I bought Vista today

[tomster2300]

So on a whim I went out and bought an upgradeable version of Vista Home Premium for $89.99 today from the campus bookstore. I've been playing with it all afternoon and so far am really enjoying it. Windows and the interface run well and look extremely slick, and the only problem I'm having so far is not being able to find a driver for my old motherboard. They stopped the Vista support at the nforce 3 range - unfortunately my board is an nforce 2 and lacks the nforce driver support. It doesn't seem to be making a difference though - should I be worried? My lcd lacked driver support as well, but the xp driver installed successfully so hopefully it's fine.

I haven't found any real reason to dislike Vista yet. There seems to be a very, very slight delay when typing and internet explorer is a tad jumpy when I scroll (despite having installed the newest video drivers). Could this be due to a lack of nforce drivers?

My surround sound is working very well now (and without any trouble after I disabled some options). Everything kind of just worked after I installed one driver and disabled the initial option Windows picked for me. It's the first time in a number of months that my speakers have worked properly in full surround sound.

Just thought I'd report since I haven't been on the boards in awhile.

[YukonMaster]

I have Vista Ultimate and I am not disappointed at all, has very few bugs compared to XP release and I don't notice the bugs anyway.

YukonMaster

[tomster2300]

Is it ok that I currently don't have a nforce driver for my motherboard? They don't have Vista ones for my mobo...

[MaxRat]

use the XP one...It should work just fine..

[tomster2300]

Alright, well I tried it and am having a problem. After it installs everything works great...until I reboot the computer. After a reboot the NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller has an exclamation mark in the device manager and the internet refuses to work. Before the reboot the Controller isn't disabled, but it isn't enabled either in the device manager.

Since installing the nforce drivers NVIDIA NVMixer has quit working as well - when I click it a message box appears saying

"the application cannot start because it culd not detect NVIDIA nForce hardware on your system. If this is an nForce system, check the Windows Device Manager to ensure the NVIDIA nForce Audio Codec Interface component is not disabled or conflicting with another component. This program will now shutdown."

Is there anything I can do to keep this from happening?

[glc]

Before you installed those XP platform drivers, did you look to see if maybe Vista had native support?

Sounds like it's time for a system restore or a fresh start.

Note that Nvidia's video card drivers for Vista don't work properly yet.