Adding new hardware -nice!

I just added a bunch of new hardware to my one year old E-Machines box
running Vista Home Basic (3ghz Pentium 4).
Got to say that all installed very nicely and without a single glitch. When
I think about how much time I spent with Win98, trying to figure whether an
install issue was in the BIOS or a driver - this was fantastic.

What got me started today was a friend asking if I had ability to move files
from a floppy to CD. The new machine had a floppy controller but no drive
(The floppy bay was actually used to hold a variety of memory stick/card
adaptors). Took the floppy drive and cable from the old machine and plugged
in. No place to mount it but I do this so rarely, just left it loose on the
chassis floor. Power up and voila, no need to fuss with the bios and a found
hardware box opened and completed without intervention.

Feeling pretty good about this, got the DVD-RW and 120G drive out of the old
box (motherboard was getting unreliable). Just connected them up (ok, did
pull the jumper on the had drive to make it a slave) and power up. Again,
got a hardware found and auto install. All newly added devices were up and
running within one minute.

Oppie

The WOW starts now! Thanks for posting your experience. Like you, most of
us run with no issues. A post earlier today made me think about the tweaking
necessary to get those oldie goldie OSes working. Now I drop in the Vista
DVD with my unattended settings on a USB stick and come back later to fully
running, fully configured OS that just works.

"Oppie" wrote:

> I just added a bunch of new hardware to my one year old E-Machines box
> running Vista Home Basic (3ghz Pentium 4).
> Got to say that all installed very nicely and without a single glitch. When
> I think about how much time I spent with Win98, trying to figure whether an
> install issue was in the BIOS or a driver - this was fantastic.
>
> What got me started today was a friend asking if I had ability to move files
> from a floppy to CD. The new machine had a floppy controller but no drive
> (The floppy bay was actually used to hold a variety of memory stick/card
> adaptors). Took the floppy drive and cable from the old machine and plugged
> in. No place to mount it but I do this so rarely, just left it loose on the
> chassis floor. Power up and voila, no need to fuss with the bios and a found
> hardware box opened and completed without intervention.
>
> Feeling pretty good about this, got the DVD-RW and 120G drive out of the old
> box (motherboard was getting unreliable). Just connected them up (ok, did
> pull the jumper on the had drive to make it a slave) and power up. Again,
> got a hardware found and auto install. All newly added devices were up and
> running within one minute.
>
> Oppie
>
>
>

Oppie wrote:
> I just added a bunch of new hardware to my one year old E-Machines box
> running Vista Home Basic (3ghz Pentium 4).
> Got to say that all installed very nicely and without a single glitch. When
> I think about how much time I spent with Win98, trying to figure whether an
> install issue was in the BIOS or a driver - this was fantastic.
>
> What got me started today was a friend asking if I had ability to move files
> from a floppy to CD. The new machine had a floppy controller but no drive
> (The floppy bay was actually used to hold a variety of memory stick/card
> adaptors). Took the floppy drive and cable from the old machine and plugged
> in. No place to mount it but I do this so rarely, just left it loose on the
> chassis floor. Power up and voila, no need to fuss with the bios and a found
> hardware box opened and completed without intervention.
>
> Feeling pretty good about this, got the DVD-RW and 120G drive out of the old
> box (motherboard was getting unreliable). Just connected them up (ok, did
> pull the jumper on the had drive to make it a slave) and power up. Again,
> got a hardware found and auto install. All newly added devices were up and
> running within one minute.
>
> Oppie
>
>


Have in mind that if you upgrade to Vista home Premium or better
and go to the bios if that emachine and up the shared graphic memory to
128 mb you will be able to have the full "GLASS AERO" effects even
though your display adaptor is an onboard type.

If you want more info about this see this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hfKoUWEdHo

and read this

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/bl...to_window.html

> Have in mind that if you upgrade to Vista home Premium or better
> and go to the bios if that emachine and up the shared graphic memory to
> 128 mb you will be able to have the full "GLASS AERO" effects even
> though your display adaptor is an onboard type.
>
> If you want more info about this see this video
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hfKoUWEdHo
>
> and read this
>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/bl...to_window.html

What that has to do with the original message I have no idea, but yeah,
I had zero worries with my hardware with Vista either.

..... good to see a positive message every so often. For the couple of
things that I've had to tweak with Vista everything else so far has been
great.