, thus giving me a fresh start with Vista, salvaging what I can from the old one and then wiping it and using it as a storage drive.
As I've said I'm an experimenter with zero knowledge base so I'll probably screw this up even further so help would be appreciated.
Anyway, what do people think and what would be the best way to go about it?
I wondered if I could take out the original drive and put the new one in and do a fresh Vista install on it from my OEM Vista HP 64x disk
Then partition the new drive, with Windows behind the partition and reinstall the old drive with all my original stuff on it plus my original Vista install?
I'd then salvage what I can from the old drive and then format it, wiping the original Vista and all the other programs and use it for backup and storage.
I could even put XP Home and the new Ubuntu on partitions on the new drive and have a triple boot.!
Actually that would be great if it's possible.
An alternative would be just to format the old drive and do a clean install on the new one. I have most of my media files and documents on an external hard drive. I could replace those wherever I wanted on the two drives so all I'd lose would be my programs.
So. Has anybody got any comments or advice?
I love and hate Vista 64x. The last few months have been a nightmare where I've spent more time thinking about computers than enjoying using them and that's madness.
When it's running well though it is amazing to use and look at and gaming in it is excellent.
Thanks for reading this rant, John Williams (UK)
Asus P5NE-SLI, Q6600, 8600GT (soon to be 8800GT) 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Thermaltake 650 watt PSU, Thermaltake Tsunami case, Samsung 226BW monitor, Logitech G15 keyboard, Microsoft Laser mouse.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- custom build
- CPU
- Q6600 OCd to 3.06GHz
- Motherboard
- Asus P5Q Pro
- Memory
- Corsair 2x2GB TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF G
- Graphics Card(s)
- XFX GTX 260 Black Edition
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell Utrasharp 2408WFP
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1200
- Hard Drives
- 2x Samsung Spinpoint 500GB
1x Samsung F1 1TB
- PSU
- Thermaltake Toughpower 650 watt
- Case
- Coolermaster Cosmos S
- Cooling
- Tuniq Tower 120 + 3x120mm + 200m side fan
- Keyboard
- logitech Wave
- Mouse
- Roccat Kone
- Internet Speed
- supposedly 8mbps actually about 4 or 5
- Other Info
- love this mouse