Vista Premium?
 

Hey guys...I've had my computer since early February and i've had quite a few problems with Vista. Firstly im forever getting error messages and programs are no responding. Its getting to the point where i want to upgrade it but i feel i need a more reliable OS. Anyone else had this problem?

Also what's the difference between Sata and Sata2? Can i still use my sata drives with a sata or sata2 cable?? I know sata2 has a locking mechanism

is your vista 32 or 64? it could be compatibility problems

im unsure about sata and sata2 but im guessing it will be like USB and USB2.0 so just data speed i could be wrong

and if you need a more reliable OS go back to XP for a while if you have the disk and wait untill windows 7 comes out or download the windows 7 beta version

i never had any problems with windows vista and im running Vista Ultimate 64-bit SP1

hope some of that helped you

Cheers dude thats helped, i asked on another forum about the Sata/Sata2 question they're both the same. :D Funky UV cables here i come :cheer2:

no problem always happy to help :flame:

computers are about my only strong point lol :p

They're my strong point just hate difference between hardware :frusty:

lol i love hardware talkin bout hardware i need to upgrade some of mine lol

Same :D Need a whole new mobo...maybe something that holds a silly amount of RAM :o and some new HDD...i seem to be using my HDD space asif its going out of fashion! :eek: I feel a little nerd'ish talking about computers :D Bloody love it ;)

yea i new mobo wouldnt go a miss for me or a new graphics card actualy a whole new computer lol :p
i need more ram than anything else but my computer dosent like more than 2GB for some reason :(

Thats something to do with vista :D everyone i know who upgraded their ram more than 2 Gig their comp didn't reckonise it.

my comp recognizes it but if i start playing games or using alot of RAM it just shuts my computer off so i dont know the problem lol
my dads computer has 4GB DDR3 and it runs fine :(

DDR3 :eek: lucky sod!! Jealous i am!! i was looking into DDR3 and its costly!

OK since were on the subject of Vista maybe you geeks or I mean guys can help me out.
I have the home edition on my computer and every so often, usually when im in the middle of something and havent saved in a few minutes, it will just automatically shut everything down to update. I have attempted to disable this f'n insane function but havent been successful. Any tips short of tracking down the software engineer responsible and castorating him !

Possibly by re installing home edition that might work as it could be a corrupt update file or something.

yea probs best trying to reinstall it :p
so have you turned off automatic updates or it wont let you? :confused:
altho i cant say i have heard of that problem lol

they DDR3 he got was £70 for 2GB
its not that bad depense what make it is and what speed lol

£70? God thats tooo cheap! I was look at 4GB of DDR2 1066Mhz that was £90 :D I'm saving up for a new motherboard now ;)

what motherboard you saving for?
i want this one CLICK ME

Thats pretty good, probably something a wee bit cheaper. Although i might consider that when i start college in September :)

my motherboard i have right now is a Asus Striker Extreme lol
what you going to study at college :p
im at college right now doing Computer Support