350D not recognized on Vista??

[jstuedle]

what massive programs r u running at the same time that u need 4GB of RAM?

I run a Win2000 machine with 4 gig and run out of ram from time to time. I play with panoramas done with stiched 6X6 film frames scanned at about 81 Meg each. If I convert them to jpeg (yuk) I can stich 3 frames at 8 compression in PShop. No way can I stitch even 2 Tiff files with only this much ram. Bigger files or more than 3 frames and it can't happen at all. My limitations with Win2000, I can only can use a max. of about 3 1/2 gig of of my 4 gig. of ram. But, Win2000 only resides in about 280 meg of the 3 1/2 gig. with all my drivers loaded. It's much smaller and quicker than XP (about 460meg) and even more so than Vista 32. If I upgrade to XP or replace this machine, I will most likely go to 8 gig and hope that's enough. Also, more ram usually lets programs like PShop run faster if you also load things like Lightroom, View NX or Capture NX at the same time, reducing the work your hard drive has to do to providing virtual memory.

 

[Sideburns]

Bragging no not really, just a bit of a pissing contest with Sideburns to tone down his snide LOL @ people.
The 2nd question and in fact all other questions I'm surprised to find that Sideburns hasn't answered for you on my behalf but we'll deal with that in a mo. Harddrive manufacturers put a life expectancy on particular product. So let's just say for simplicity that Seagate HD lasts 3 years, w/digital 4 years, maxtor 5 years. RAID5 in my configuration will recover from a single harddrive failure without loss if one drive fails. So the idea is that if I had 2x seagate drives they would both fail at 3 years resulting in data loss. Also a series of drives might have a run of faulty controller boards/ motors etc so you are also avoiding having problems from the same batch.



What about redundancy people? Usually there is no single app that's gonna strain the pc. I do a very small mount of video work (planning to do more) but mostly the biggest app I'll run is Photoshop & friends. Open 1 full res photo, add a few layers, make a few changes, fill up the undo buffer and it's not long before it's a Gig just for 1 photo. Add to that the hungry OS, a bunch of services, drivers and fonts and it's not long before you're up to 2 Gig. I'm surprised that gobshyte didn't explain to you that all the fonts in the fonts folder are loaded into memory at startup, so if you do some graphic design work on the PC you're probably gonna have a range of fonts all taking a pinch of memory.
4 GB is typically luxury. It drastically cuts down on the harddrive pagefile accessing. Also the CPU accesses the last free register, so if I open MS Word do something and close it, continue working in PS and then reopen word, it is still in the memory and opens instantly because the CPU leaves that area of memory alone until it needs it.
Also I make my living on this pc so a part of the thinking (you've seen with the harddrive choices) when choosing the 4 x 1GB sticks is to provide redundancy which has already paid off. 1 GB stick of RAM died on me so I had to remove 2 sticks for return because it came in packs of 2. Currently I'm running on 2GB and there is only a tiny bit of drop in performance. You wouldn't notice it unless you'd been running the 4gb for a few weeks as I was. During fault finding, running the pc on 1GB was nasty, a lot slower with lots of harddrive grinding.

By the way, the CPU rarely peaks over 50% either but it is nice to work on all day. I squeezed 9 years out of my last pc before it went toes up and since I'm making my living from this one so I think it's ok that I have a little comfort when working with it for 10ish hours everyday.

I hope that's enough on that.




Now for this little puppy...


and also the Sideburns on TPF with less than 1000 posts so I assume that you don't know much about photography then as you do know about PCs?! Strange reckoning that, isn't it? Someone who talks the most on a forum knows the most. Hehe a self made professor in the virtual world. You're also the sideburns that was posting links to another selfmade professor that blogged qoutes such as "It's time Bill Gates realised that Microsoft must bow to the Mac" or some such unsubstaciated diatribe.


Speaks volumes about your greatness!! What was I thinking when you were writing those LOLs and LMFAOs? How dare I question your teenagerish omnipotance. Can this be translated into photography? Can I say that the fella with the most expensive lens is the king photographer? Or what about a benchmark that combined the number of posts with the camera kit to produce a User that shall not be questioned?

but you said it's not called FAST RAM. Aren't you going to take this moment to correct me?!


I think trying to laugh at people with your "superior" knowledge, winning benchmark and amazing number of posts behind you is very "douchecake-ish" I might even give you a promotion to "Douchebag" for it. You have notions in your head that you know the most about something and now you're laughing at others - Douchebag!

Then there's your back tracking...
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but some are right? so it's not beyond reason to expect "things" to run on Vista right? I mean I'm personally stumped how my Adobe CS2 works on Vista64, my MS Dev studio 2005 works on Vista64, my Canon software that came with the 350d works on Vista64. I guess the people in Adobe, Canon, Microsoft and so on must have more posts than you on overclocker.net. And they really really know what they're talking about.



Are you old enough to remember? I'm playing Transport Tycoon on Vista64 - It's a DOS game Douchebag!! I bought it when I had a 486dx running Widows 3.1. DOOM will run on Vista64. What part of backward compatibility do you not get at this point? I had to patch it to get it to work but I can live with that. Ever hear about DirectX? Do you know what it does? Think about it!

Gobshyte! (FYI "Gob" is an Irish reference to mouth/ shyte would normally be spelled with an i)

BACK to the original post:
Sorry for the Hi-jack but bad manners and filthy arogance tempts me in.
I suggest you use windows update to try and fix your problem, also trawl the Microsoft Knowledge base. In most cases you can expect that you are not the first to experience this problem and there probably are fixes out there already. Good Luck!

I never said that more posts means more knowledge. But I'm telling you that I do know what I'm talking about. You came out going full throttle on your flamemobile and attacked me thinking "muahaha I will use big words to make him feel stupid". Now that its backfired you're getting defensive and annoying.
I don't recall posting any links to bill gates mac blah blah...but that's ok, cause I don't really care about Mac vs PC. I own and use both.

I have no problem with you, but it seems like you misunderstood me completely. Calling me "teenagerish" and pulling out names for me at the same time is quite ironic, is it not, "sir". How does it feel to be old?
Ohhhh. Bet you don't care. Just like I don't. I'm 18. Congratulations...you've hurt my feelings by telling me I'm in the prime of my life, and still have many years left to enjoy.


On to the topic at hand...

Vista is a great operating system. XP is a great operating system. OS X is a great operating system.

It all depends on what you want. Not everything will work on Vista. That's just how technology progresses. Yes, there will be patches and emulators...but whether you want to figure that out is up to you. Now that Vista has been released for a while, any new software you purchase should work fine with it...but older software might have trouble once in a while...especially if it includes drivers for a device, as the drivers are different.

It's usually easier (even if you're not using a new operating system) to just download the drivers for anything you need off of their website. The newest version is always there and you don't have to worry about having an old version that won't work with your OS.

If you ever have any future problems, you can always drop me a PM and I'll be glad to try and help you out.