Foo - Oh Vista, how I love thee.

Start-up screen

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TA DA!!!!

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This is on a new computer that has run fine* for the last month. It came with Vista. I haven't done ANYTHING as far as updates. It worked fine yesterday and now on start-up this morning - Boom.


*As fine as Vista can run. (read: nothing but problematic)

Ugh - sorry man. XP will be the last MS operating system on my machines me thinks.

Sounds like Bill Gates owes you a reach around.

what model Lenovo is that? I've got a 3000 N100 a few months ago and I got that screen once too.

Time for a low level format and reinstall... XP Pro w/ SP2.

It's a 3000 J115.

Luckily it's not mine. This is one of the 8,701 reasons I own a Mac.

Sounds like Bill Gates owes you a reach around.

:roflmao: That's so wrong. Funny as hell, but wrong. :roflmao:


I've been thinking about going Ubuntu.

Just watched my friend's house for a week - her new computer has Vista - she is a network admin for the city so I would say she's got her stuff together - but she hasn't had much time to tweek it - and her two pre-teens have all sorts of junk on it - her start-up file is huge.

And the computer runs like a dog. Terrifically slow! Memory, etc seems pretty adequate - a 6o GB plus harddrive and it's been partitioned but BOY is it freaking slow!

My BFF, Jake tried to put Vista on his HP laptop. He described it as "true 4-bit colour in a 4-inch by 4-inch screen".

I'm not sure if I hate Vista or if I hate ACER. I bought a new computer a couple of months ago (Acer) and it is the biggest piece of crap I have ever owned. I'm just not sure who is at fault, acer or Vista. Sometimes it will take five minutes to open up a spread sheet!

*edit* Forgot to mention that it locks up every day or so as well. The smallest things make it freak out!

Is that Vista's version of the "blue screen of death".

That could be hardware, or an attack. "An attempt was made to write to read only memory" Now that is a messed up situation, the question is who messed it up...

I have been using Vista for a few months, and see it as a mixed bag. But it is getting better; and I am looking forward to DX10 games.

Just watched my friend's house for a week - her new computer has Vista - she is a network admin for the city so I would say she's got her stuff together - but she hasn't had much time to tweek it - and her two pre-teens have all sorts of junk on it - her start-up file is huge.

And the computer runs like a dog. Terrifically slow! Memory, etc seems pretty adequate - a 6o GB plus harddrive and it's been partitioned but BOY is it freaking slow!



I'm running Vista on the desktop and it can be slow with all the visual apps running full time, but it's not as bad as you guys make it out to be.


If the teens are running a bunch of files then that's the problem right there. Vista isn't majick.

I'm running Vista on the desktop and it can be slow with all the visual apps running full time, but it's not as bad as you guys make it out to be.


Believe me, mine is worse than I could ever make it out to be. I really wish I wouldn't have tossed out my five year old dell.

my mom's vista made me want a mac

Humph, you would think with all the money Bill Gates has he could upgrade the BSOD message... :D

Werd! Looks just like the XP version.

I think XP is still too bloated and buggy.
That's why I'm still happily running 2000 server.

When I just recently bought my girlfriend the laptop to replace her stolen one, I went *out of my way* to find one with XP on it. :)

Maybe I got one of the good ones, and you guys are still running the beta? :rolleyes:

Just spent 25 minutes on the phone with IBM. Re-installing the OS right now.


*sigh*

:roflmao: That's so wrong. Funny as hell, but wrong. :roflmao:


I've been thinking about going Ubuntu.

Do it! Then get XGL working and install Beryl, all the pretty stuff you could ever want. Expose like on a Mac, renders multiple workspaces on a sweet cube, and is generally really awesome and makes Aero look like the garbage it is. you can also get Mac OS X style dock bars (Kiba Dock for one).

...I'll stop now.

Just spent 25 minutes on the phone with IBM. Re-installing the OS right now.


*sigh*


What really happened? Were you futzing with your nude online webcam service and fried the motherboard?


Fess up...we won't tell.


Oh. IBM. Nevermind. Carry on, nuff said.

(Dell sux too, I'm using HP)

...makes Aero look like the garbage it is.


I can feel the hate!:eek:

What really happened? Were you futzing with your nude online webcam service and fried the motherboard?





We ran a full test on the hardware and everything came up clean... It's not IBM's fault.


Somehow, the OS got fzucked while the power was OFF.

I can feel the hate!:eek:

not really "hate" so much as... extreme dislike. They tried to promote it as this revolutionary awesome new feature, but similar things have been implemented on Macs and Beryl/Compiz for quite a while. And it's horribly inefficient.

I am just not a fan of Vista :lol:, the more I work with Microsoft products the more of a Linux/Open Source fan girl I become.

the words 'crash dump' sound kinda scary.

the words 'crash dump' sound kinda scary.


The last time I used the term "crash dump", I had the flu.

I just love how when something goes horribly wrong with Windows it reverts back to the blue or black screen and DOS text of the 80's. Just a friendly reminder that underneath all the pretty colors, fancy icons, and animated windows, all you really have is this.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/CDE/_KAYPRO.JPG

The last time I used the term "crash dump", I had the flu.


There was the one New Year's party when I drunkenly ran my car into a statue and crapped my pants, but that's a discussion best left for another time.

So, after re-installing the OS, I still get the BSOD.

*sigh*

If anyone needs me, I'll be on the phone until my death.

Dipper, how you healing?

If I had known we were gonna post pics of our BSODs, I'd have taken a pic of the one I got this morning while surfing the Commuting forum. Instead of illegal accessing of memory, it was some lame variable not set right or something. And I'm running XP, not Vista and today was the first time I got the BSOD on this machine. Must be the summer solstice.

