Finally all Vista64 Problems Resolved

My experience with Vista64 has definitely been a learning experience, solving one hurdle after another kinda reminded me of trying to stop water from a cracked dam, every time one hole is plugged another stream of water springs forth from a different location.

Personally after a while you begin to wonder is this worth all the trouble?

Its really discouraging when the problems seem to be resolved only to get replaced by a more difficult problem, with their being no blame to lay on Virus's, Trojans, Spyware, Etc. all scanned and being non existent, so what the heck is wrong? Its not hardware, all tests and diagnostics come back good?

But finally after months my Vista64 problems have been resolved, the machine is snappy once again, responds quick, Boots fast, Shuts down fast, Restarts fast, its basically running the best its ever run period!

Why?

How?

The solution is so simple, completely formatted and wiped Vista out and reinstalled WinXP Pro!

Problem Solved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Further down the road when SP2 is released for Vista, I'll probably give it a third try, but not as my main machine unless SP2 is full of miracles, its just not worth it!

And for any of you wanting to defend Vista64 to me, save your freakin time, I've wasted more than enough time on Vista, I could care less what you think!

However the true fix to Vista, is not to use it and save yourself the trouble!

Ryan

I am happy for you!

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I am running an AMD Q9950 BE OCd to 3.2ghz, with 4G of 1066 RAM and WinXp Pro is running just fine, finally got the PCP&C P/S replaced and completed the Centurion 590 build.

It sports an AMD FX60 skt939 w Tuniq Tower 120 cooler, DFI Lanparty NF4-SLI DR M/B, 2G Corsair PC3500 Pro, BFG 8800GT, PCP&C 750W Silencer, also running WinXP Pro, its my secondary gaming machine which will be ethernet direct crossover connected to my primary gamer.

My cousins busting at the seams for some team gaming, so we're going to give it a try!

Hows things over your way?

No I'd give it a 9, had to do a little M/B mounting plate surgery on it, so my wires would fit through the plate, it had pre-stamped holes but they didn't line up with the PCP&C power supply.

They don't quite give enough space to bring the wires behind the mounting plate and side cover, so it was extremely tight, another 1/4" would have made a big difference, but I guarantee the right side panel won't rattle!

Other than those discrepencies it would be a 10 IMO, I did ditch the driver bay quick connect locks, I'm just partial to the mounting screws, but the add in card retention clips I kept, they're the best I've ever seen, they're strong and they work.

Something I'd like to share with you about the Tuniq Tower 120, obviously in the manufacturing of it, its left with a fine coat of an oily substance on the cooling fins, which attracts dust like a magnet, seriously affecting its cooling performance, you can feel the greasy feeling with your fingers.

I removed the cooling fan carriage from mine and washed the heatsink itself in the sink with Dawn dish washing liquid, got all the greasy residue off of it, also re-lapped the heatsink base, for about a total 5c temp improvement.

I guess I'm hooked on the modding aspect of things but I know what I want from the product and if I have to add a little work to improve it I will.

Don't have any pics yet, but I did one of my best wire routing jobs ever, I'm getting pretty good at that if I might say so myself.

Man that MozartTX is one hell of a case!!!

ROFL You're right!

That Clear CMOS is a good idea, years back SOYO included one on its 3 1/2" bay Flash Memory Card reader with its last SOYO Dragon M/B released, was a great feature that I had moved to a couple of M/Bs afterwards and it worked for each one,

ASUS has begun putting a Clear CMOS button accessable on the outside next to the PS2 input ports, thats real convenient and way overdue.

That Mountain Mod Case is a monster, I don't have the room for that thing, of course you could put it in the center of the room and heat the house with it. LOL

badge We've got 4" of snow on the ground here in SC, that doesn't seem like much, but we never seem to get any accumulated snow here at all, so its kinda a treat for us!

