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Been trying to get my windows media center 2005 pc that I purchased in Jan 2006 to upgrade to windows vista.
Well ok I have installed it with no problems but when trying to get the normal things working even with the new drivers the thing just wont run proper and there is always something that don’t seem to want to work right under it.
Should I just give up on upgrading to vista all together, wait a while or is there a real need to purchase a new system?
Thanks all
[ This Message was edited by: xboxman on 2007-07-14 19:03 ]
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Posted: 2007-07-14 19:56:31
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Give up for now and wait a while
There are still quite a lot of driver issues with Vista, especially if you're upgrading a machine built for xp media center. The problem is, a lot of computer manufacturers used obscure hardware in their media center PCs and the hardware manufacturers haven't got round to releasing fully working Vista drivers for these weird and wonderful cards yet.
Having said that, my bog-standard Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card still won't work properly with Vista Ultimate so it's not just the customised stuff either!
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Posted: 2007-07-14 20:23:52
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well i installed from windows media center i bought in nov 2006 virtually pain-free..ly
only thing that hasnt wrked since is a little button on the keyboard for muting the sound, it works just doesnt light up, yet all other buttons seem to work. But i asked compaq and apparently it blew during the upgrade, somehow
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Posted: 2007-07-14 20:27:34
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As I said, it depends on the PC manufacturer. For example, Medion once used some kind of god-awful combined graphics and TV/video capture card which was made by ATI. All well and good, except ATI don't have even the XP driver for it on their site, never mind the Vista driver.
Medion don't have the XP or Vista driver either on their site. They tell you to 'use your restore disk'
Or at least they didn't have the drivers. I must admit, I haven't hunted for these drivers for several months now so the situation may have changed, but I do know that ATI still do not support this card.
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Posted: 2007-07-14 20:37:17
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the only pain i had was with my creative xfi souncard which didnt let me use my 7.1 surroundsound, but i new this was a already know problem so wasnt to bad, and was fixed about a month or so ago.
shame my psu on my desktop pc went bang lastnight lol. mesh computers need to be shoot for putting a 550watt psu with a pc with an 8800gts lol. silly ppl.
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Posted: 2007-07-14 20:57:14
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well i have a philips freevents mt2400
i have just run the upgrade advisor cpu system memory dvd drive and video card no action required.
realtek high def audio device will need an updated driver, which i know they have.
realtek rtl8169/8110 family gigabit ethernet nic, 802.11g pci wireless network adapter, wan miniport, hauppague wintv 88x crossbar and hauppague wintv 88x dvb-t hybrid tuner there is no compatibility data for this device.
then says hauppague wintv 88x video, hauppauge wintv 88x ts capture and hauppague wintv 88x audio capture no issues found
as for programs
adobe audition 2.0, powerdvd and ati desktop component may have minor compatibility issues
Now the problem i was having was getting most of the programs just wouldnt work like they should thats why i restored my pc back to xp.
so what your saying is give it a little longer?
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Posted: 2007-07-14 21:26:42
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Oh right! In what way are they not working? Are you using the 64 bit version of Vista?
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Posted: 2007-07-14 21:35:54
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no using the (is it) 32bit version vista premium
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Posted: 2007-07-14 21:54:37
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the programs just wouldnt run correctly like at one point i couldnt use the internet no matter what i tried it would say that it couldnt find the sites i was looking for not even google would work. adobe audition os the one that i really need to work but that wouldnt work at all not sure if adobe even still support it even though they are still selling it doesnt metion anything about vista and a patch for it.
another thing flash player programs like the aol broadband disk wouldnt work at all
perhaps i should give it another go but need to make sure audition before anything else will work ok
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Posted: 2007-07-14 22:00:37
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Yes, it sounds like you need to stick with XP
You sound like you know what you are doing so if you can't find solutions to these problems yourself then it's unlikely that myself or anybody else can to be honest. There are tons of software compatibility issues with Vista, it is just a waiting game for updates and patches I'm afraid.
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Posted: 2007-07-14 22:00:41
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