windows vista problems

[romi5484]

i recently purchased a dell xps 1530 and it had windows vista home premium 32 installed on it . for the first 2 weeks it worked fine than gradually the hibernate and the sleep fuctions started booting to windows error recovery when contacted dell the solution was to reinstall windows and then a new series of problems: windows boot manager in which i had to insert the windows cd every time i tried reinstalling windows and after some time the same problems started to appear again now what do i do am thinking of trying windows ultimate

 

[Night Hawk]

It's not the edition of Vista but the need to use the startup repair tool found when booting from the Vista recovery disk as well as making sure the hard drive is first in the boot order not the optical drive. The first preinstall was probably batched to begin with.

For getting past the sleep/hibernate problems you may be better off simply creating your own custom power plan in the power options section in Control Panel. The three default economy, balanced, and performance are better set at performance. Plius you can use the advanced settings to custom suit your own needs saving that as a default power scheme.

 

[romi5484]

I seriously did not get you. I am going to do a fresh install in a couple of days and there are any tips you can give me so that i dont encounter these problems would be a great help .the boot manager screen is very annoying.i have dell xps m1530.

 

[romi5484]

And i also wanted to ask you that the iso copies available on torrent sites are reliable or not

 

[Night Hawk]

As for a clean install of Windows you have the option to start off fresh with a new custom power plan. Wnen going into the Control Panel>power options you simply select the create custom plan option or select one of the three and later go from there into the advanced settings to customize and save. The image shows how I labeled a custom plan as default.



Tnis is how that looks in both Vista and now 7.

 

[romi5484]

ok thanks for that but my real concern is the windows boot manager screen which ultimately starts popping up after some days when i do a fresh reinstall and this has happened 3 or 4 times and previously i was running a custom mode power program but still the problem existed

 

[Night Hawk]

When continually being prompted for boot media at post that usually points to the optical drive set as the first in the boot order. If you reinstalled Windows you may have gotten away with not setting the hard drive first for a few only to then start seeing the prompting. Some with Dell desktops have run into that as well only there seeing the floppy item in the bios added to that.

For torrent site downloads of anything you "do at own risk" would be the motto there. Since 7 is still in beta regardless of build number it's still a "tester's choice" OS rather then the old "Taster's Choice" breakfast entre' they used to advertise! The reason the 7000 build is set as default at the present here is for testing compatibility as well as stress testing iunder load with plenty of startups and evalution while Vista sits nice and safe on it's own drive being a finished working verson seen there.

XP just happens to be sharing the drive presently with 7 in a dual boot. When 8/1/09 comes along XP sees a second storage partition not really needed or gets expanded back into a then empty space where the beta was. Own risk here!

At least there's is support for 7 if you downloaded direct from MS having signed up for the beta and saw it activated on their own forums there. It's still not intended to replace any primary OS now on since it's a beta that could "ccccrashhhhh..." on you without any guarantees in writing.

 

[romi5484]

could you tell me that how to change the boot order when i am reinstalling and i am thinking of vista32 ultimate as a torrent download

 

[romi5484]

and one more thing the sata operation in the bios the factory default is ahci but in my system its ata so what do i do i change it to ahci or just let it remain

 

[Night Hawk]

There isn't much worth in downloading a torrent copy of Ultimate since the main differences between that and Home Premium are increased network support and a few other items like creating a shadow copy of the existing installation. That's why the price tag was seen for about $140 originally.

As far as dual booting with two separate editions it will depend on how you set that up while each can see the other added into it's BCD file which acts as the boot information file there. A free tool called EasyBCD will take care of seeing one added into the other if you install the second as a stand alone on a second drive while the first is unplugged which would be seen in a desktop.

But you can still use that for renaming the entries and setting which would be the default OS with a gui not the command line BCD editor seen. That's found at Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies

When switching back to ahci you will need to have all the necessary drivers onhand otherwise you may end up seeing a big BSOD real fast. You'll want the latest sata drivers ready to go. For the performance gain you have to pay a little there.