BleepingComputer.com: Vista is acting weird...

What does the CD say on the label?

Never mind! I figured it out! Thanks for your help, but now there is another problem...

I formatted my hard-drive and re-installed Vista successfully, but when I then booted up, my computer was running exceptionally slow. I thought that it would fix itself, so I started installing all the necessary drivers and applications! This went well and I was glad that I could finally start playing again! yay!

I played Fallout 3 for a few days... BLUESCREEN!!! and then my computer died!!!

I find this very annoying... I blame Vista! What I want to do now is go back to good ol' XP! I read about some dudes who turned XP and Vista against each other in a test to see witch of them is faster. I turns out Vista only performed well when it comes to all things video-like , while XP beat Vista in all other tests! Tests included Power Consumption, 3D-games, Video, Audio, Applications and I don't know what Synthetic means, but I guess it was important!

And now I turn to you, Great Brains! Do you think it will be a good idea to downgrade(should I call it upgrade)? Will my built-in-fingerprint-thingy work? I think I'll definitely do it!

Thank you in advance!

This post has been edited by Mcwierdo: 07 January 2009 - 12:58 PM

Vista is blamed for many problems that it does not cause.

Where did you get the drivers that you installed? If they weren't from the manufacturer of each hardware device, then they aren't likely to be the most recent versions.

Most BSOD's on games (I'd guesstimate 60% or so) are caused by corrupted video drivers. So the quickest thing to do is to visit the website of the manufacturer of the graphics chipset and download the latest driver from there.

I got all drivers from Acer.com. They are the right ones and all are the latest. I'm sure, I checked!

While they may be the latest drivers at the Acer site, they won't necessarily be the latest drivers available.
Also, this does not rule out a corruption of the currently installed drivers.

I'd suggest installing the latest video drivers from the website of the video chipset manufacturer (ATI, nVidia, Intel, etc)

Hey, I thought it over and I think that Vista probably isn't fully compatible with the world, yet. I'll use XP for a year, and then I'll give Vista another chance.

Thank you for all your help! It was really useful!

Maybe I'll be back with questions later!

Do you know if there are any free driver scanning programs? You know, software that scans your computer to see which drivers need updating? I found a few programs, but they all cost munneh! Are there any free ones?

Nothing that I know of for free - but drivers are available on your computer manufacturer's website, so it's easy to visit there to see if there's any updates that they recommend.

I've used this program before (it's free): http://driveragent.com/?q=driveragent&...etjf7qhv7t9g666
The results are a bit confusing tho' - so it'll take some studying to figure out which driver is the one that you need. In short, it usually gives too much information, listing drivers individually - where your computer will use packages that contain several of the drivers.

You can have issues with driver updates also, so the generally accepted practice is to only update drivers if you're having issues (If it ain't broke, don't fix it!)

This post has been edited by usasma: 08 January 2009 - 08:58 AM

Oooh, thanks! That helped!

Hey, err... Now I'm having problems with installing XP! I get to the installation screen, but it says that it can't find any hard-drives to install on! What is going on!?!

Ahhh...the first hitch in an XP installation!
What kind of hard drive do you have?

If it's IDE, then you've either got a problem with the hard drive, or there's some issues with the cabling (could be other stuff also, but those are the most common).

If it's SATA, you'll have to load the SATA drivers at the beginning of the installation process. At the bottom of the page it'll say something like "Press F6 to install SCSI/RAID drivers" - that's when you'll install the SATA drivers. You'll either need to extract them to a floppy and use that, or slipstream them into your XP installation CD.

you need to make a boot cd and then after that put it in and restart. it will do it for you. save your stuff first though.