These websites might help you:

http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/17904149.html

Vista Driver Problems ... etal

Hi,

I've just signed onto this less than one week ago. I have Vista Home Premium, 32bit. My World Rice gathered 100%, completed. The CPU time for world Rice was 10:01:02. Currently I'm at 14+ and 34+ % for Fight Aids and Human Proteome, respectively. I have Comcast high speed.

I am using an older computer (SONY VAIO), that we upgraded with additional hardware and the Vista installed over Win XP Media Center Ed. and then Win XP Pro last summer, 08. We gutted the 2004 SONY V and switched it to an older Micron Millennia case I bought at a yard sale for $50 (larger chassis and superior aeration under the raised bottom with internal cleaning much easier).

We did buy two new HDs and more RAM . The SONY HD basically came within a hair of being totally unusable after only 4 years-then crashed, and we are in the process of cleaning that one up and salvaging whatever we can from it. We have another 500 GB external (not hooked up or involved in this at all). I had a lot of trouble with Vista at first, esp. with my sound card (also upgraded). I had bought it after it had been out a while, so couldn't figure out why it had so many problems in the spring of 2008.

Basically, we were suffering from driver problems not being able to work with our media programs. It was terrible at first, and I was at my wits end. I knew that I was doing exactly what I needed to do. I even lost the use of my DVD drives and had to do searches to find out how to replace the drivers without having to buy additional software. As it was, I ended up buying some driver software (not knowing it was just a demo) - Driver Genius - a worthless misnamed coaster- at Best Buy, that I could have simply downloaded for free (to demo) from a website.

After many sleepless hours, I found the help I needed on some obscure web tech forum (in Germany, I think) and read what others had to say about similar DVD driver problems. It was a very small registry tweaker. It worked like a charm. That finally got me thru my initial sufferings with Vista HP, and, including a Digidesign driver update that healed my sound problems, basically. It took several months. (Phew) I haven't had any problems since then.

So far, I'm good to go. I would keep on Microsoft about it, post in their forums, etc. As far as computers go, I am basically self-taught. My husband is great with the hardware installation upgrades, and I am the PC software amateur turning pro.

Chrstin

PS-My 2000 Dell Celeron with Windows ME is still running. It's never been serviced and only upgraded by us. Go figure.



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