Installing Vista on p105-S921

I'd like to install Vista on my p105-s921..has 2 gigs memory, I ran the pre-install check and although it 'passed' there were qualifiers..
-DVD-RAM has to be uninstalled and reinstalled, can't find an exact match for that to download
-It says the HD (High Definition) 'does not work with ..Vista, you may lose audio capability..'
-does not like the UPEK TouchChip fingerprint coprocessor and Protector Suite, says it 'may not work'.
-Bluetooth may not work
-Says the Intel PROSet Wireless may not work..I looked at the Intel site and for this version (ProWireless 3945ABG) the Vista driver is 'not yet available'.

So those are the highlights, has anyone tried Vista and what was your experience with the above?

Thx

 

well if those problems dont bother u feel free to install it!

i think that with all those errors i'll wait for the final...or a more error free version.

i know someone who installed vista...beautiful desktop...but too many bugs.

 

LOL..that *is* the final release, the RTM..yeah, I've not yet decided it's worth the trouble. But since many of the warnings are "may affect", wanted to know of others had any issues. Can't necessarily call those bugs, hard to know who's at fault as sometimes the vendor (maker of the device) will not spend $ to re-write the driver for Vista. They'd much perfer you just buy a new device!

 

Thought I'd follow up on this. After backing up the xp system using Acronis, I installed an upgrade to Vista (final release). I uninstalled my symantec stuff, the dvd-ram, bluetooth.

Install took about 1 hour, went fairly smoothly. Turns out the sound works ok (whether it's optimal is another thing, but sounds ok). At first I thought the wireless was not functional, but turned out it works fine, just the easyconfig stuff won't work. But the Vista tools for connection worked fine, I took it to a few coffee shops and it detected and connected fine.

Probably the biggest thing is the video. Vista was able to install a generic driver that gives me 1024X768 High color, which gets me by. But the display is not optimal for the video card. I looked at nVidia's site, a discussion in there with an nVidia tech indicates they have some drivers written, and will be releasing some in the near future. Some customers were somewhat upset but the guy pointed out that the consumer version of Vista won't be out until january 31st, so their plan is to have more released in the January-February timeframe.

The biggest problem I ran into was running the install from the dvd. Seems there's a bug there, you can get an error that stops the install at the beginning. A little googling found that if you mount the iso image using something like Daemon Tools and run it from that it works fine. Be warned, however don't install the Daemon Tools search toolbar. It's got malware, and even after I uninstalled the toolbar, it keeps popping up a page in IE 7. I downloaded, installed and ran a copy of AVG for Vista and it identified it as malware.

So far it's been stable, some apps run, some don't (like Warcraft). It's going to be a while for the apps and drivers to catch up. See this link for compatible apps:

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=801350&SiteID=17

 

Sweet bru. One thing id like to know is the battery life on vista compared to win xp. Any noticeble difference? Higher or lower . thx

 

There is a driver available at www.laptopvideo2go.com
Here's the link to the thread:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12039&st=0

You need to download the driver first, then uncompress it and overwrite the .inf file with the one available to download there.
After that, just run setup.exe and voilá, nvidia drivers