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Doing the Impossible with Vista

Author: Rob Miles| Date: 21 March 2008| Tags:  vista
Doing the Impossible with Vista

It was the media PC I built a while back and use it for watching the odd telly program.

The upgrade took ages.

There was much hard disk rattling and everything moved as if in treacle.

I wasn't very impressed to be honest, in fact after the upgrade everything seemed to have slowed right down, even simple things like opening up the browser took over a minute. Very poor.

Then one program claimed that there was not enough memory for it to run, which was a strange thing for it to say on a one gig machine with nothing else loaded.

Except that it wasn't a one gig machine any more. The ram had come loose and I had Vista Ultimate running on a box with 256M of RAM.

I suppose I should have spotted this earlier, but I'm very impressed that it did anything at all. I opened up the box and re-seated the chips and it seems a lot better now....

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