Very impressive looking FX60. Great wiring job. I wish we would have had you around when we overhauled my '69 Chevelle SS396. 8) A system like that deserves a clear side panel. This guy uses 'tape' when he makes make one. It's a bit much work, but I've seen more difficult techniques.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpZoE-zj0-k

Well, I like my $20 Rosewill micro case. It is certainly worth that money. The new Antec NEO 550w PSU is very quiet and I feel safe with it. I would buy again. Using only one 4 pin molex lead and one sata lead from the PSU. Great, easy to biuild space saver for a micro. Also. I'm using AMD's Cool and Quiet and unlike Intel's speedstep, Cool and Quiet makes the system seem a bit like me trying to get out of bed in the morning...slow. I haven't built an AMD system for a long while and I do not use Cool and Quiet on any of my older AMD systems, this is the first one I've tried it on. I'll probably leave Cool and Quiet on for now. Maybe when I get a PII, I turn it off and enjoy the raw processing power. Do you know anything about Cool and Quiet? I notice it downclocks the RAM also, which Intel's Speedstep does not. I do like the new 780G board and this system a lot. I think it would be a heck of powerful system with a PII. I prefer a case with a side window to show off what I've built. But, like this last system, I don't have to have it.

I have my Q9450 OC'd to 3.0GHz. 24/7 for months and speedstep is on. Same for my son's Q6600, OC'ed with speedstepping on. All four of my C2D/C2Q systems have speedstepping on. Doesn't effect the ability to OC the processor at all. Reduces heat. A lot of idle time spent with a down clocked processor is a good thing. Cool and Quiet downclocks the RAM, speedstep doesn't. This makes the data transfer rates very slow using Cool and Quiet. This is my experience. I like Speedstep. Not sure about Cool and Quiet.

Chip has onboard memory controller...yep. Cool and Quiet REALLY slows the CPU/RAM data processing function down compared to Intel Speedstep. My experience.

I learned my lessons with Cool and Quiet a long time ago, its fine for someone that has a non gaming, email, internet surfing , picture editing, letter typing, and maybe watch a DVD on their computer, but not for a seriously OCd gaming machine.

Cool and quiet will allow the temps to increase to a level recovery doesn't happen fast enough before trouble arises.

Its more of a problem with AMD cpus with unlocked multipliers, that to attain a higher CPU clock speed along with increasing the multiplier, the Vcore has to be increased.

When you increase the Vcore and cool and quiet decides to drop your fan speed, during your game play, because it determined it was safe to do so when it wasn't, you can be in trouble real quick when you're in the middle of your favorite game, and cool and quiet cannot get the fan speed back up enough to recover to a safe temperature.

I like to set my OCs in balance to my manual fan settings so I know exactly where my temps will be under a full gaming load, then theres no problem with cool and quiet because its disabled, if I want quiet, I turn my fan speeds down, I am the cool and quiet on my machines.

As far as speed step is concerned I don't run Intel, haven't patronized Intel products since 2001, so I don't have a clue as to how good speed step works, and no offense neither do I care, Sorry.

Even my Q6600 spoils me... at stock speed no less. Upgraded from an A64 3800... which I still have around to experiment with Linux and such. Overclocking never seemed to work well for me. I definately can't complain about the speed I do have, though... fastest computer I've ever built.

That Q6600 is an excellent CPU, a great overclocker.

My 16 year old son uses the Q6600 for gaming. He has a 9800GT, 6 gigs of RAM on an ASUS P965. I'll probably take if anything happens to my Q9450 8). I have it at 2.7GHz, a mild OC, but it is completely stable and cool and is running close to 24/7. Like I said I use Speedstep. My wife uses the E8400 and an ASUS G35 with 4 gigs. These systems are all Vista 64. Then I have the E6600 C2D in a Zalman HTPC. OCing the e6600 is on my list of things to do. It's on an ASUS 965G. I mentioned have to install this first:

http://www.silverstonetek.com/prod [...] CMOS&area=

The Zalman black HTPC is pretty nice. I have hooked up to a 40" Samsung 1080p:

http://www.dvhardware.net/review79_zalmanhd160.html

Well, I have the AMD 5000 X2 at 2.9GHz. running all evening with Cool and Quiet on. At this speed when the cool and quiet downclocks the CPU the 'sluggishness' is not nearly as bad. This unit is very quick at 2.9GHz. Ryan where is your FX60 at, what CPU speed? I had to raise the RAM voltage a bit to get to 2.9 and the Vcore is at Manufactuer retal price. This micro system is faster than my OC'd FX55 at 2.8Ghz. and it is pretty snappy. The system appears to be quite a lot faster than my 4800X2 socket 939 which is at 2.6Ghz. I hope so 8). I just updated the firmware on the two DVD RW's in here. Onboard crossfire looks very good palying a DVD at 1680 x 1050, 700:1 CR, 5ms. Not as good as my 22" 1080p, 20,000:1, 1900X1080, 5ms with 2 x 3870. I've gone mad...ahhhhhhhhh!