anyway, one thing i do have a prob with vista, as it doesent read the disc as soon as i put it in. I have to explore the disc contents only then it reads it. When i got to my computer it displays the info on the last cd i put in or soince the lat time i explored the drive. this gets annoying sometimes. I got a LG DVD dual layer writer and writes everything apart from HDDVD and blu ray, and an old asus 52x cd reader.
I don't have that problem. I am dissapointed that MS however has kept no support for 16bit ISA soundcards :P I had to use my onboard audio on my test rig (specs stated a page or so back). Also it's graphics drivers are limited to Nvidia,Radeon, SIS,VIA and Intel based gfx cards and I think a few others but not many. So my matrox millenium or my trident Cyblade i7 (the onboard video) all come up as standard VGA and it's really annoying as all movement is jerky :P. I think if I had a better gfx card in there then the system would be a bit more stable. Still 512meg of ram is not enough if it's on a 1.1GHhz. Mind you the ram is only 100Mhz, still I'd say 768 as bare minimum on a setup like this would do fine. There are annoyances and then there aren't. But I'm still going to stick with Xp and 98SE untill modern progs don't work with XP at all.
lol ahem *cough* *cough*. No I do have several other soundcards, my experiment was to see if it had any support for older gear :P I'm going to take one of my ram chips out next and see if it runs on 256 and then 128, 64 meg and hell maybe even 32:P
lol ahem *cough* *cough*. No I do have several other soundcards, my experiment was to see if it had any support for older gear :P I'm going to take one of my ram chips out next and see if it runs on 256 and then 128, 64 meg and hell maybe even 32:P
That's not a good test I don't think, the trick with Vista is to
install it with the lowest ram and it will adjust to what is
available. I don't think it has any way to adjust after it's already
installed. Please let us know how it works out though.
It refuses to begin installing if theres less than 512 in. At least when I forgot to change my ram around at first it begins but then displayed a dialogue box with no text and a button which when clicked restarts the computer, or it turned it off I can't remeber which. That may ahbe been due something else though.
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No they work... It's something else that doesn't work... You know, the code that unlocks full features of the software. :badgrin:
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And I doubt it'll even boot on 64MB.
install it with the lowest ram and it will adjust to what is
available. I don't think it has any way to adjust after it's already
installed. Please let us know how it works out though.
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Well ofcourse not, especially when it doesn't work with it!
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P3 Tualatins can go up to 1.6 GHz and it fits 1 GB of RAM plus an AGP slot. With the right stuff, should have no problem running Vista.