Stability Survey

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Athlon XP 2500
ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250
512 mge DDR

Well it's been almost a week since Vista was installed as a dual boot option
on my system - and so far it has been rock solid stable. Not a hitch, glitch
or bug to be found. In fact, it's been good enough that I am now thinking of
reinstalling it on the drive that I have XP on.

Which brings me to my question.

Am I the only one with this experience thus far? Or am I just absurdley
lucky with this install? I'd like to know what experiences others have had
out there. Good, Bad or just plain UGLY.

What I hear will determine if I go with as my primary OS.
 
My advice would be to keep the dual boot, and as Vista has new builds moving
into the RC builds you can move onto them and compare XP. But if you need
the space, then go on and format XP and put Vista there if that makes you
happy. I'd clean install. I'd advise against an upgrade although they will
eventually get an upgrade working much better than now I suppose.

You can reach the XP desktop conveniently via C:\Documents and
Settings\HagarTheHorrible's Profile on XP\Desktop Your definition of "rock
solid stable" and that of many others are markedly different, and while
many of us have been able to use Vista for months as a production machine,
it has major flaws and thousands of bugs. The are also failing to retain
some of the helpful features in XP like the Arrange Icons by>Show in Groups
Explorer folder organization. SFC a major repair tool in XP, trashes the
registry unless you run it with the SFC/verifyonly switch which will check
the files and not fix--the Window Vista team's version of Dress Rehearsal
not ready for prime time RTM.

CH
 
I'd say overall it's fairly stable. I've only had a couple lockups (one so
bad I couldn't get to task manager), and 45 unresolved issues (I check for
solutions every day) that I'm aware of. Not to mention software
incompatabilities. No, I said, "not to mention." Go for it!!! =)

Robert
 
The "Egg-timer"gadget triggers bluescreen when i set it, and then turn it
back to zero.
 
I did an initial install as a dual boot with Windows XP on a two hard drive
computer. After a few days I decided to make the leap and clean out that
computer entirely, and preserving important data on another computer, and
re-install Vista as the only OS. So far, I have found it to be very stable
and and have not hade any problems so far. For a Beta OS, it is very good.

The only 'problems' that I have had are getting use to the way Vista does
things. After getting use to the Vista ways, I find that I actually like it
and going back to XP seems like a step backwards.

William
 
Same here rock solid it was a little slow at first but when I updated my
display driver it was just as fast if not faster than Xp
I'm running a nvidia N6200 card and when I installed vista it was assigned
the WDDM driver I updated to the Nvidia Beta driver which has been written
for vista and haven't looked back since
 
Vista 32 bit running quite well here, it seems stable enough. I've even
been playing C&C Generals Zero Hour with no problems. No issues with cpu
usage or memory either.
The only odd thing that has happened is that my secondary display adapter
has vanished (it only shows up if I select show hidden devices in Device
Manager), and consequently Windows tries to attach both of my monitors to
the primary adapter which of course is a no-go. I've had to disable my
second monitor. This happened first with the Vista drivers, then with the
ATI ones. Nothing that I've tried seems to be able to bring the secondary
adapter back. Oh well, good thing I'm dual-booting.
 
Two days straight of uptime, no crashes, two or three hangs, but Vista
handled them without me really doing anything. The only thing so far is lack
of soundcard driver but I'm working on it. I have not installed much
software, Avast, Office 2007, Google Earth, etc... everything so far is
smooth as "Glass." Vista even has my old HP 1350v working, something even XP
struggled with! Next I'll try Trillian, Opera beta 9 and a couple of games.
And this is dual-boot on a laptop!

Good luck to all!
 
The stability seems to be about the same as XP's. I've had a few hang-ups,
but overall pretty good. I'm not going to move away from dual-boot, at
least not yet.
 
Guild Wars seem to hang up swicthing from full screen to desktop,
was rock stable under MCE.

It seem to be an ATI driver problem, also the ATI driver seem to be slower
then
then XP version.. also look very bloated, and the control pannel takes ages
to open ...

Stephan
 
Hi There,

I'm a computer tech from Austrailia. Just yesterday i had tried to set up
Trend Micro Internet Security on a Toshiba Satellite Notebook running Vista
Home Premium, and it threw up a BSOD after Trend started. But it only occured
when i had the wireless internet connection running ("Globetrotter HSDPA
NIC") NextG PCMCIA card. I'm not quite sure if the Wireless card is the
problem or whether it's Trend.

Any ideas on what is causing this BSOD

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 3081

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: d1
BCP1: 00000014
BCP2: 00000002
BCP3: 00000000
BCP4: 82A4DB7C
OS Version: 6_0_6000
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 768_1


Any suggestions anyone??
 
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