Vista Sucks. But you already knew that.

doodirock

Shared on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 13:53

So I did a simple Ram swap yesterday to upgrade from 2gigs to 4gigs on my work machince. Everything seemed to go as planned, but when I rebooted I got a memory failure screen and had to shut down. No worries I thought, I'll just go back to the old 2 gigs and live with what I already had. Right? Wrong. I booted back into Vista and all I got was a black screen. Nothing more. No error, no failure, no reboot, just black. At least when XP dies you KNOW shit is going wrong. Blue Screens of death litter your screen and the impending doom of white text on blue backgrounds lets you know your time is up.

So 6 hours later of searching for fixes I'm finally off to the store to buy a new hard drive, new ram, and reinstall vista. As many people know this is an all day event just to get back to the beginning of where you were. Then comes the fun part of trying to salvage everything you had (which between clients and 2o2p is A LOT) and get it to the new install. I'm finally back up with this XP install and wondering if I should even bother going back. In short, Vista sucks. But you already knew that.

Comments

DeadDrPhibes's picture
Submitted by DeadDrPhibes on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 20:38
Glad you got everything back.. Windows 7 is just Vista with a couple of bug fixes.. Get a mac with the wireless backup drive for pissakes.
Kwazy's picture
Submitted by Kwazy on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 21:31
What Ceasar said. Ran into that same problem myself.
ProvingUnique's picture
Submitted by ProvingUnique on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 13:56
glad to see your running again,.. hope you recover all you need.
ekattan's picture
Submitted by ekattan on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 13:57
Vista = Windows Me.
TANK's picture
Submitted by TANK on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 14:06
Stick with XP and wait for Windows7
Caesar's picture
Submitted by Caesar on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 14:06
man that sucks, are you running vista 64? if your runnning 32 that will be an issue bumping to 4 gig thats why i could go to 3 gig on xp otherwise i would have had to bump to xp 64 good luck with the reinstall, ive done it so many times ive grown to like it lol
doodirock's picture
Submitted by doodirock on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 14:10
@ekattan Couldn't agree more. I got Vista for free which should have been my first warning that it sucked. I installed it and didn't really have any issues until last night. Then again, when I got my ghosted XP install up this morning I realized just how much faster it was then Vista. Games loaded faster, frame rates were better, and programs didn't tax the system as much.
Lala Calamari's picture
Submitted by Lala Calamari on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 14:51
I've given up on Vista completely. I run Ubuntu. For work I have Ubuntu with Windows XP running in VirtualBox.
FreynApThyr's picture
Submitted by FreynApThyr on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 14:57
haha. Doodi broke his computer. lolz
ATC_1982's picture
Submitted by ATC_1982 on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 15:04
could of saved you money and told you vista sucks to begin with
fatLUNCH's picture
Submitted by fatLUNCH on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 15:14
Bah.. you all are just haters!! While it might be ok for home pc's to wait for Windows 7.. Corporations shouldnt wait for Windows 7 to upgrade.
FadeIntoBlack's picture
Submitted by FadeIntoBlack on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 08:00
Sucks man. Vista makes me sad. Know where you are coming from.

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