Do it! Then get XGL working and install Beryl, all the pretty stuff you could ever want. Expose like on a Mac, renders multiple workspaces on a sweet cube, and is generally really awesome and makes Aero look like the garbage it is. you can also get Mac OS X style dock bars (Kiba Dock for one).I'm generally not a fan of fancy OS interfaces (I only use Gnome under Ubuntu because I'm too lazy to get WindowMaker or ctwm set up right. Ubuntu set up all of my laptop's fancy buttons and stuff automatically, and I'm used to it! Boo!), I wish my laptop didn't have crummy, low-end, barely supported, Porta-Radeon integrated video so I could try out this new fancy 3D stuff. I've seen the videos, and it's very gee-whiz whooshy and everything. It'd be fun to play with.

As for Vista, blech. I haven't even cared enough to seek out screenshots of the stupid thing. Last I saw of it, it had that huge, gaudy sidebar on the screen, and it was called... what was it, Blackcomb? Windows 2000 was the last version of Windows that was remotely usable, to me. The few times I've been unfortunate enough to use XP, I've wanted to strangle the life out of someone in retribution. Ugh.

As soon as we installed WinXP on our Mac using the Bootcamp software from Apple, we lost half our hard drive to the huge windows installation and the computer started running slow in both Windows and Mac sides. No coincidence here!!

So, after re-installing the OS, I still get the BSOD.

*sigh*

If anyone needs me, I'll be on the phone until my death.

Just press the orange Lenovo button, that'll fix it

Well, they decided that it was bad enough to send somebody over here to fix it tomorrow morning.

Well, they decided that it was bad enough to send somebody over here to fix it tomorrow morning.
Tell Nick I said hello.

http://www.geocities.com/jimmyfallonforlife/Nick_Burns.jpg

Sounds like Bill Gates owes you a reach around.

Didn't he already achieve that?

Tell Nick I said hello.

http://www.geocities.com/jimmyfallonforlife/Nick_Burns.jpg




MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Didn't he already achieve that?


If he did, I didn't feel it. Maybe he should work out more. You know, with gold bars coated in diamonds, then coated in platinum, then re-coated with gold.

I'm not sure if I hate Vista or if I hate ACER. I bought a new computer a couple of months ago (Acer) and it is the biggest piece of crap I have ever owned. I'm just not sure who is at fault, acer or Vista. Sometimes it will take five minutes to open up a spread sheet!

*edit* Forgot to mention that it locks up every day or so as well. The smallest things make it freak out!
That's an Acer allright!

They need to ship out a free service tech with every Acer! They are shipped pre-broken!:D

As for Vista, blech. I haven't even cared enough to seek out screenshots of the stupid thing. Last I saw of it, it had that huge, gaudy sidebar on the screen, and it was called... what was it, Blackcomb? Windows 2000 was the last version of Windows that was remotely usable, to me. The few times I've been unfortunate enough to use XP, I've wanted to strangle the life out of someone in retribution. Ugh.
Tell me about it. I've been living the mac easy life at home for a good 3 years now, and make do with XP at work. About to join a MS-heavy director doing hardcore MS-exclusive work all the time. With Vista. And a whole wagon-load of other stuff.. time to get back in the game :(

(even he doesn't have many kind words for Vista)

I have Vista on my laptop, and so far I haven't had any issues, but I won't let my wife download anything on the laptop.....period! She can have the desktop. If Vista does cause me too many issues, I'll just use Linux or Open BSD!

I'm not sure if I hate Vista or if I hate ACER. I bought a new computer a couple of months ago (Acer) and it is the biggest piece of crap I have ever owned. I'm just not sure who is at fault, acer or Vista. Sometimes it will take five minutes to open up a spread sheet!

*edit* Forgot to mention that it locks up every day or so as well. The smallest things make it freak out!
The problem is Vista, otherwise known as ME MkII.
Try a Kubuntu or PCLinuxOS live CD, doesn't do anything to the system until you tell it. If it works for you, problem solved! If you're gonna stick with Redmond XP SP2 is about as good as it gets.

not really "hate" so much as... extreme dislike. They tried to promote it as this revolutionary awesome new feature, but similar things have been implemented on Macs and Beryl/Compiz for quite a while. And it's horribly inefficient.

I am just not a fan of Vista :lol:, the more I work with Microsoft products the more of a Linux/Open Source fan girl I become.
Hah! I knew I liked you when I saw that pic with the angel wings, but I thought it was just 'cause you looked cute! :D

Here's a prediction, at the moment all the 3D stuff is mostly eye candy, there is some good stuff but its nothing you can live without.

But, someone is going to come up with an idea that everyone's gonna look at and say, " Damn! Now I have to go 3D!"

The prediction is that it won't be Redmond that does it, maybe Apple, but they are going to have to work hard to get there before the XGL, Beryl, AIGXL hackers.

my mom's vista made me want a mac

My friend's Mac made me want a PC.

Nyaa nyaa nyaa

:D

Your friend's Mac is a PC. Did you mean it made you want Windows? Cuz euuugh.

Your friend's Mac is a PC. Did you mean it made you want Windows? Cuz euuugh.

It was brand new and kept locking up on him. He wasn't in windows mode at the time. It was nice but a Mac is a lot more money for a lot smaller video card. I play
video games, and computer purchases revolve around the video card for me.

Vista Sucks! My Gateway notebook would barely run with all the crap it had going on. I disabled that initial pop-up screen, that helped some, and I erased all the McAfee anti-viral/anti-everything crap, too. Installed Norton, which is still a hog, but overall the system is probably 4 times faster after doing these things.