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[JiMbOb789]

Hello everyone, i am thinking of upgrading to vista but i have a problem, windows vista upgrade advisor tells me intel does not support drivers for my graphics card/ controller.

Is there anyway of resolving this?

Have i got to buy anything, if so, what will the price be?

And what does a graphics card/controller do, is it just for watching videos?

Thanks,
Jamie

[Martin_1962]

Hello everyone, i am thinking of upgrading to vista but i have a problem, windows vista upgrade advisor tells me intel does not support drivers for my graphics card/ controller.

Is there anyway of resolving this?

Have i got to buy anything, if so, what will the price be?

And what does a graphics card/controller do, is it just for watching videos?

Thanks,
Jamie

Might be better to take it to XP instead

[TheBoy]

Hello everyone, i am thinking of upgrading to vista but i have a problem, windows vista upgrade advisor tells me intel does not support drivers for my graphics card/ controller.

Is there anyway of resolving this?

Have i got to buy anything, if so, what will the price be?

And what does a graphics card/controller do, is it just for watching videos?

Thanks,
Jamie

What spec machine?  I would only recommend running Vista on modern hardware (ie Core2 chips), and the fact there is no driver for your video suggests yours is quite old hardware...

[kev h]

Personally I would shy away from vista with any machine older than 18 months. Microsoft also recommend running Vista with no less than 2mb ram - although Dell sell new with 512gb on vista!
You will probably need at least a 128mb graphics for vista to run properly as well.
If you can stick to XP I would - it is supposed to be supported for another 2 years (ish) by microsoft, and by then vista will be working properly.
The graphics card is the display driver for your machine, without it your pc will run in the most basic of modes (16 colours and 800 x 600 res).

[iggy21uk]

See artical on the Register about 35% of PC's downgraded from Vista to XP?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/windows_xp_vista_7/

[TheBoy]

Personally I would shy away from vista with any machine older than 18 months. Microsoft also recommend running Vista with no less than 2mb ram - although Dell sell new with 512gb on vista!
You will probably need at least a 128mb graphics for vista to run properly as well.
If you can stick to XP I would - it is supposed to be supported for another 2 years (ish) by microsoft, and by then vista will be working properly.
The graphics card is the display driver for your machine, without it your pc will run in the most basic of modes (16 colours and 800 x 600 res).

By which time Windows 7 will be out.

Vista works well now, but needs up to date hardware.

[TheBoy]

See artical on the Register about 35% of PC's downgraded from Vista to XP?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/windows_xp_vista_7/

The Cartoon Register have become a bit of a joke in the industry lately, always using the Daily Mail style sensationalism type journalistic style.

No matter what stats they use, I fail to see consumer downgrades are more than 1 or 2%.

I'm guessing they are including the corporates who are still selling XP machines (with XP licences), and are somehow including these as downgrades...

[JiMbOb789]

my machine is a samsung v25 and it is over 18 months old unfortunatly

So all in all you think i should stay on xp then.

I tried vistamizer 3 times now but keeps slowing down and crashing my laptop, i dont know why, other people get on fine.

Just a quick question, what is a video accelerator because someone on another forum has done what i was thinking of doing and had the same problem and he says everything worked fine until he went to watch videos or play games (They turnt out really slow) and then he got the idea of a video accelerator, what is it? :-/

Thanks for all the quick reples by the way, im most grateful

[TheBoy]

my machine is a samsung v25 and it is over 18 months old unfortunatly

So all in all you think i should stay on xp then.

I tried vistamizer 3 times now but keeps slowing down and crashing my laptop, i dont know why, other people get on fine.

Just a quick question, what is a video accelerator because someone on another forum has done what i was thinking of doing and had the same problem and he says everything worked fine until he went to watch videos or play games (They turnt out really slow) and then he got the idea of a video accelerator, what is it? :-/

Thanks for all the quick reples by the way, im most grateful

What is the spec of the machine?

Video accelerator is part of the graphics card, and it uses extra inbuilt hardware to improve certain graphical tasks...

[JiMbOb789]

my machine is a samsung v25 and it is over 18 months old unfortunatly

So all in all you think i should stay on xp then.

I tried vistamizer 3 times now but keeps slowing down and crashing my laptop, i dont know why, other people get on fine.

