Originally Posted by Lenny2 (Post 12968677)

Hey if it's an HP we found a shitload of drivers online today that should work. Hit me on ICQ if you want the links.

I managed to get Vista up and running again though.
Apparently when XP sets up a partition on the HD it leaves 8MB of unused space, and Vista did not like this.
I deleted the NTFS partition altogether and rebooted, and the system recovery part of the hard drive took over on restart and reinstalled everything.

So I still lost all my installed programs and almost a week's worth of video encoding just because I wanted to uninstall norton, but at least I'm up and running again.

Originally Posted by Steve Awesome (Post 12969755)

What this proves is that if you buy hardware certified for Vista then it does NOT mean that XP will also work. That's the logic gap. You bought a new machine and then wanted to use an older operating system it wasn't designed for -- and then you bitch about it. Get a fucking clue. I'd like to get my old 5.25 inch floppy drives to work on XP, but can I do that? Fuck no. BIOS' haven't supported that drive type in years.

Assumptions suck.

Originally Posted by Steve Awesome (Post 12969755)

What this proves is that if you buy hardware certified for Vista then it does NOT mean that XP will also work. That's the logic gap. You bought a new machine and then wanted to use an older operating system it wasn't designed for -- and then you bitch about it. Get a fucking clue. I'd like to get my old 5.25 inch floppy drives to work on XP, but can I do that? Fuck no. BIOS' haven't supported that drive type in years.

Assumptions suck.

Originally Posted by cyberxxx (Post 12963762)

As far as I heard, m$ is going to release SP3 for XP with DX10 support. Course it's just a rumor yet. Let's see it's true.

Originally Posted by xmas13 (Post 12969439)

Vista is fucked, should have never been released to the public, it's costing people A LOT OF MONEY, much more than what Microshit earns in revenue from its Vista product.

When Microshit makes a billion, the American public loses another ten.

This company sucks so bad.

Originally Posted by Lenny2 (Post 12975045)

Dude, the missing driver was for the network adapter. Has there been some massive breakthrough in home networking technology in the past 12 months that I'm unaware of?