Vista beta 2 up and running on the TC1100
This afternoon – whilst on conference calls – I cloned my old 40GB disk onto a new 100GB one and installed Vista beta 2 on my TC1100. The experience seems significantly improved compared to my previous attempts. I had to install the XP versions of button driver and Q menu to get anything like a decent experience. In my first hour of playing around I have noticed the following issues:
- The keyboard, journal and orientation buttons are not working. However I can change orientation from the Q menu so that’s no big deal
- I don’t appear to have any bluetooth support, I have tried installing the XP drivers
- Searching and folder view changes still take a while, hopefully that gets better as the indexes build
I haven’t installed much software so far, but its been a good experience:
- Maxthon
- Lotus Notes 6.5.2 (integrated login doesn’t seem to work)
- Foxit Acrobat Reader
- Synergy (doesn’t work when the user account protection dialog opens up, but works fine after you clock allow)
- OneNote 2007
- Office 2007
- Roboform
- VistabootPro
- FeedDemon 2
- eWallet
- Kcorp pre-n wireless network card drivers
The nVidia drivers and network card drivers were updated using windows update
Hi, I’m using a HP TC1100 too, and got Vista installed. I’m just wondering how you managed to get your Wireless LAN working… The driver just won’t install on mine, timing out each time.
Actually I don’t remember installing a driver. Although I don’t use the built in wireless. I did install a driver for my PC Card wireless that I use, that seemed to hang, but after a reboot it worked fine so it must have hung at some point after the install.
Hi was the wireless card a KCorp card by any chance?
I tried to install it on mine but it had no result.
Hi, yes it was kCorp. In the end I got it working by skipping the installation programme and running the driver install directly, I don’t remember whether I needed to run it with compatibility set to XPSp2.
You need to install the windows vista driver made by intel directly. I have the 2100 card. Here is a link to the download page on intel’s site. If the link doesn’t work, go to intel’s site and search for the 2100 card driver for windows vista.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/11918/eng/Intel(R)PROWireless21_125836.zip&agr=N&ProductID=944&DwnldId=11918&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems&lang=eng