My Vista 64 bit OS has been acting a little flaky for a long time. The latest symptom was my DHCP client not working. When Dell did the free motherboard swap upgrade, I was supposed to re-install the OS then. But I procrastinated and just waited till the pain got bad. My XPS 700720 came [...]
Vista upgrade
Stupid Vista Tricks
I attempted to update the drivers for my XPS 700 using the Nvidia nforce web site drivers. After a few reboots, the BAD thing happened. I lost all the data on my workstation and I am not able to re-install Vista. Ubuntu works well off the Live CD but that’s about it. I’m using vLite [...]
No need for Vista upgrade
I have been kicking around the Vista upgrade to Home Premium and it reminds me of the PS3; for now get an Xbox 360 instead.
Vista is like that. If it comes with your new PC great. But there is no need to upgrade.
Overall I like it, but I also like working with broken things…
