Vista 64-bit loading now!

tcbetka wrote on 10/15/2008, 4:26 PM

Well, with some trepidation I have pushed the GO button on installing Vista Home Premium 64-bit OS on an empty hard drive on my new system. I have XP 32 as my main OS, and it works....well....like XP. But, being the adventurer and masochist that I am, I can't leave well enough alone--so here goes.

On the off-chance that this all works, I plan to install Vegas 8.1 later tonight and try to process some AVCHD files. Otherwise if it doesn't work, I will be offline for several days while I reinstall all the stuff that gets hosed in the attempt...

Here goes nothing.

TB

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FilmingPhotoGuy wrote on 10/20/2008, 11:15 AM

Hang on! On any newish board you can push F12 at POST and a menu pops up for you to select which drive you want to boot from.

I am dual booting between 32bit and 64bit. In either OS's the other drive is still available to do whatever. You don't need a boot manager. I had a problem when XP64 was first released most of my software didn't work. As the software venders started releasing 64bit updates I installed them and here I am today wondering about VISTA, is it really worth it?

But checkout F12

tcbetka wrote on 10/20/2008, 11:23 AM

I'll try this... I enter the BIOS at boot by hitting the DEL key, then just scroll down to the "Advanced BIOS Functions" tab, and then select the desired hard drive. Are you saying there is a way to do it without actually entering the BIOS? That'd be cool. I'll try it later tonight after I get home from the volleyball game.

I love taping these things, but MAN it's getting tiring! I think my daughter's team has played like 8 matches this month already. After tonight's event I will have well under 100GB empty space remaining on my 500GB media hard drive, and it's all volleyball from the past 2 months! I shudder to think where I'd keep all the miniDV tapes, if was using that media source. Of course if the HD goes kaput, I am in deep do-do when it comes to making a "best of" DVD--so I can definitely see the argument for using tape.

TB

lefty51 wrote on 10/20/2008, 2:04 PM

I know this is repetitive but when you install v64 after xp64 it will give you a boot choice everytime you fire up the pc. if you don't select one it auto defaults to vista after 25- 30 sec. As far as the video, it sounds like you're using an HD drive camera too. once I have them on the computer I burn them to DVD. The thing I like about Vegas is I can import the video from a dvd, so if disaster strikes I have an out. HMMM, now that I think about it that's what I do with stuff i burnt to dvd with dvd arch, but now i am burning them to dvd with the software that came with the sony camcorder. the coach likes it because it's broken down into chapters instead of one long video clip. I should probably see if vegas will let me import those from DVD. otherwise .... I don't even want to think about it !!!

FilmingPhotoGuy wrote on 10/21/2008, 1:15 PM

You don't need to go into the BIOS which is the long way round. Push F12 when you hear the beep :)

tcbetka wrote on 10/21/2008, 4:25 PM

Awesome! Thanks for the tip...

Normally, I would have simply installed the GRUB loader and a version of Linux--since I have it on every other machine I own pretty much. But that silly nVidia graphics issue seems to continue to haunt desktop installs if you have a GeForce video card. And since I don't really plan to use Linux on this machine, I just resigned myself to using the BIOS method. But this F12 thing works much better!

You learn something new everyday it seems--but this is the first mobo that I have ever had that provides this feature, as far as I know.

TB