Comments on: Full Aero Glass on a Cheap PC?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:57:27 +0000

I just finished installing Windows Vista x64 Ultimate on my HP a1130n. To my suprise aero glass worked as well.

Here are my specs:
AMD 3500+
1GB (shows 956MB in Windows)
Radeon Express 200 with (64MB of shared RAM)

It is very interesting how neither my system RAM or video RAM meet the requirement.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:30:17 +0000

Would it work with the following…

AMD Hammer Family Proccessor – Model is Unknown – 1.60GHZ
735MB RAM
128MB SHARED VIDEO RAM
32 Bit Operating System
Windows Vista Ultimate
Radeon 7000 Edition Graphics card

If you know, please reply to jay1113@btinternet.com

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:37:18 +0000

Can you tell me how to set this up so that i can run Windows Aero on my PC? What do i have to change in the BIOS? And how do i do it. Please reply with simply instruction to the following e-mail address…

jay1113@btinternet.com

Thankyou!

By: VistaTest

VistaTest — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:09:20 +0000

btw…
I found that there is a new vista driver from realtek for the audio.
And nvdia has vista video drivers too.
Have you tried using them?

By: VistaTest

VistaTest — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:41:05 +0000

Hi,
what about the drivers for the video card and audio?

By: todd

todd — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:22:09 +0000

Alan: Sorry to hear about your experience. Yep, upgrading from XP to Vista is an iffy proposition. I was shocked my upgrade went so well. Given the warning I received from the Vista Upgrade Advisor prior to the actual upgrade (see my earlier blog post), I fully expected to not have network connection or sound support after the upgrade.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:25:56 +0000

Ripping my hair out setting up Vista. The PC I’m running is a lot better than your $500 one. Most of my drivers are NOT SUPPORTED by vista. Not 64bit. 2G ram no 3D flip, no sound, thinks the DVD buner is just a DVD. Keep going back to US defalt settings. I went back to XP. The computer is a NEC.
With the 3D flip my 12 year old has a old P3 450 running linux and has 3D flip.
Need REFUND on vista.

By: Todd Ogasawara

Todd Ogasawara — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:17:04 +0000

Tyler: I said it was a “cheap” PC. And, at $500 I think that is correct. I didn’t say it was a “cr*ppy cheap” PC.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:19:39 +0000

You have a 6600 graphics chip in there…of course it’s going to run Aero. The 6600 is a good graphics adapter. You’re YouTube video mislead me to believe you did not have anything worth a darn in there.