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well actually he only has 1 harddrive, 1 cdrom and 1 floppy. theres nothign that he put in extra. well yea thats true my computer is a tower while is is like a cube. but my system probably demands more power cuz i hae alot of addons and stuff on it. my dads pc hasnt been touch ever since he put...

yea i have dsl, but my internet for some reason is pretty slow. and yea i also have an xp setup disk? whats it for?

o man, i wish i can get it on that pc cuz vist a looks so sickk

nope its perfectly fine, i tested it like a month ago on my system and it sems to be ok on my pc

lol, thats what i did took me awhile to fiure out how to do it but i did it correctly. but still shows me acpi compliant. i contacted the motherboard make "Gigabyte" and all they told me was that there was no driver :s

well what happened was it still overheated. i cant gwet really a good picture because my dad uses the camera foor work, but i can give you the specs and a link MSI Mega PC intel pentium 4 478-pin 512MB RAM 160GB western digital harddrive SiS (dont know model) 32mb Windows XP Media...

yea well my dad does run some memory takeing software because hes a stress engineer aerospace. thermal paste, i have no idea where i can get that i've heard of itbecuase im building a pc and i think i need to apply some before start the computer.

hmm...i couldnt find that on my bios ? but my mobo is acpi compliant

yes i know that it doesnt come from the OS. my dad had me install new fans and cpu fans in the computer. of course before that i dusted it completly. and it still over heats. as you said i should leave the sides off but i triede that before. i think im just going to tell my dad forget it, but...

i see, but my dad he has like something called a mega pc from msi, and it overheats ALOT. i tried to install vista and it overheated(even xp), and he has a P4 laptop and does the same thing. we tried changing the overheating-shutdown temperature and did the same.

Yes i have the lite version but still doesnt work and im so pissed off. is there anyway to bypass that acpi check after reboot? or other ways to install vista?

i see i see, i also heard that the 478 pin kinda overheats, is this true ?

when i was installing my vista on a firly old pc, i came across one of those bsod's. it told me to update my bios for some acpi problem, so i did. then i read somewhere that i would have to reinstall xp and select the acpi config when xp was starting up the installation. so i did that too. but...

hi im new at this forum i want to know if vista can run on this hardware pretty well Intel Celeron 478-pin 2.8ghz 1GB corsair RAM 80GB Western Digital HDD ATI RADEON X1050 256mb Creative sound blaster audigy se power supply 400W