VISTA RC2: Comments and Questions

Dyre Straits · Oct 8, 2006, 08:12 AM

I'm about to install this myself and was actually surprised there aren't any other posts about it yet. (Or I'm blind in one eye and can't see out of the other.)

Anyway, I was curious as to how many installed this as an update as opposed to a new installation?

CDsDontBurn · Oct 8, 2006, 08:27 AM

i began the download of it, but becuase MSFT didn't email me a product key, i cancelled my d/l for rc2.

dsdsdk · Oct 8, 2006, 08:32 AM

isnt it the same key for rc2 as rc1?

CDsDontBurn · Oct 8, 2006, 08:52 AM

i don't know. i didn't read anything about that anywhere.

Dyre Straits · Oct 8, 2006, 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CDsDontBurn

i began the download of it, but becuase MSFT didn't email me a product key, i cancelled my d/l for rc2.

The PK for RC1 works.

Dyre Straits · Oct 8, 2006, 09:21 AM

[COLOR=red]I AM FURIOUS!!!!! [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]I selected the CUSTOM installation AND I selected my E: Drive to be the new VISTA system drive JUST LIKE I HAD BEFORE on previous installations!!![/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]BUT.... [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]IT PUT IT ON MY C:\ DRIVE...which is my XP PRO drive.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]I'm so mad I'm seeing RED!!!!![/COLOR]

gadabout · Oct 8, 2006, 09:23 AM

Well, I installed RC2 this afternoon as a clean install, so I am no help to you Dyre Straits.

Now, you can use the same key that you have now. I've been using the same key since Beta 1. Went through the activation process just fine too.

All I can say so far is that runs pretty darn good. It seems much "smoother" than RC1. The only devices that don't work for me is my scanner and webcam. Since I rarely use either one, I am not really caring. And besides I still have MCE as a dual-boot.

CDsDontBurn · Oct 8, 2006, 09:36 AM

oh, sad to hear dyre.

but the good news is that i can use my rc1 key....i guess that's good news....

PangingJr · Oct 8, 2006, 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

[COLOR=red]I AM FURIOUS!!!!! [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]I selected the CUSTOM installation AND I selected my E: Drive to be the new VISTA system drive JUST LIKE I HAD BEFORE on previous installations!!![/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]BUT.... [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]IT PUT IT ON MY C:\ DRIVE...which is my XP PRO drive.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]I'm so mad I'm seeing RED!!!!![/COLOR]

oh boy. so what are you doing now?

gadabout · Oct 8, 2006, 09:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

[COLOR=red]I AM FURIOUS!!!!! [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]I selected the CUSTOM installation AND I selected my E: Drive to be the new VISTA system drive JUST LIKE I HAD BEFORE on previous installations!!![/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]BUT.... [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]IT PUT IT ON MY C:\ DRIVE...which is my XP PRO drive.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]I'm so mad I'm seeing RED!!!!![/COLOR]

Man that really sucks, to say the least. Hope u can get it sorted out.
My only problem with installing Vista is if I started the install in WinXP, and left the CD in when it rebooted it would screw up the bootloader. So I just took it out whenever the computer needed to reboot. But that's an easy fix.

Dyre Straits · Oct 8, 2006, 11:11 AM

OK.....well, call it a brain cramp or whatever you want. Here's the scoop on my reported problem above:

On all previous installations, when I would open My Computer, it would show my HDDs just the way I have them in XP Pro. That is, C: would show up as a normal storage drive....not the system drive. E: (Where I installed VISTA) would show up as System.

Well, that all changed with this installation and I don't know why.

HOWEVER.....Big Sigh of Relief!....the drives are all OK...and VISTA DID install on my E: drive. I had to do a little deeper inspection to determine that it was so.

NOW....my newest problem is that I can't increase my Screen Resolution above 1024x768. I had no problem doing so in previous releases. I need my 1280x1024!

At least, though, I'm still dual booting without any problem. So, call it a false alarm if you want.

kryten · Oct 8, 2006, 11:15 AM

I have been using RC1 on both my laptop and desktop for about 2 weeks. Had some limited driver problems, (Xerox onetouch scanner, VoipVoice USB phone) but everything else was OK, no real differences that I can see, except that RC2 is NOT compatible with CA antivirus 7.2, even though RC1 was. It looks like the UACP raises its ugly head again.

Worst thing is, you can't use Windows DVD Maker unless you have a 256Mb Video Card. That sucks as my nasty little Intel 822/825 video card worked just fine under XP.

CDsDontBurn · Oct 8, 2006, 02:42 PM

@ dyre: have you tried installing the latest available vista drivers for your gfx card? and i know what you mean about missing 1280x1024, i feel the same way about my 1600x1200

PangingJr · Oct 8, 2006, 03:07 PM

mines default to 1280x1024 at first time of desktop was appeared, after the installation finished.

