[cosmicklev]

@sawo wrote:

It depends on the hardware for example it didnt had drivers for my 2900pro ati video card and my asus p5k-se motherboard, not to mention that the drivers included in the windows itself are probably buggy and outdated.

Yeah…I’ve learned about/been burned by the sub-optimal performance of MS generic drivers in the past. Anyhow, I’ve installed all the latest vendor Vista 64 bit drivers from Dell’s website (Chipset, NIC, Audio, SAS Controller, etc) and the problem remains the same. I’ve even binned the Aero UI in favour of windows classic which I would be happy to live with in the hope that it was maybe an Aero UI issue, but sadly not to be.

Annoyingly it’s hard to diagnose, I can’t even use task manager to take a cursory look to see if any particular process is hogging CPU because the UI is so choppy and task manager doesn’t get any refreshes.

Grrrr.

[cosmicklev]

@sawo wrote:

If your not using the Vista x64 drivers then which ones did you installed? Do you have x64 Server 2008 drivers for everything?

Windows 2008 x64 had drivers for everything straight out the box.

[cosmicklev]

@sawo wrote:

This looks like driver problem to me.Do you have the drivers for everything fully installed?
About your second question – lets just say that its safe enough 🙂

Thanks for the reply. All the drivers installed correctly, but I’ll give the Vista 64 bit drivers a go.

Cheers
Kev

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