Another reason to hate Vista

[theoldwolf]

There are not sufficient obscenities in the English language (or French, Italian, German, Dutch, Romanian, Serbian, Croatian, Lingala or Catalan) to express my contempt for Windows Vista or the AMD Turion Chipset.

I just tried re-installing Alcohol 120% (which runs fine on my XP box, thank you) because I have an install file for another program stored as an .mdf image.

And I get a BSOD. Which won't go away. Until I run a system restore.

OK, so Alcohol is not compatible with Vista. Sheesh. I can't check the compatibility of every program I've ever used - worst case scenario, it should refuse to run, not go out into the weeds and clobber my system during the install process.

Hqiz Microsoft yarg snarl snap hqiz. Thank you.

Comments

[stevenroy.livejournal.com]

[This program?] It looks like Vista support was "officially" added in version 1.9.6.4719. Which version are you using?

The problem here might just be that Vista "can't check the compatibility of every program" either. It's possible that a part of the software installs as a device driver (which isn't uncommon for some CD-burning software), and Windows (any version) won't know there's an incompatibility until after it attempts to start the driver. The bigger problem is that drivers get full access to every system resource, so when a driver crashes, there's no telling what else that driver may have taken with it. That's why it's a blue-screen every time.

So if that is the problem here, updating Windows from Vista to 7 might not fix it. Updating the driver itself to a version compatible with Vista (and 7) probably will.

(If it was my own computer, I might be adventurous enough to try booting in safe mode - assuming that works - and delving into the drivers manually in an attempt to identify the problem driver and disable it. Might've been interesting to see what effect that would have...)