Just a quick question, what is a video accelerator because someone on another forum has done what i was thinking of doing and had the same problem and he says everything worked fine until he went to watch videos or play games (They turnt out really slow) and then he got the idea of a video accelerator, what is it? :-/

Thanks for all the quick reples by the way, im most grateful

What is the spec of the machine?

Video accelerator is part of the graphics card, and it uses extra inbuilt hardware to improve certain graphical tasks...

Well it has 512mb ram, an Intel® 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller (No vista driver), 160 gig hard drive, anything else, just say

[JiMbOb789]

http://www.dealtime.co.uk/xPF-Samsung-V25-XVC-2800-NV25NQ0VLR-SUK

Only difference is i have bought a 160 gig hard drive

[TheBoy]

my machine is a samsung v25 and it is over 18 months old unfortunatly

So all in all you think i should stay on xp then.

I tried vistamizer 3 times now but keeps slowing down and crashing my laptop, i dont know why, other people get on fine.

Just a quick question, what is a video accelerator because someone on another forum has done what i was thinking of doing and had the same problem and he says everything worked fine until he went to watch videos or play games (They turnt out really slow) and then he got the idea of a video accelerator, what is it? :-/

Thanks for all the quick reples by the way, im most grateful

What is the spec of the machine?

Video accelerator is part of the graphics card, and it uses extra inbuilt hardware to improve certain graphical tasks...

Well it has 512mb ram, an Intel® 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller (No vista driver), 160 gig hard drive, anything else, just say

P4, bit long in the tooth now to be honest.  It will run Vista OK with a big memory upgrade, if Samsung don't do vista drivers for the video, you may find the generic Intel one will work.

Personally, I don't think the machine is worth spending the money on to get it up to spec - the amount you will spend on memory and the Vista licence, I would keep to one side and use to replace the machine in a year/18months...

[Martin_1962]

my machine is a samsung v25 and it is over 18 months old unfortunatly

So all in all you think i should stay on xp then.

I tried vistamizer 3 times now but keeps slowing down and crashing my laptop, i dont know why, other people get on fine.

Just a quick question, what is a video accelerator because someone on another forum has done what i was thinking of doing and had the same problem and he says everything worked fine until he went to watch videos or play games (They turnt out really slow) and then he got the idea of a video accelerator, what is it? :-/

Thanks for all the quick reples by the way, im most grateful

What is the spec of the machine?

Video accelerator is part of the graphics card, and it uses extra inbuilt hardware to improve certain graphical tasks...

Well it has 512mb ram, an Intel® 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller (No vista driver), 160 gig hard drive, anything else, just say

Enough RAM for XP

[TheBoy]

my machine is a samsung v25 and it is over 18 months old unfortunatly

So all in all you think i should stay on xp then.

I tried vistamizer 3 times now but keeps slowing down and crashing my laptop, i dont know why, other people get on fine.

Just a quick question, what is a video accelerator because someone on another forum has done what i was thinking of doing and had the same problem and he says everything worked fine until he went to watch videos or play games (They turnt out really slow) and then he got the idea of a video accelerator, what is it? :-/

Thanks for all the quick reples by the way, im most grateful

What is the spec of the machine?

Video accelerator is part of the graphics card, and it uses extra inbuilt hardware to improve certain graphical tasks...

Well it has 512mb ram, an Intel® 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller (No vista driver), 160 gig hard drive, anything else, just say

Enough RAM for XP

not really, unless your needs are just web browsing and bit of email

[Martin_1962]

my machine is a samsung v25 and it is over 18 months old unfortunatly

So all in all you think i should stay on xp then.

I tried vistamizer 3 times now but keeps slowing down and crashing my laptop, i dont know why, other people get on fine.

Just a quick question, what is a video accelerator because someone on another forum has done what i was thinking of doing and had the same problem and he says everything worked fine until he went to watch videos or play games (They turnt out really slow) and then he got the idea of a video accelerator, what is it? :-/

Thanks for all the quick reples by the way, im most grateful

What benefits were you looking for with a cross grade?

We were discussing this yesterday at work, we haven't replaced a work station in ages, as now PCs are generally fast enough, also keep a developer on a not state of art machine, will keep them focused on keeping the code efficient, yes I have sat there changing small amounts of code to tweak say a 30% improvement out of a module.

I do fancy a dual core with about 1.5 to 2 TB of hard drive for video editing