I have in my house, a desktop PC with Intel 915G motherboard (little older than 2 years). Recently I upgraded to Windows Vista Home Premium. Vista detected and installed all the devices needed for basic functioning. Only two devices didn’t work as they did in Windows XP SP2.
1) My HP Photosmart 2608, scanner and printer is working using Windows Vista default applets. The HP default scanning program doesn’t get installed, HP still doesn’t have a Vista compatible application (though their website announces coming soon). I am missing the HP application gives you convenient functionality like multi-page scanning, PDF format, etc.
(Update 10/April/2007: HP has released a new set of drivers for platforms including Vista and Vista 64 bit. The new application installation is faster than earlier and the new UI much more cleaner. Good thing HP took a little bit more time developing the new application. I still don’t understand what their installation does for over 30 minutes)
2) When I wanted to input some Audio from my cassette player (yes, I still have it around) through Audio-In I couldn’t. I checked and saw in Vista only see Mic-In Device, no Audio-In. After some searching, came across the new device driver for Vista from Realtek website. I downloaded and installed Vista Driver(32/64 bits) Driver only (R 1.63), everything is working fine once again.
