Jason Dunn
01-23-2007, 06:00 PM
Since I got my Shuttle back yesterday (http://www.jasondunn.com/today-is-hardware-day-162), I installed Vista Ultimate on it last night. The install went smoothly, and everything was identified except for the on-board audio (a Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! chip). Creative has released beta drivers (http://ask.americas.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=ww_english_add,U={B8F60310-DA4F-11D3-94F4-00500463020E},Company={CEAE216D-8719-4C00-AC9F-03BC258F7B70},d=1130251443648,VARSET=ws:http://us.creative.com,case=14186), but I'm very leery of putting any beta drivers on this system for fear of destabilizing it right out of the gate. I might go without sound for another week - I'm really hoping that Creative will released finalized drivers on the 30th when Vista officially launches. Given the popularity of Creative Soundblaster Live products, I'm quite surprised that Vista didn't have a driver included.
I also noticed a Vista-specific glitch today: while Vista was able to correctly acknowledge my 3.2 Ghz to 3.36 Ghz Celeron D overclock (http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/index.php?topic_id=11607), when I overclocked the 2.13 Ghz Pentuim M CPU on the Shuttle SD11G5 to 2.24 Ghz Vista is reading it as 1.6 Ghz. I know that the overclock was successful, because my Vista processor performance rating went from a 3.9 up to a 4.1. So why can't Vista measure the CPU speed properly?
I'm still waiting for a replacement XFX GeForce 7600GS to be sent my way, so at the moment the Shuttle is running off the on-board video (a craptastic Intel 915GM GPU) and I can't connect my dual monitors to it. I'm hoping by the end of this week the replacement video card will show up and I'll have the pieces I need to get this system back together properly (both from a hardware and driver point of view).
I also noticed a Vista-specific glitch today: while Vista was able to correctly acknowledge my 3.2 Ghz to 3.36 Ghz Celeron D overclock (http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/index.php?topic_id=11607), when I overclocked the 2.13 Ghz Pentuim M CPU on the Shuttle SD11G5 to 2.24 Ghz Vista is reading it as 1.6 Ghz. I know that the overclock was successful, because my Vista processor performance rating went from a 3.9 up to a 4.1. So why can't Vista measure the CPU speed properly?
I'm still waiting for a replacement XFX GeForce 7600GS to be sent my way, so at the moment the Shuttle is running off the on-board video (a craptastic Intel 915GM GPU) and I can't connect my dual monitors to it. I'm hoping by the end of this week the replacement video card will show up and I'll have the pieces I need to get this system back together properly (both from a hardware and driver point of view).