Hi
Decided to make the jump from XP to Vista 64 Ultimate.
Did a fresh install, formatting the drive, and all semed to install fine. My problems started as soon as I began to use the it. I prefer Firefox so the first thing I tried to do was to open the Firefox homepage in IE7 to download it. However IE7 decided that it likes some sites and not others. When I clicked on the Firefox link IE gave an error mesaage "Internet Explorer Has Stopped Working" and needed closing. In fact if I just opened IE7 to the default 'msn' site and then closed it I got the same error message.
Next I tried to install drivers for my printer which should work with Vista 64. The software insalled but the drivers did not.
I tried installing some Creative X-Fi 64 bit drivers but the system just rebooted half way through and then I got a blue screen of death until I went through the system repair console and it did a system restore!
Next I attempted to install Daemon tools. All that happened is that it tried to the first part where it installs the SPTD driver, it asked to reboot and after the reboot tries to install this same driver. This just goes in a loop.
In tried googling for answers but nothing I found worked. In desperation I did a complete reinstall of Vista 64. No luck. So then I tried Vista Ultimate 32. Again I get EXACTLY the same problems. Now considering going bcak to XP!
Can anyone shed light on these problems? Thanks
Decided to make the jump from XP to Vista 64 Ultimate.
Did a fresh install, formatting the drive, and all semed to install fine. My problems started as soon as I began to use the it. I prefer Firefox so the first thing I tried to do was to open the Firefox homepage in IE7 to download it. However IE7 decided that it likes some sites and not others. When I clicked on the Firefox link IE gave an error mesaage "Internet Explorer Has Stopped Working" and needed closing. In fact if I just opened IE7 to the default 'msn' site and then closed it I got the same error message.
Next I tried to install drivers for my printer which should work with Vista 64. The software insalled but the drivers did not.
I tried installing some Creative X-Fi 64 bit drivers but the system just rebooted half way through and then I got a blue screen of death until I went through the system repair console and it did a system restore!
Next I attempted to install Daemon tools. All that happened is that it tried to the first part where it installs the SPTD driver, it asked to reboot and after the reboot tries to install this same driver. This just goes in a loop.
In tried googling for answers but nothing I found worked. In desperation I did a complete reinstall of Vista 64. No luck. So then I tried Vista Ultimate 32. Again I get EXACTLY the same problems. Now considering going bcak to XP!
Can anyone shed light on these problems? Thanks
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My Computer
System One
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- CPU
- Athlon X2 6000+
- Motherboard
- ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe
- Memory
- 4GB PC6400 DDR2 800
- Graphics card(s)
- ATI Radion 4850
- Hard Drives
- ATA 300 ATA 250 IDE 300 External 300
