Topic: Vista Beta

[Anole]

Just finished the install on this machine and posting from it. I'm a bit frustrated as I expected so this will be short and sweet for now.

Overall, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The biggest problem, and one that folks should be aware of is the complete lack of SATA drivers (this is build 5384). Beat my head up against that one for quite a while before I was able to get the drivers in so I could pick drive to install on. If anyone has tried the install with SATA drives and gave up in frustration shoot me a PM and I can give you a walk through on how to get your drivers installed so you can get past all that.

The biggest surprise is that all but one of my devices, including video (Nvidai Geforce 6600) and my wireless NIC (Motorola something) came up working without having to manually install any drivers. The one exception isthe on board audio. But I'll tackle that tomorrow when I start playing with it a bit. I have to say, the Aero stuff is pretty slick.

[up10ad N9RJH]

Aero was about the only thing I enjoyed about my experience with Vista.  What are you going to run on your system, just a general test bed?  I ran into problems when I added Office beta 2.  The funny thing is, I have been using Office beta 2 on my production desktop system at work for months without a problem.  I was able to determine that all models of my DSL modems (Cisco, Zoom, Netopia and Visionnet) do work fine with Vista, via ethernet an even with the USB drivers.  What is going to be a nightmare for me is tech support over the phone to help my customers relax the security enough to do what they need to do, especially those that want to set up a VPN.

[Anole]

Yes this is a test bed system. It's the machine my wife and daughter use for their day to day stuff and they know not to store any critical data on it. Anything important goes on the server. This way I can get some real world evaluation out of it since it's not going to be a machine that just sits there with Vista on it.

The machine is a dual-boot setup with XP just in case they need more reliability.

Just installed the Office beta and so far so good, though I did just see a really weird thing happen. When I clicked on the link:

http://www.wxforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=485#485

in Outlook, it sent me to Chris's site:
http://www.capeweather.com/

It's doing it consistently too.

Biggest problem at the moment is the audio drivers. Can't find anything that will work.

I also need to figure out how to get it to let me log on to the local machine instead of the domain.

[capeweather]

Just installed the Office beta and so far so good, though I did just see a really weird thing happen. When I clicked on the link:

http://www.wxforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=485#485

in Outlook, it sent me to Chris's site:
http://www.capeweather.com/

It's doing it consistently too.

Hi Larry,
It probably has something to do with my .htaccess for capeweather.com. Anytime somebody puts in a wrong url or a link is incorrect it will automatically redirect that person to the main page without giving them a 404 error. I'm wondering why it's doing that with wxforum.net. I guess maybe because its an addon domain. I might have to investigate that or just turn it off. Sorry about that.  

Heres what I added to my .htaccess to have forwarding..

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ErrorDocument 404 http://www.capeweather.com
ErrorDocument 403 /v-web/errdocs/403.html
ErrorDocument 401 /v-web/errdocs/401.html
ErrorDocument 500 /v-web/errdocs/500.html
ErrorDocument 400 /v-web/errdocs/400.html

Chris

[Anole]

Nope. Wasn't anything like that. This was an outlook/ie7 problem. If I clicked any link in any email it was opening your site instead. Problem went away after a restart.

Very strange and reported to MS.