jay

Hi
Can anyone help? Just bought a new acer laptop to use with my projector...it
picked it up the first day but it just goes blank after start-up...what do i
do

"Art" wrote:

> I'm running Home Premium on 3 machines with experience indexes of 2.0 (due
> to integrated video), one of them a 18 month old Gateway laptop with an
> integrated 200M chipset for graphics. It runs fine. It runs faster on the
> laptop than Windows XP MCE 2005 did. All 3 machines run Media Center. One
> of them acts as a PVR and streams video wirelessly. After taking all 5 home
> machines to Home Premium I can say this:
>
> Vista has been a good experience for me.
> I planned each installation or upgrade.
> I'm running 3 machines with 1 GB RAM and integrated video and it runs fine
> (the only performance issue I've had is with Media Center on one older
> machine but a little tweaking cleared that up).
>
> I'm sorry your friend had so much trouble but Vista will indeed run well
> with lower experience scores. Why it didn't for your friend I can't say.
> BTW, DRM is not unique to Vista. I have 2 iPods and all the iTunes songs
> come with DRM. Apple's actual recommendation is to burn them to CD for
> backup (backing up to a network share, not so good). I think that's pretty
> funny. I don't know what the answer is there, but I agree with you. It's
> too hard to buy and maintain digital content.
>
> Art
>
>
> "Amazing Iceman" <NOSPAM@HERE.COM> wrote in message
> news:1Kidnbcd24dayo_bnZ2dnUVZ_qOpnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> > I've been waiting a long time to install Vista. Now that I've been so
> > close
> > to buy it and install it, I've been discovering all kinds of oddities. I
> > have also been looking for a new laptop, but unless it's the very
> > high-tech
> > laptops, a lot of new models come with downgraded video-cards.
> > It actually feels like going back to the Stone Age of computing. Please
> > tell
> > me I'm wrong. Here are just a few points:
> >
> > - Most new notebooks come now with video cards with UMA ( Shared Video
> > Memory ). Just like way back in the DOS days, the computer's RAM is shared
> > with the video card. I was reading a disclaimer on the HP website that
> > said
> > not to allocate too much memory for video and to keep the resolution low;
> > otherwise performance loss would occur.
> > I saw a really nice HP notebook at SAM's club, with a very high Windows
> > Experience score on all their functions, except for video ( with UMA, of
> > course), which dropped the final score to 3.1 (it also said that it
> > would't
> > give a good enough experience for Aero. And this is a NEW model
> > notebook!!!
> >
> > - Also, a few years ago, Winmodems were considered a bad choice.
> > Now suddenly, Winmodems are back. Even audio cards are now more
> > software-oriented
> > than they used to be. I remember spending a ton of money on my Sound
> > Blaster Platinum
> > just because of its great hardware implentation.
> >
>
> <snip>
>

davidruddle

Did you ever get this problem resolved as I am suffering from the same difficulty although I'm still using XP