I have the same processor and amount of ram and have a similar issue with it. I have it on a second pc for testing and it pretty much needs rebooted every morning if i happen to leave it running over night. :(

I'm running Vista with no issues, yet.

As much as I don't like the Vista OS, I just have to go with the flow and like it till the next mac-iVista os comes out.

What's so bad about vista anyway? I think 99% of the problems are from people who have old/incompatible hardware...

I run Vista and it blows the doors off of XP. A lot of what you hear about Vista is total BS FUD...Most of it is descended from a review on Tomshardware that was done before proper drivers were out.

As well I have a USB stick in with a 4 gig readyboost cache. It flies.

I have noticed sometimes my hard drive goes into a endless whirling around and i have had to shut off and restart to get out of it so whether thats a vista prob i don't know.I only recently purchased a acer pc as my dell was starting to seriously play up after 6-7 years of use.

My laptop is 100% Vista compatible, all the way down to the intel wireless. Thus, it runs Linux.

Vista has much stronger hardware requirements, but basically, it's XP with a prettier skin where everything runs directly through DirectX to give it the 'lickable interface.'

The last go-around, oeople were saying that XP was basically 2000 with themes, which for the most part was true.

Vista is a bit more, but it's a hog for what it does. If you don't need the pretty bells and whistles (Let's see, the new WinFS didn't make it.. the firewall is still a joke, and other than having the ability to buy up into turning your computer into a prettier DVD player), there's not that much of a need for it.

...and whoever said NT 3 was decent does not remember NT3. NT 3.51 was the first usable release of NT, and NT4 is still a staple found doing various OEM and proprietary tasks, all of these years later.

That is the problem. Well, that and most people are just retarded.

You just proved my point. The crappy companies you do business with were too lazy or incompetent to do a firmware upgrade and somehow that's MS fault. Vista isn't gpoing anywhere you just took advice from retards. Please list these compnaies so I know whose products to avoid buying.


Actually I still use XP dipshit.

First idiots like you complain the XP sucks and is not secure. So MS revamps it's OS and in doing so hardware needs to have firmware upgrades. Now you bitch about that. So what you are saying is that MS should have just made a OS pretty much like XP which people like you bitch about being too insecure. So when that OS gets hacked to peices because of it's similarity to XP you'll have somehting else to bitch about. But hey at least the fucktard from the company you bought you POS hardware from don't have to get their lazy asses off the couch and do some actual work.

If MS OSes suck so much why not get an Apple or use Linux?

No I don't. Anyways do you use MS products. I bet you do. So what does that make you?

Those motherfuckers. Too late now, I already bought my new desktop and had to do all that shit myself.

Vista has been working pretty stable for me..I actually like it much better

Whats the down grade called? Asta La Vista?

I will stick with XP for at least another year until Vista is actually stable and they make all the new drivers for high end hardware.

XP works great for me really I don't see any reason to upgrade.

the only problems i've experienced with vista is the lack of driver compatibility and availability of vista-friendly software.

i think in a year or so it will catch up, but for now it's just too early.

I'll wait maybe 6 month to a year before I install it.
Eventually we'll all install it anyway (except linux/mac users obviously)

I can't wait until Windows Vienna comes out because it's written from scratch. XP and Vista are just updated versions of Windows NT. If you think compatibility is bad going from XP to Vista just wait... :thumbsup

i use windows since version 3.11, i know where everything is and don't have to think about how things are done. i don't want to spend my time learning a new OS. but i just read that they will deliver security updates for XP until 2014 - so i'm not in a hurry looking for alternatives :upsidedow