Yik · Oct 8, 2006, 03:16 PM

Been running stable for me so far, however, no drivers will detect my X800GTO properly, so no Aero. Catalyst RC1 drivers do not work, XP drivers work ok, but do not show my graphics memory, nor does the automatica stock ones. Guess I'll have to wait for ATi to release some new ones?

Dyre Straits · Oct 8, 2006, 06:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CDsDontBurn

@ dyre: have you tried installing the latest available vista drivers for your gfx card? and i know what you mean about missing 1280x1024, i feel the same way about my 1600x1200

OK.....

I did install the RC1 ATI drivers with CCC. Discovered that my system DEFAULTED to TV CLONE mode....which restricted screen resolution to 1024x768.

I Disabled that and can now select any resolution my monitor supports.

I'm also NOT getting all that screen corruption like I was getting with earlier CATALYST installed.

So.....still working out the quirks.

Cube623 · Oct 8, 2006, 07:05 PM

hi everyone i'm back, damn internet has been down (curse you Sky Broadband)
anyway

just installed RC2 and i have no aero glass effects?!?!?!

vista detects my card as a X800GT and i get the same index performance rating as i did in RC1 and 5728 but it won't let me use aero and the option to turn it on has gone?

I've installed the latest ATI drivers which work just as well with my X800GT but aero won't turn on like it has been disabled for some strange reason. Anyone know why?

Apart from that RC2 is a lot better than 5728 and RC1, alot faster and it finally supports UT2004

Zardon · Oct 8, 2006, 07:59 PM

aero does work, sounds like you have a bad installation. I know however its turned off if you have 512 meg of ram or less.

dipstick · Oct 8, 2006, 08:43 PM

Does SLI work at all with this version?

Unbornchild · Oct 9, 2006, 03:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

[COLOR=red]I AM FURIOUS!!!!! [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]I selected the CUSTOM installation AND I selected my E: Drive to be the new VISTA system drive JUST LIKE I HAD BEFORE on previous installations!!![/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]BUT.... [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]IT PUT IT ON MY C:\ DRIVE...which is my XP PRO drive.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000]I'm so mad I'm seeing RED!!!!![/COLOR]

That happened because you did not format the Vista partition AND remove the boot sector data using [COLOR=#7e0e0e]BootPart[/COLOR] (install and run it from XP) first. My Vista partition is K:\.
When i reinstalled Vista (from RC1 to RC2), it turned out it had re-assigned the driveletters because it obviously wants to sit on C:\ itself. But booting up XP learned that it still was seeing itself on C:\ as well, it just depends from which OS you look.

You simply must not give it the chance to do that. You reach that goal by formatting then removing the BSD first.
That's the way i put Vista on K:\ again.

Cube623 · Oct 9, 2006, 07:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

aero does work, sounds like you have a bad installation. I know however its turned off if you have 512 meg of ram or less.

i've just reinstalled and still no aero

anyone got the same problem?

Zardon · Oct 9, 2006, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dipstick

Does SLI work at all with this version?

nvidia dont have the drivers ready yet. CF doesnt work either.

Randomletters · Oct 9, 2006, 11:41 PM

Any Working linksys 64bit drivers? I have a PCI adapter, no official 64 bit support from linksys yet, I would switch to 32bit but the download links are no longer active through microsoft.

F1N3ST · Oct 10, 2006, 12:19 AM

Wait, what? Where do i get RC2, i have RC1??

***craig5320*** · Oct 10, 2006, 12:38 AM

Looking good here, linksys wireless-n drivers working a treat, unlike the same drivers on XP SP2!

Sound GFX's all installed great, network setup a sinch

Looks a treat and going strong, where do i reserve my Ultimate copy?

F1N3ST · Oct 10, 2006, 12:44 AM

I want my XP back!!! This crap RC1 is pissin me off, i installed it today, and i like nothing about it but the CPU-Power using eye candy. I cant get my XP back and im very mad.

CDsDontBurn · Oct 10, 2006, 12:47 AM

why can't you? did you lose your winXP install disk? check out rc2 while you're at it.

Zardon · Oct 10, 2006, 01:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by F1N3ST

I want my XP back!!! This crap RC1 is pissin me off, i installed it today, and i like nothing about it but the CPU-Power using eye candy. I cant get my XP back and im very mad.

Rc1 was poor - RC2 is a lot better, you can get your XP back if you reformat the drive, although you really should have set vista up on another drive/partition and kept XP as a standalone OS. if you dont know how to do that, check out the tips and tricks sticky thread in this forum section.

