Windows Vista Beta 1

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nightRider

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What are the required specs of your system to install it?

Mine:

Pentium 4 1.8 GHz processor

256 MB memory

Free Space: 11 GB

How big does the partition have to be?

I also have an unopened 225 BG harddrive package that I can install if there isn't enough space.

Would Beta 1 kill my system? I am not all that concerned about speed because i know that my comp is slow enough. I'm more going for functionality. :)

And yes, I do have a subscription.

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Trek234

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Yeah, I'm having major issues (again).  I have Intel Graphics 3D 845 and the graphics are all 4 bit and it's 600x400.  When I installed XP I had to download and install the drivers but it's not letting me because of the new OS.  Any help?

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Of course the graphics are low color and low res.

You have a video card that is way WAY WAY below the minimum required for vista video cards. You will never be able to use that card in Vista. It simply can not handle the Vista video requirements.

Upgrade to a real graphics card. That's your only solution.

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Shaidar

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Posting this on Vista. :)

Aero transparency and all other affects work on Dell Inspirion 6000 with ATI Mobility Radeon X300. I wasn't sure if it would.

No errors so far...

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Sigh ... Are you gonna explain how you got that flashy DX desktop? Because it's not even in this beta.

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Of course the graphics are low color and low res.

You have a video card that is way WAY WAY below the minimum required for vista video cards.  You will never be able to use that card in Vista.  It simply can not handle the Vista video requirements.

Upgrade to a real graphics card.  That's your only solution.

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What? It's only 2 years old but a crappy card at that. I'm trying something but if it doesn't work I'm giving up.

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P!P

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What?  It's only 2 years old but a crappy card at that.  I'm trying something but if it doesn't work I'm giving up.

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I have it sort of working. I got it to full color. Web sites look great but the text in Windows itself it messed up. I realized it didn't quite install the right driver but close. I'm trying to change it.

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AgEnTsMiTh

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Everyone seems to have no trouble with installing...am I the only one that cant get past the bootmanager?!

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No, your not the only one. I am having issues on my laptop. I boot from cd, get the loading windows dialog, then the longhorn loading screen and the it just stops doing anything. Must not like my hardware or it may not like my 2nd partition. I have no clue.

Its a newer laptop too. P4 2.8 1 gig of ddr400 80 gig hard drive and a ATI 9600 128mb mobile and integrated wireless. No idea what the issue is.

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Shaidar

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You need a video card that can support DirectX9.

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I'm running it on a fairly high end pc ... click on the 'specs' link in my signature ... And dxdiag tells me I have DX9c installed ...

Still haven't found out how to enable that new desktop ...

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Shekers

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No, your not the only one. I am having issues on my laptop.

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I have tried Vista Beta 1 and Longhorn Server...both get stuck after the second reboot at the bootmanager...it doesnt even show the boot screen

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NienorGT

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Still haven't found out how to enable that new desktop ...

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Run: uxss

(if it's like in the 5048....)

How are you all downloading it so quickly? The quickest i've found is 16 kbps
Well i'm just getting 38K ATM... not inpressive... :unsure:

EDIT2: 56K :D

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tsutton

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I'm running it on a fairly high end pc ... click on the 'specs' link in my signature ... And dxdiag tells me I have DX9c installed ...

Still haven't found out how to enable that new desktop ...

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I just had a look at the Display Drivers with LDDM Support listing and Aeolus 6800GT-DV256 is not listed as far as I can see. However I could be wrong since it requires you to look at the Dxdiag output file and match it.

Have a go with it and see if it's on the list or not.

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depl0y

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I'm running it on a fairly high end pc ... click on the 'specs' link in my signature ... And dxdiag tells me I have DX9c installed ...

Still haven't found out how to enable that new desktop ...

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*sigh* to finally answer your annoying question. That desktop will be available in Beta 2, you gotta do it with Aero right now...

And, damn that installation takes long, I downloaded it last night and woke up to install it this morning but it's progressing REALLY slow.

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