After installing my brand spanking new copy of Win7 on my new rig, I decided it was high time to fix up the old one, which meant a Vista reinstall. So I do it, then let windows update automatically fetch 99 (!) updates for me. It takes like 4 and a half friggin' hours to download and install the more than half-gigabyte of patches Vista thinks it needs.
Of course, once it's done, the OS locks itself into an endless bluescreen/reboot loop. I can't even get it to start in safe mode... What a monumental waste of time today has been!
After this happened, I remember I went through the exact same thing the last time I installed Vista, and at least that time it was the Nforce driver set that was the cause.
If this is still the case - and there's indeed an Nforce 5xx driver update amongst those selected for me, despite it's the 680i chipset in my old rig - I'm really surprised MS is still sending out motherboard drivers that completely wrecks the entire OS install. Then again, the rule of thumb seems to be to never ever install any driver delivered by windows update for hardware that's more complicated than say, a monitor or joystick...
So now I've reinstalled Vista AGAIN, turned OFF automatic updates, and downloaded the appropriate mobo driver package straight from Nvidia. Now I'll see if that fixes things. Of course I will double-check to see it's not still attempting to install the wrong mobo drivers for my system. Meh!
Of course, once it's done, the OS locks itself into an endless bluescreen/reboot loop. I can't even get it to start in safe mode... What a monumental waste of time today has been!
After this happened, I remember I went through the exact same thing the last time I installed Vista, and at least that time it was the Nforce driver set that was the cause.
If this is still the case - and there's indeed an Nforce 5xx driver update amongst those selected for me, despite it's the 680i chipset in my old rig - I'm really surprised MS is still sending out motherboard drivers that completely wrecks the entire OS install. Then again, the rule of thumb seems to be to never ever install any driver delivered by windows update for hardware that's more complicated than say, a monitor or joystick...
So now I've reinstalled Vista AGAIN, turned OFF automatic updates, and downloaded the appropriate mobo driver package straight from Nvidia. Now I'll see if that fixes things. Of course I will double-check to see it's not still attempting to install the wrong mobo drivers for my system. Meh!
Ten years ago I would use all kinds of little smart utilities and so on, use tweakui etc to set up my OS juuuuust the way I want it... Today, I even re-buy games from steam that I already own on disc, it's costing a crapload of money but I just can't be bothered to install and keep em patched up manually.
