justanotherdayinparadise is your graphics card fan noisy after the upgrade if not what driver are you using is it one you download or did it come with the upgrade kit!
E520...that means you have the funny motherboard. So good you have 4gb 667. Probably no issues at all for you.
I have E1505 and 2 gb 667mhz 5400 to go with my intel 950 graphics accelerator. I did have just one gig of 553mhz 4200 but kept running out of memory in vista.
I did the upgrade with dvd assistant after deleting all the bloatware...netzero,earthlink,google,aol and Norton. I also declined the Dell Agreement (really a google trap) and it deleted itself.
My upgrade is flawless. I did however have to download the touchpad drivers as my touchpad lost its scrolling capability. Just went to drivers and download section under vista and was up and running.
By not blanking the hard drive i still have my quick restore feature although disabled; it is still there and very fixable. Like any Dell veteran I have my copy of Goodell Quick Restore fix on CD already. Dell incorporates the quick restore feature on Dell Computers with Vista Installed but upgrade customers will not have the program.
don't forget that dual boot will cause your vista restore points to be erased. so everytime you go to xp you will need to set a new restore point in vista when you get back.
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justanotherdayinparadise is your graphics card fan noisy after the upgrade if not what driver are you using is it one you download or did it come with the upgrade kit!
I'm using the NVIDIA driver that Vista downloaded automatically during Windows Update after installing Vista. I haven't noticed an increase in fan noise, but I'm not running any graphics-intensive apps yet, other than Aero itself.
thanks for the reminder about the restore points, I'll keep that in mind.
querry1,
I kind of like the convenience of dual-booting, since I still need XP for a few things (Vista doesn't support my Canon G3 digital camera). Using my Acronis True Image I could restore XP as needed, but dual-booting is a lot quicker! I'll be triple-booting as soon as I re-install my Ubuntu Linux (which, amazingly enough, does support the Canon G3).
restore points and symantec system restore are two differant things. justanotherdayinparadise said he set it up in dual boot so I just gave him a heads up. I also like vista but dell is slow or will not do all the vista drivers for the I6000D. Qickset is the on that I want but I can live without it.
Well you might want pick up a copy of Adobe Elements...it supports a lot cameras. Vista would not employ my intel 630 cam . Vista would recognize it and install it but I could not open it.. Elements picked it right up...
Total Yuk !! Why on earth dual boot. We have Windows Xp on our hard drive allready in quick restore. If you need to go back to XP just fix the disabled Dell Symantic Quick Restore via the Goodell Quick Restore fix..here is the link....
I registered for the upgrade around the 1st week of December, the disks arrived today.
I split my C drive into 2 partitions, one for XP, one for Vista. Booted to the Vista DVD, performed the famous 5 step install process for a clean Vista installation into the new partition. Smooth as silk, pc now dual-boots to Vista or XP. After activation I backed up the installation with Acronis True Image.
Downloaded the latest chipset and audio drivers from Dell, got Java and Flash from their respective websites, all is working well so far. I'll peruse the Dell driver disk for additional stuff as needed.
I know others have not been so lucky, I consider myself fortunate:smileyhappy:
Please bear with me but I have what is probably an incredibly stupid question. In all the years that I've had a PC I've never partitioned a hard drive. I have run a dual boot configuration off of two seperate drives but have never partitioned a drive for that purpose.
Now the stupid question part: When you partition a hard drive where an operationg system already resides, does it automatically move it to the new partition and it continues to work just as it always has? Or does it wipe out that OS and you have to reinstall it? I'm thinking of just doing the second drive dual boot route but the partition option intrigues me.
I want to install Vista, but one of the main things I do is Second Life and so far they are saying that they don't support Vista. So I'd like to be able to switch back and forth until they are ready.
Holy ! I think I left out a fairly important question regarding my partition vs. second hard drive question. Although I haven't looked at it too much yet, wouldn't that be an "Upgrade" version of the OS as opposed to a "Full" version? Would I have to install XP on the new partition or drive before "upgrading" to Vista?
Sorry if these are stupid questions, I just want it to work. :smileyhappy:
My experience is limited. When I decide on partitions i use a program like Partition Magic or Acronis True Image. I recommend the latter as the program has many other features. You don't need this however. The operating system will install on empty parts of the hard drive and leave partition there alone unless you delete them.
None of the modern operating systems are going to delete or wipe out anything unless you delete.If you run a program like Dell Quick Restore , it will wipe out everything on the hard drive and restore only itself. Most Dell computers all start with only this program loaded. If you run Partition Magic or Acronis True image and partition a section of the hard drive, the information on the partition will be wiped out. But its you that decide to wipe and not the program.
I'm not an expert, but here's my step-by-step (and if anyone wiser than I sees a problem with this process please feel free to point it out!!):
1. XP Pro installed on hard drive C:.
2. Using Acronis Disk Director I first resized the existing partition (the whole disk) into a smaller partition. This left a big chunk of un-allocated space on the hard drive and did not damage my existing XP installation. Disk Director was easy to use, with good "wizards" to walk you through the process.
3. Using ADD again I created a second partition using all of the un-allocated space and formatted it with the NTFS file system. This partition is for Vista.
4. I then booted the computer to the Vista upgrade DVD and installed Vista into this new partiton using what I referred to as "the famous 5 step install process for a clean Vista installation". Here's a link:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_upgrade_clean.asp
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I'm using the NVIDIA driver that Vista downloaded automatically during Windows Update after installing Vista. I haven't noticed an increase in fan noise, but I'm not running any graphics-intensive apps yet, other than Aero itself.
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