Category Archives: Vista
I heard the screen door slam
and a Took away my old man… Joni Mitchel ~1970
Vista Reliability
The red Xes are all application failures. Debatable whether that really reflects “system reliability”. There are two cases, case one, where you have a perfectly good application that craps out because of system issues – this seems to relate to … Continue reading
More Vista Fun
The red Xs are disruptive shutdowns caused by power failures. This is the reliability chart from my old machine running Vista Business 32bit . I really expected the new machine running Vista 64bit to be the same. Interestingly the less … Continue reading
Vista fun
So later on July 1, I installed Vista 32 bit Ultimate. After the install finished, I started installing the motherboard drivers. About half way through the machine did a random reboot. Guess it wasn’t Vista 64 bit after all. I … Continue reading
Vista random reboots.
Boy talk about speaking too soon!!! Shortly after the last post my new machine started going on a reboot rampage. An average of once an hour. 31 times yesterday. Things seemed to be getting better then I installed a WinTV1800 … Continue reading
Vista random reboot re-visited
Ever since I made the memory timing change I’ve not had a single random reboot. Guess that was the ticket! I made the change June 14th, so it’s been two weeks, safe to say “stable” I think.
Vista Ultimate and the random reboot of doom
Been running Vista Business 32 bit for a bit more than a year. Pretty stable, few problems. Problems revolved around iTunes and Phase One’s Capture One. CO would only run if I was logged on as administrator iTunes was just … Continue reading
Building a new PC
Started awhile ago. Bought case and PSU first, then a HD and DVD writer. Then came the hard part. Which mother board? Needed to decide on the mobo next as it would possibly restrict CPU and RAM choice. Got an … Continue reading
