Windows Vista?
 

Getting it right now, not sure how to install it or whatever though, ill figure it out, if anyone wants the links let me know'

Aw hell, installed it, works fine except the resolution and color is off like a mother fucker, im suppose to be at atleast 1024 x 768 and 16bit or 32bit, but its currently showing in 640 x 480 and 16 bit, but im not blind i dont need the shit so big so i right clicked, went to personalization and tryed changing the settings but the 1024 x 768 is only 8bit, so there is no color, but before i installed Vista i was at 1024 x 768 and 16 bit or 32bit (dont remember exactly, whatever its suppose to be it was) and i cant get it to fix, i have an lcd flat screen monitor, nothing old fashion but i just cant figure out how to get it right, any ideas?

maybe vista just sucks
no seriously

I think you need to install the drivers for your graphics card.

If you don't have a graphics card, you need to install the drivers for your motherboard so it can use its onboard graphics shit.

yea, what terumuto said

yes....i bet downloading the drivers for your specific graphics card will fix the problem.....

Thats the problem, have no idea what i have, and my sound is off aswell, same thing with the drivers, and all it says for my graphics card is that its like a Standard Vga Controller

try doing a windows update...that may help....and where did you get vista from?

Pretty much im fucked', i was reading all over lastnight seeing if anyone else had the problem, a bunch do, says i have to get a suped up graphics card, lol, and i got it for free, no evaluation or anything just cant support the graphics and sound i guess.. Now i got to look for a version of Windows Xp, i found one last night but opened up "setup.exe" and install wasnt highlighted and wouldnt let me click it, so i dont know if that paticular Xp download was faulty or if Vista wont let me install older visions, so i dont know, shouldve just left my computer alone :huh:

Oh and im trying to do the Windows Update now, says it found 5 things so hopefully it fixes it :D

http://img1.imagetitan.com/img1/1/48/damnvista.jpg

^- Theres an Ss of how big everything is :(

Well, i managed to get partial sound, i threw on Raekwon and Busta - State of Grace and Busta came out sounding like alvin the chipmunk, guess i installed the wrong sound drivers lol

I heard Windows Vista is piece of shit. I'll just stick with XP for now.

vista does require i good graphics card...iono....ima try and get it and see whats up....my graphics card cost me about 160..maybe i'll have some luck i'll check back with ya

^- Okk, lemme know', damn it was easier to find a copy of Vista than Xp :banghead:

Heres what you need to do...

Go to the start menu and click on "run" and type dxdiag in there.

Once you're in dxdiag, go to display and it will tell you the name of your graphics chipset. Go to sound and it will tell you the name of your audio chipset. Then go on google and put the exact name of what you have in there as well as the word drivers, and look for the right drivers for them (seperately, not at the same time).

I could probably give you a quick answer as to whether doing that will help or not if you tell me the name of your graphics shit and how much memory it has. If its too shit for vista, you're going to need to reformat to install windows xp..

Just put in the windows xp cd, turn off the computer, then reboot with the cd in there.

Eh, i have to buy a new computer, me not knowing shit about what im doing, i mixed "Old windows folder" with new windows folder, everything is ending in corruption or error now, and my computer came with xp installed so i dont even have the disk, but lets say i did, if i put it in when im bootin' it will install windows and everything be fixed?

Yes, everything will be fixed... You'll lose any files you had though, unless you back them up somehow. All you need to do is reformat the hard drive, which wipes everything off it and gives windows xp a clean slate to start off of. It asks you to do that during the windows xp install, it's not hard at all.

You could buy a new computer for vista, if you want to. I don't know what Vista could offer you that xp couldn't, though, other than looking pretty.

you could always download cp if you dont have it, lucky for me, my mom works with chicago public schools, and dell have these little green cds with a reinstallation of windows xp sp2 and if you boot from it and partition you dont need a product keu, and its genuine, and all my computers are delll, so anytime i fuck up i dont fret ii jus repartition my shit, and i have a external hard drive so i dont worry about my files

This is what happens when you get the bootlegged version.

Rofl, dont make fun of me bitch all my shits bootleg! :laugh:

I break computers alot, my laptop burnout and nearly burned our house down, i knocked the tower to one of the compaqs on the floor and broke it, than dropped lemonaid on it, and now this one, haha.

But, i found 2 discs, both came in the packaging with my laptop (broken one), there both black and white, and one says "Operating System CD Microsot Windows Xp Home Edition Service Pack 2" and the other says "Application And Driver Recovery Dvd", think either one of those will fix it?

Damn, the Os disk is proper but "Install" isnt lit up, thats because Vista wont install old Os's? Damn

How are you trying to install it?

If the cd is in there when you start up the comp, you shouls be able to go into the options thing... On my comps it usually says something during the boot like "push f10 to open configuration menu" or something like that. Then in there there should be an option to do with booting, and you need to change the boot drive from whatever it is to the cd drive the install cd is in... That, or there may be a boot from CD option.

^- Yeah, na i tried installing it while on windows lol, i restarted it with the disk and and its all proper, got XP back but my old product key is invalid because it was already used, so in the area im fucked, and i called microsoft and the people said the Os disk was only the basic of basic files and that my comp will crash soon if i dont buy another XP, so i dont know, ima rock it out till it breaks than ima do it all over.. lol

Alright well thanks for all the help :)