); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY I don't remember the particulars, but not too long ago I read that someone figured out how to load unsigned drivers on Vista. You'll have to Google for it, as I don't remember where the details were posted. It is technically an unauthorized "hack", but it's your PC, so you can do what you think best.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Didier Juges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:05 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] M$-Vi$ta-compliant PC RTC clock card? > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Maynard >> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:03 PM >> To: time-nuts@febo.com >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [time-nuts] M$-Vi$ta-compliant PC RTC clock card? >> >>... >> (I know that some on this list will say, "You nitwit, you >> should be another OS than M$ Vista." Such replies will not be >> helpful to me.) >> >> James Maynard, K7KK >> Salem, Oregon, USA > > It is not unusual, with Windows or any other OS, that new versions do not > support ALL the old hardware right out of the chute. If you do not get an > immediate solution to your problem from somebody who has already solved > this > problem for you, you may have to either 1) become an MS Vista expert > yourself, find or develop a fix for the problem then write about it for > the > masses or if you do not have and do not wish to develop the expertise > yourself, 2) fold back to something you know works until someone else > develops a solution, which may require you to buy new hardware. > > It is also possible that some older software or hardware will NEVER work > with Vista because of choices Microsoft made in developing the new > platform. > An example is some video/TV tuner cards such as the popular Wonder series > by > ATI. These will never be supported under Vista simply because the new > driver > model precludes supporting the different features of the card like the XP > driver model did. The cards can be made to work under Vista, but some > features that ATI consider essential to the product line are not supported > (such as running the driver as a service), therefore they will stop making > those cards. It sounds crazy that cards that were still being made when > Vista came out would not be supported, but such is life in the techno > world. > > Personally, I am in no hurry to switch to Vista. After being squarely in > the > M$ bashing camp for a while (I still run Linux on a number of machines, at > home and at work), I am quite satisfied with XP as a desktop > (restrictively) > as long as I have a Linux box or two within telnet/ssh distance to do the > heavy lifting :-) > > Didier KO4BB > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.