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Old 01-06-2007   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Nvidia graphics driver bug

/formerprof/ said:
> The nVidia graphics driver (96.86) distributed with Vista 32 RTM works
> properly on my system. The driver released yesterday (97.46) as well as the
> "RC2" driver (96.85) which was on nVidia's web site until yesterday both
> fail when I resume from monitor "power-down." The power to the monitor is
> restored, but the screen shows nothing but a light blue color with thin
> white diagonal lines. It's impossible to recover from this condition and a
> reboot is required. CTRL-ALT-DEL changes the color to light green.
>
> This problem is recorded in the system log with five instances of this
> error message: "IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in
> PCI slot 22, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for technical
> assistance" Each instance lists a different PCI slot.
>
> Hardware: ASUS A32SLI-Deluxe motherboard, XFX 7900GT graphics card, AMD
> 4800+ dual core 64-bit processor. I have installed the latest BIOS (1303). I've
> had no trouble with XP or Linux, both 32 and 64-bit versions.
>
> I'll appreciate any help - and if anyone has a direct pipeline to Microsoft
> or nVidia I'd appreciate having this bug passed on. I reported it to
> Microsoft verbally about ten days ago, but the report seems to have gone to
> the bit bucket in the sky.


Perhaps your best bet on something of that nature...
http://forums.nvidia.com/
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