Vista SP1: The fastest way to screw up your computer

I installed SP1's RC1 yesterday night (it took a (long time)^99 to install). I was a bit disappointed to not find any major and noticeable improvements to the OS and turned off my FULLY FUNCTIONAL COMPUTER. When I turned it on today, it was fine, but after returning from stand-by, it notified me that "The currently selected graphics display driver can not be used. IT was written for a previous version of windows, and is no longer compatible with this version of windows. The system had been started using the default VGA driver." My driver was the latest from laptopvideo2go (ForceWare X 167.43) and it's not compatible???? It even continued to do the same when I reverted back to Dell's default driver!!! Another thing, upgrading to SP1 seems to have partially invalidated my activation! On the screen, it put a watermark that says "Evaluation copy. Build 6001", but under properties for computer, it reports "Windows is activated. Production: XXXXXXX (my oem serial). Just when I had vista working as it wanted it to, this happens!! Well luckily, I UPGRADED my computer by dual-booting with XP - the GREATEST of windows EVER.

EDIT: please kindly ignore the validation part since, apparently, it's normal. Also, I should mention that I'm using Vista Ultimate x64.

 

Well the evaluation means that SP1 is still in evaluating stage and is not complete, hence the evaluationg mark you see. You have a fully validated vista so don't worry, this was explained in the SP1 thoughts thread.

 

Btw, the "Evaluation Copy. 6001" watermark is on everyone's machine that downloaded sp1RC. Your machine is not partially invalidated so chill out.

I feel you though. I remember downloading sp1 for XP a few years back and it completely disabled my system.

Luckily for me this time, I picked the right time(yesterday) to do a fresh-install on my Vaio so I can go ahead and download sp1RC without having any worries.

Hope all goes well.

 

The watermark is supposed to be there, because the SP1 RC1 expires in July 2008! So your activation is not invalidated

 

so your complaining that you graphics screwed up because you used a hacked driver that is not 100% compatible?

 

please do read my entire post

 

that's not necessarily gonna fix the issue, more than likely there are remnants of the old driver. You need to get Driver Cleaner , boot into safe mode, remove, and reinstall

 

Yeah your problems have nothing to do with vista rc1. Its most likely dicecca said you need to remove remnants from your old driver. Also 167.43 are not the newest drivers. 169.21/.25 are.

 

Thank you for saying that 169.25 was the latest. I was about to. On a side note has anyone noticed how fast Nvidia is pumping out these drivers?

 

As fast as the release of a new game sporting the nVidia logo on the retail box.

 

I've rolled out SP1 RC on 4 laptops and 4 computers so far, no issues yet. Resume from sleep is much better now and so is login time on a domain.

I for one, am happy with it so far.

 

I'm just going to wait for the complete SP1 to be rolled out before I install. Lol.

 

I like the sound of that

 

Im in the same club.

 

me 2...i've already dealt with enough of vista's crap...I'm not going to deal with anymore until the resolve it

 

I was tempted to try RC1, but I too will wait till when microsoft releases the final for SP1.

 

Well, just as I was starting to get excited about the performance boost and all, just noticed that after installing RC SP1 my dvd drive dissapeared It`s on the device manager,just not in My Computer...motherf..

 

No problems here...I don't think Vista is the fastest way to screw up your computer...there are many more effective and exciting ways to do that.