[plug] My new PC - a little disappointed...

[Kai]

Gavin Chester wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 12:29 +0800, Blake Munro wrote:
> [...]
>> Nobody is going to like hearing this, but after about 15 cups of
>> coffee and the loss of my entire weekend, I gave in and installed
>> Vista on my PC. It's all working beautifully right now.
> 
> Rather than crossing to the 'dark side' have you tried other distros, 
> particularly non-debian ones for the sake of isolating cause of problems? 
> 
> You can run one of the many live versions to check hardware recognition,
> of course. The only problem with that is specific (ie, non-oss like
> nvidia) drivers won't be included. But, it will prove recognition of
> other hardware.
> 
> Gavin 

A little off topic but I found UBCD (ultimate boot cd) to be really 
helpfull diagnosing either RAM or HDD associated problems. This might 
not be right up your ally since Vistuffed is working with no problems, 
but I thought I'd mention it.