[lilxkid24]

ive been going a bit hectic with my computer these couple days. I formatted to vista yesterday because xp was having freeze ups or something but after installing sp1 on vista and everything else vista gave me nothing but trouble, drivers not being found.. slow as hell transfer rate, i had to transfer like 7gigs of data from a data dvd and vista just couldn't do it, it was givin me too much trouble, so i formmated back to xp late at night lol, now its a mess need to reinstall everything once again. Now never going back to that junk vista ever again sticking with xp until windows 7 is out :^0

[coastie65]

Hey lil, I think you would have better off working on the freeze up problem. Now look at all the aggravation you have caused yourself. :D With a reformat and reinstall, you should be fine. coastie

[lilxkid24]

i tried to fix the freeze up problem wasn't viruses scanned everything twice not driver issues everything was up to date. I was just getting weird crazy lags when i click dl something it takes 6secs for it to pop up, start menu kept lockin up when i right click somethin to open with that took 6 secs as well, and opening everest just got all the processes not responding so i was pissed at xp so went to vista but then had other issues encountered on vista so went back to xp.

[coastie65]

I think I would have run CCleaner and did a defrag before going the extreme route. coastie

[lilxkid24]

I did that as well i ran everything before i gave up on options, even deleted my user account and started a new one.

[rtfire1]

I am woundering if your having a hardware problem? also what are you system specs lil the few pcs i have put vista in all but one case made it a much better pc

[coastie65]

I take it you didn't go to task manager and see what may have been running in the background. That kind of thing, more often then not, turns out to be a graphics issue. coastie

[Tech4me]

If You did what you said you did......Look like you did most everything but....REFORMAT.....DO A CLEAN INSTALL...PUT WDs VIsta back on....you'll be flying.

Then you know for sure , there is not a hardware failing.

Other than that....You will keep guessing around.

[rtfire1]

I just thought about something lil you where having issues with xp went to vista your still having issues but no post for help.

[rtfire1]

So i am cleaning out my basement and getting everything how i want it. so I am keeping a pI laptop with windows 95 (sometimes people ask me questions and it nice to have the os when your being asked questions), A pII laptop with windows 98 on it, maybe a pIII laptop with windows me on it, and then i have my servers with win2000 and winxp installed on diffrent drives (there duel but incase I need to use them as gaming pcs when we have a lan party). So after keeping those laptops and the parts laptop for one of the kids laptops i found i have 6 laptops I am going to be passing on to a friend that fixxs up laptops for kids and fams in need. My wife is so on board with this plan she even offered to help load the stuff thats leaving in to her car for the drop off (I am not sure if she is being nice or she wants it gone that bad). Now I am on a hunt for keyboards so i can use the docking stations I have for the diffrent laptops.

[lilxkid24]

i was spiking 100% on cpu when it was freezing. I went to vista had hardware issues didnt feel like postin then had to transfer 7gig of rar stuff from a cd and vista just blew it couldnt transfer it was taking way too slow. Now im back on xp again everythings 100% good

[Adama]

rtfire1 said:

My wife is so on board with this plan she even offered to help load the stuff thats leaving in to her car for the drop off (I am not sure if she is being nice or she wants it gone that bad).

Oh yeah, she wants it gone! LOL



:p

[snorg]

lilxkid24 said:

Now im back on xp again everythings 100% good

Good, now youre back where we belong........

XP is 1000% good!!

[coastie65]

I just installed SP3 in this thing + all the updates so we'll see. :D

[Adama]

Alright, Coastie, you took the plunge to SP3!!!!!!!

[snorg]

h1. Welcome aboard Coastie.

[coastie65]

:D yeah, I finally gave into that thing. Funny, because with Win 2k pro, I never hesitated to upgrade the SP.

[snorg]

h1. careful Coastie, PC can drive you nutz........

[coastie65]

:^0 Not me, I know how to turn the thing off. It seems to be doing pretty good now. I guess it takes it a while to warmed up. Maybe IT needs a preheater.

[Adama]

Today I went to Taco Bell and had their new Nachos. OMG, it was huge! and it was delish too! :D

I'll definitely have that one again!