My experience of WinXP has not been that brilliant!
Before I continue, could I make a suggestion to all the people out there that do not really know much about the NT kernal yet. PLEASE CHECK YOUR EVENT LOGS!!! Things may look good, but event logs are the only way often to know about problems or their cause. To do this, go to the Administration menu, or bring up the RUN window, and run eventvwr. Check both the Application and System logs especially!
Build 2463 (which is not the general Beta 2 release) caused endless problems. It crashed on install, and once I got it up and running, it refused to allow me to install any devices, and also my USB ports worked very very strangely. I had to disconnect my USB devices and plub them back in to get power to them! (sometimes my Win2K does this, but generally when the processor overheats when I overclock it too much).
Build 2462 (the REAL beta 2) was much more reliable. Only 2 big complaints:
If you look in the event logs, there are some rather wierd ACPI errors (which can be serious), however I cannot see ACPI needing to look in the address range that is being referred to. Sounds like either a BIOS update is needed or MS screwed up - personally I think it is MS! My other problem is that my beloved Videologic SonicFury refuses to work under XP (regardless of build). Seems like a driver update is required.
I have asked some other people online and they get similar problems, but it would be worth asking people to look at XP more closely and see what problems are occuring with the actual OS rather than just doing benchmarking which is really only giving you a speed test rather than a complete reliability picture.
Anyhow shed any light on this?
Before I continue, could I make a suggestion to all the people out there that do not really know much about the NT kernal yet. PLEASE CHECK YOUR EVENT LOGS!!! Things may look good, but event logs are the only way often to know about problems or their cause. To do this, go to the Administration menu, or bring up the RUN window, and run eventvwr. Check both the Application and System logs especially!
Build 2463 (which is not the general Beta 2 release) caused endless problems. It crashed on install, and once I got it up and running, it refused to allow me to install any devices, and also my USB ports worked very very strangely. I had to disconnect my USB devices and plub them back in to get power to them! (sometimes my Win2K does this, but generally when the processor overheats when I overclock it too much).
Build 2462 (the REAL beta 2) was much more reliable. Only 2 big complaints:
If you look in the event logs, there are some rather wierd ACPI errors (which can be serious), however I cannot see ACPI needing to look in the address range that is being referred to. Sounds like either a BIOS update is needed or MS screwed up - personally I think it is MS! My other problem is that my beloved Videologic SonicFury refuses to work under XP (regardless of build). Seems like a driver update is required.
I have asked some other people online and they get similar problems, but it would be worth asking people to look at XP more closely and see what problems are occuring with the actual OS rather than just doing benchmarking which is really only giving you a speed test rather than a complete reliability picture.
Anyhow shed any light on this?
