Those who are waiting for the next service pack for Vista are putting in time well spent. I expected a hard time finding drivers. I did not expect how unstable Vista is. Vista is sensitive. There are many bugs in the new features added to Vista. The most frequent bug is memory access violations. I don’t know why the OS can’t just handle the violation, instead I see frequent blue screens. The only safe thing is to not do anything, and that’s not entirely safe. I’ve blue screened at every stage. The personalized login page crashes, so I couldn’t login to Vista. Upon rebooting, I got a blue screen for a “device adapter less than or equal to”; whatever than means. Explorer tends to restart a lot. The Superfetch likes to crash when renaming folders. Vista Ultimate has a nice feature that allows a video background. Unfortunately, the slightest error causes the feature to turn off. A little blame box pops up, “it was probably the video background… crash”. Some of my favorite exceptions are “PFN_LIST_CORRUPT”, “win32k.sys”, “IRQ_LESS_OR_EQUAL”, and “SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION” which all result in a blue screen. I’m ready to join the mob bleeding for Vista SP1. One positive, is each time I install a Windows update, my system gets a little more stable. And it’s nice being able to access all 4GB of ram. “Problem Reports and Solutions” is a nice tool.
With my ASUS P5N-E SLI it was necessary to update the BIOS to version 0608 to fix some of the constant lock-ups and blue screens.
One way to see if you have any driver problems is to simply go to Start > run and enter: [verifier.exe]. While verifier is active, there are way more blue screens. Collect all the data. It will help identify what hardware is causing grief. Be sure to disable verifier during normal use. That should limit the amount of blue screens.
Vista 32-bit:
This windows update fixes choppy sound when listening to music like [Pandora.com]. ===Marvell – Networking – NETGEAR WN121T Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter===
SUSE:
If Vista continues to be unstable, one alternative is to install a [SLED or BLADE].
