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[The Fifth Horseman]

Like installing RAM upgrade while the PC was still under power

[_r.u.s.s.]

actually one of my friends wanted to swap his old GPU with a new one. he kinda thought there'd be this 'beeping' sound in xp like when you stick in flash drive he said :laugh:

[dosraider]

My best stunt .... euuurgh I meant 'someone I know his best stunt' .... *cough*cough* was a primairy HD switcher on a 486, those ol' mobos could only boot from IDE 0,and he needed more than the usual bootpartitions -(the lazy arse was of course too lazy to swap the HD by hand)-.
A simple hardware switch, no securities whatever, no electronics .... no problem aslong you switched when the PC was shut down.
Now yeah I ...... euuurh .... mean HE one day switched when powered up .....
Bad idea, the IO chips took a silent but fatal blast.

Nowadays I ... euuuu ..... HE has a primairy HD rack, 7 primairy HDs, what a joy.
:laugh:

[fender178]

My vista skills suck I know. but Once I use vista more and more I will master it. It just takes time to get used to vista. Or taking the RAM out while the computer is still on.

[_r.u.s.s.]

i'd read my 3rd post above fender

[Office_Monk]

Hopefully I will have my new PC (AMD Phenom 9850 BLACK, 8800GTS 512MB (G92 core), 2GB RAM 800MHz, 500GB SATA2, ASUS M2N-E SLI (about the weakest link), Lightscribe DVD-RW, 600W PSU), this coming week.

Standard it will come with Vista Home, we'll see how long it takes before I install XP... Since I like total control, it probably won't take long!

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Office_Monk

Standard it will come with Vista Home, we'll see how long it takes before I install XP... Since I like total control, it probably won't take long!

Carefull with that, some newer IO chipsets won't work swell under XP, and honnestly, with some -(really basic)- tweakings you have all the XP functionality under Vista.
I even would add more: on newer systems you lose installing XP.

Don't make the mistake to listen to all those juvinile.com talks, they only parrotin'eachother because they think it's gives them some credibility when bashing Vista. But at the end it comes to: "we are n00bs and we completely lack basic knowledge".

Don't be a sheep, make it up for yourself what Vista is worth -(or not)-.....

[Edit] Before some smartass gets the wrong idea: No, I'm personnally not very happy with Vista, that's the reason I'm still on my AMD64 3500+, I see no reason to get a newer and faster home PC.

[Office_Monk]

Originally Posted by dosraider

Carefull with that, some newer IO chipsets won't work swell under XP, and honnestly, with some -(really basic)- tweakings you have all the XP functionality under Vista.
I even would add more: on newer systems you lose installing XP.

Don't make the mistake to listen to all those juvinile.com talks, they only parrotin'eachother because they think it's gives them some credibility when bashing Vista. But at the end it comes to: "we are n00bs and we completely lack basic knowledge".

Don't be a sheep, make it up for yourself what Vista is worth -(or not)-.....

The mobo shouldn't have probs with XP, Vista is pretty restrictive (worked with it on laptops that weren't mine), when it's my PC; I'm in charge not an OS.

[_r.u.s.s.]

he meant, those 'restrictions' can be disabled with the 'tweakings'

[Daniel Caputo]

Well... I have Vista Home Basic in my new dual core laptop, and until yesterday I was satisfied with it, but...

I tried to run X-COM on it an the screen went wild, i colud hear the game very well, but the image was compressed on the top of the screen... I would like to know a way to solve this problem, and to slow down the processor, because a friend of mine said that the scroll speed is too fast when running this game with powerfull new processors, he tried to run it witrh dosbox, but it didn't work because it is a Windows version.

Another problem appeared when I tried to install Wizardry vii... for WinVista isn't compatible with Daemon Tools... I would like to play these games in my new laptop, so I need the some help...

Please, don't say that the only way is dual boot... rs