Martin Stein

Yesterday I installed my new 640MB nvidia 8800GTS (both on XP and Vista
Ultimate). The drivers took forever to install, and upon rebooting the safe
VGA driver is used. Uninstalling and reinstalling the driver ensued until I
looked into the event log and found the code 12 message mentioned below.
I solved the problem by removing a PCI IDE card that I used to attach a
second IDE hard drive. The hard drive is now a slave drive on the main IDE
controller. Anyhow this seems to have cleared up PCI resources. Maybe the
8800 uses a lot more DMA or I/O adresses than my old 7800GT. Since it
happened in XP as well as in Vista it does not seem to be a Vista-specific
problem.

Before removing the card I tried to swap cards (the modem and the IDE
controller) and then the system had problems booting. Removing the IDE
controller helped. Sigh.


"Marco" <derbaron@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1173532182.795707.241520@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> On 3 Mrz., 16:24, shaunppl <shaunppl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Well i cannot get the drivers to work using 2 8800GTS cards, i have the
>> warning triangle giving an error : Not enough resources This device
>> cannot
>> find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)
>
> i got the same problem.. with 2 7800 gtx!