£10 Reward to anyone that can fix my problem, its driving me mad now

Hi,

If anyone can fix my problem Il send them £10 by paypal, Its driving me mad and I dont know what to do apart from go out and buy a new motherboard which I shouldnt have to do.

Heres my machines spec :

AMD X2 4200+
AliveNF7G-HDready Motherboard
BFG 8800GT OC
4GB Matched Corsair DDR2
600w Thermaltake Toughpower PSU with Quad 12v Rails
2 x 250GB SATA Drive

Ok on XP everything runs fine and Crysis and Bioshock play very nicely and smooth with no problems.

My problem is with Vista, I can only install Vista when I disable my PCI express and run on the onboard graphics. As soon as I run the machine from the 8800gt vista either freezes completly on the loading screen or it says Windows has disabled the adapter as it is incompatible

Ive tried formatting both drives about 5 times, tried it on Vista 32 and Vista 64, tried taking some of the ram out, tried loads of different drivers, updated my bios, Ive tried everything I can think of and im stumped.

The only option I can think of is to get a new motherboard but I cant really afford it as Ive just spent out loads on the other bits.

PLEASE HELP !!!

have the drivers for the 8800GT been confirmed compatible with vista, especially the 64bit ones? I expect they have, nvidia are quite good in that department

yup someone done figured it out, DISABLE your onboard video device. If that doesn't work that maybe I figured it out, you have an IRQ conflict. They are rare these days but it still happens, try moving your video card to another slot or one of you cards relocated so the bios can reassign its IRQ's

He does not want to pay the 10 pounds :>>

lol, donate it to charity!

Anyway, it's been less than 2 hours.

On some of the Nvidia chipsets, the 8800 starts out at a higher then normal PCI-Express chipset frequency. I think on some it starts out at 150 when it recognizes the 8800. You could try to lower that back to the 100 that most cards run at. Just my 2 cents. Although that really doesn't seem to go to the whole "works in XP but not in vista" thing. Worth a shot, though.


Vista sux...

Hi, sorry for the slow reply, just got back home, many thanks for your responses.

Yes I disbaled the onboard graphics and the driver for the 8800gt is the very latest, released just yesterday, I have also tried previous drivers and the one that came on the CD with the card they are all confirmed to work with vista. I cannot change the slot the card sits in as I only have one PCI-E slot.

I havnt tried the things mentioned by "cruiseover ide" I will try them now and let you know the results.

Thanks again.

Scott

No problem at all. Call Microsoft and tell them you want to return downgrade Vista or downgrade it to XP Pro, and all your problems will disappear.

Send my £10 to the Make a Wish Foundation.

But I dont want to go back to XP, I like Vista and theres no reason why any of my stuff shouldnt work on it as each part is suppossed to be compatible with vista.

Dont have another card to try but the 8800gt is working perfectly in XP so I cant imagine theres a problem with the card itself

Something to try...(not too nice nor logical, but software is strange xD)

using the onboard video, go to vista, see what video drivers are being used, write them down, uninstall the 8800GT drivers. Restart, go to XP, erase those vista drivers, restart, activate your 8800GT, go to vista and cross your fingers.

thanks for your suggestions, il give them a go

Hi Dooyas, thanks for your suggestion, at what point do I turn off windows updates ? I cant remember seeing the option during the install process.

I tried the previous 2 posts suggestions by the way with no luck

oh i see, Ive been installing vista without the net being connected so I guess that cant be the problem, thnx anyway tho