R
Romane
Well, my Vista box seems to be improved. In general, the performance is
flying. The eye-candy works well, too. Installing the latest drivers from
Intel seem to have solved most of the issues, bar one which I discuss
somewhat further below. The beta version of the latest drivers from nVidia
look like they have fixed the issues that was having with earlier versions.
The network works without a hitch - I have this Vista box, an XP Pro box,
and a Linux box, and they are all quite happy to talk to each other. The few
software issues am still having may mostly need to be addressed by the
software developers, not Microsoft, and am following up that area.
Two issues looking for assistance on, however. So you have some idea what
you are looking at, system is Ultimate, nVidia 8800gts with 320Mb, 2Gb
memory, 2 x 320Gb hard drives (SATA), Dual Core 2 6600 @2.40GHz, Intel
D975XBX2 motherboard., all the latest hardware drivers from Intel and
nVidia.
First one seems rather minor - what setting have I tripped to lose my access
to information on the Windows Experience Index. Access via 'Control Panel /
System and Maintenance / System / View amount of Ram and Processor Speed',
and I get something similar to where my index used to be detailed, but
missing the various component details, and no link to re-check the index.
'System and Maintenance / System / Check your Windows Experience Index base
score' and I get an almost blank screen that says I can check it, and when
the last rating was done, but no links or other means of checking.
The other is more serious. The XP box also serves as my print server. Vista
seems to have a problem with this, but in an inconsistent manner. I can
print from most of my applications in Vista with only about a minute's delay
(still far too long, but if I must, I will live with it, albeit
impatiently), but what I will refer to as Windows native programs (Notepad,
WordPad etc) hang completely without the expected recovery I have come to
expect from Vista. After between 5 to 10 minutes, I get impatient and kill
the application off. It is only when I try to print that the problem
occurs - all applications seem to behave otherwise pretty well normally. I
suspect that it has something to do with the way the Vista and XP boxes talk
to each other about the process, but I have no other problems in Network
communications. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the printers, to
no avail. Reboots, also no joy. From the XP box, they both work perfectly
Can anyone give me some pointers (in layman's terms, please) that may help
me to fix this issue?
R.
flying. The eye-candy works well, too. Installing the latest drivers from
Intel seem to have solved most of the issues, bar one which I discuss
somewhat further below. The beta version of the latest drivers from nVidia
look like they have fixed the issues that was having with earlier versions.
The network works without a hitch - I have this Vista box, an XP Pro box,
and a Linux box, and they are all quite happy to talk to each other. The few
software issues am still having may mostly need to be addressed by the
software developers, not Microsoft, and am following up that area.
Two issues looking for assistance on, however. So you have some idea what
you are looking at, system is Ultimate, nVidia 8800gts with 320Mb, 2Gb
memory, 2 x 320Gb hard drives (SATA), Dual Core 2 6600 @2.40GHz, Intel
D975XBX2 motherboard., all the latest hardware drivers from Intel and
nVidia.
First one seems rather minor - what setting have I tripped to lose my access
to information on the Windows Experience Index. Access via 'Control Panel /
System and Maintenance / System / View amount of Ram and Processor Speed',
and I get something similar to where my index used to be detailed, but
missing the various component details, and no link to re-check the index.
'System and Maintenance / System / Check your Windows Experience Index base
score' and I get an almost blank screen that says I can check it, and when
the last rating was done, but no links or other means of checking.
The other is more serious. The XP box also serves as my print server. Vista
seems to have a problem with this, but in an inconsistent manner. I can
print from most of my applications in Vista with only about a minute's delay
(still far too long, but if I must, I will live with it, albeit
impatiently), but what I will refer to as Windows native programs (Notepad,
WordPad etc) hang completely without the expected recovery I have come to
expect from Vista. After between 5 to 10 minutes, I get impatient and kill
the application off. It is only when I try to print that the problem
occurs - all applications seem to behave otherwise pretty well normally. I
suspect that it has something to do with the way the Vista and XP boxes talk
to each other about the process, but I have no other problems in Network
communications. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the printers, to
no avail. Reboots, also no joy. From the XP box, they both work perfectly
Can anyone give me some pointers (in layman's terms, please) that may help
me to fix this issue?
R.