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Installing Windows Vista Beta 2
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
I finally got my hands on a copy of Windows Vista Beta 2 and wouldn’t you know it, the 
motherboard in my test system bit the dust. My goal in testing Vista was to use the same system throughout the entire beta program in order to see how my hardware would fare with each successive release of Windows Vista. So I ordered a new, comparable motherboard that carried the same onboard ATI RadeonXpress 200 graphics system with 128 MB of shared memory and accepted my AMD Athlon 64 3400+ CPU. However, I did decide to add another 512MB chip to bump my RAM up to 1GB.
While I waited for the package to arrive, I read the Beta 2 Technical Reviewer’s Guide from cover to cover. While it is, as expected, sprinkled with marketing material, it is also packed with pertinent information, lots of screen shots, and because it’s a full color, glossy paper publication, was fun to read.
Once my motherboard and RAM arrived, I reassembled my system, inserted the Beta 2 DVD and began the installation procedure. It, too, was a fun and painless experience. I will chronicle my Beta 2 installation experiences for this edition of the Windows Vista Report. Installing Windows Vista Beta 2
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