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/windows-vista-forum/120393-vista-tips-tricks.html

drwho · Oct 10, 2006, 01:24 AM

Hey Guys
I've been trying to get RC2 up and running all weekend, but the first time I have to reboot and my desktop comes back up the screen resolution is so big that I can do nothing with it. I'm thinking that this what Dyre Straits was having problems with. Could someone direct me to where i can deactivate this TV Clone he mentioned? One other thing, could someone tell me where I can get the Realtek audio driver, this Build 5744 won't d/l it like it did with RC1 and the 5728 build. I would appreciate some help ASAP as if I have to reboot I'm back to square one again.

drwho

F1N3ST · Oct 10, 2006, 01:41 AM

So, if i reformat, i can get the info from my D:/ partion of my hard drive?

Oct 8, 2006, 08:27 AM	#2
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CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,805 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	oh, sad to hear dyre. but the good news is that i can use my rc1 key....i guess that's good news.... __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

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CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,805 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	@ dyre: have you tried installing the latest available vista drivers for your gfx card? and i know what you mean about missing 1280x1024, i feel the same way about my 1600x1200 __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

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gadabout Im Zaphod Beeblebrox Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 89 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Same Key Well, I installed RC2 this afternoon as a clean install, so I am no help to you Dyre Straits. Now, you can use the same key that you have now. I've been using the same key since Beta 1. Went through the activation process just fine too. All I can say so far is that runs pretty darn good. It seems much "smoother" than RC1. The only devices that don't work for me is my scanner and webcam. Since I rarely use either one, I am not really caring. And besides I still have MCE as a dual-boot. __________________ AMD64 X2 3800+ 2GB DDR400 Dual Channel 250GB SATA Seagate \| 500GB SATA WD (WAS an external HD unit, until closure failed) DVD+/-RW Dual Layer w/ Lightscribe \| Plextor DVD+/-RW Dual Layer ATI MSI RX3870 OC Edition PCI-E 2.0 Windows 7 64bit

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kryten DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Norwich Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	I have been using RC1 on both my laptop and desktop for about 2 weeks. Had some limited driver problems, (Xerox onetouch scanner, VoipVoice USB phone) but everything else was OK, no real differences that I can see, except that RC2 is NOT compatible with CA antivirus 7.2, even though RC1 was. It looks like the UACP raises its ugly head again. Worst thing is, you can't use Windows DVD Maker unless you have a 256Mb Video Card. That sucks as my nasty little Intel 822/825 video card worked just fine under XP.

Oct 8, 2006, 03:07 PM	#14
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 71	mines default to 1280x1024 at first time of desktop was appeared, after the installation finished.

Oct 8, 2006, 03:16 PM	#15
Yik DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Been running stable for me so far, however, no drivers will detect my X800GTO properly, so no Aero. Catalyst RC1 drivers do not work, XP drivers work ok, but do not show my graphics memory, nor does the automatica stock ones. Guess I'll have to wait for ATi to release some new ones?

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Cube623 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: England Posts: 322 Rep Power: 0	hi everyone i'm back, damn internet has been down (curse you Sky Broadband) anyway just installed RC2 and i have no aero glass effects?!?!?! vista detects my card as a X800GT and i get the same index performance rating as i did in RC1 and 5728 but it won't let me use aero and the option to turn it on has gone? I've installed the latest ATI drivers which work just as well with my X800GT but aero won't turn on like it has been disabled for some strange reason. Anyone know why? Apart from that RC2 is a lot better than 5728 and RC1, alot faster and it finally supports UT2004 __________________

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Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	aero does work, sounds like you have a bad installation. I know however its turned off if you have 512 meg of ram or less.

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F1N3ST DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 123 Rep Power: 0	Wait, what? Where do i get RC2, i have RC1??

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F1N3ST DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 123 Rep Power: 0	I want my XP back!!! This crap RC1 is pissin me off, i installed it today, and i like nothing about it but the CPU-Power using eye candy. I cant get my XP back and im very mad.

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CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,805 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	why can't you? did you lose your winXP install disk? check out rc2 while you're at it. __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

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drwho HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Carol Stream, IL Posts: 572 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Hey Guys I've been trying to get RC2 up and running all weekend, but the first time I have to reboot and my desktop comes back up the screen resolution is so big that I can do nothing with it. I'm thinking that this what Dyre Straits was having problems with. Could someone direct me to where i can deactivate this TV Clone he mentioned? One other thing, could someone tell me where I can get the Realtek audio driver, this Build 5744 won't d/l it like it did with RC1 and the 5728 build. I would appreciate some help ASAP as if I have to reboot I'm back to square one again. drwho __________________

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F1N3ST DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 123 Rep Power: 0	So, if i reformat, i can get the info from my D:/ partion of my hard drive?