So welcome back, this is 2 hours 11 minutes into day 3 of the Vista challenge:
Why am I on here so early in the morning? I’ll tell you why!
Vista cannot cope with my Lite-On DVD/CD RW +/- Geewhizbangomgwtfbbq drive in the default BIOS configuration.
I went to copy a 4 GB file off the disc and Vista went to it at a mind numbing 1-2 MB a second, it made it to about 1.5 GB and then froze, I gave it a couple minutes to respond, before forcing the system to eject the disc, which immediately caused a Blue Screen of Death.
I poked around for an hour trying to find out why, smaller transactions wouldn’t hurt anything other than being slow, but this was unacceptable, finally I found out that disabling S.M.A.R.T. in the BIOS setup fixes this, and I know it wasn’t just my system, because I got the advice from a guy on IRC, anyway, my transfers are up to 5 MB/sec now and no crashes.
Mister Vista sums my experience up:
Other than this, not really much else going on at the moment, except for Halo: Combat Evolved needs to be set to elevate or else connecting to multiplayer doesn’t work at all, so if there’s a security vulnerability in Halo, Vista will be running it as Administrator.
Don’t you feel all warm and fuzzy? BTW, if you’re ever on Halo and “killed by Gonorrhea”, yeah, totally wasn’t me. (Gonorrhea has killed Rambo, Gonorrhea has killed ChuckNorris, Gonorrhea will kill again)
Vista works just fine!
Comment by steveballmer — August 12, 2008 @ 4:15 pm