I purchased Vista Ultimate with a 500gbhd this past week and neither works. I purchased it from Tigerdirect/CompUSA, $200 plus, and went back to the store to be told that if I’d bring in the machine he’d give it a cursory (my word) check for ‘nothing’. I assured him that since I’ve been in the mainframe to client/service business for my entire life, I know the machines and the software and this combo is a POS. There are simply no VIA/Microsft drivers for my AMD 64FX Abit processor even though the machine worked like a charm with Windows XP. China or India will come out with an operating system to take on this fraud. MS now threatens to leave the USA because of Zero.
Why do they support Democrats if they don't like paying higher taxes? What rubs me the wrong way is most people are now corporate citizens first, American citizens second, if at all. What ever happened to being an American first, employee second? The new culture of being a citizen of the world, in other words without a country, is against human nature and isn't going to have a happy ending.
Something sounds fishy with your story.
Your processor has nothing to do with it. You should know that, and you should also know that Vista’s 64 Bit was built around AMD’s instruction set, which is one of the reasons why Intel took the bullet and licensed the technology from AMD. You do not need a driver for your CPU in other words.
Also the rudimentary drivers for the rest of the chipset will allow you to boot into the OS to allow you to independently install proper drivers as needed, if they are needed as is the case with every OS ever made(well except OS X which has such a narrow driver list that is easy to include inside the OS all the necessary drivers).
Your issue falls on two places, VIA or user level.
Vista is trash. They should put XP virtualization on all versions of Windows 7 including the lower end. People will be happier and MSFT may say themselves from defecting customers.
I am no Apple fan but you can run windows better on a new Mac. Google and Apple are killing MSFT and supposedly the newer Google Andrioid stuff will eat more into MSFT business.
I do not like any of the companies because they are all lib. Google is Skynet but Microsoft is a co-owner in MSNBC which is a disgusting network.