Andrew

Definitely a driver issue. Try Windows update for drivers for that card.

"Jon" wrote:

> Hey MS friends! I'm sorry to bother you guys, but I "think" I'm haveing
> graphics card issues... >.< I just bought a Saphhire Radeon x1600 PRO (AGP
> 8x) which worked great in windows XP but when I installed Vista and tried to
> boot into normal mode, the screen gos black. So then of course, I booted
> into safe mode and looked around in device manage and saw that my sound card
> wasn't being recognized (Soundblaster Live! 24bit) so I went to Creative's
> website and downloaded the driver. The sound card is now recognized in the
> device manager. So with the sound card off of my list, the thought of the
> problem being my graphics card crossed my head. So I went to Sapphires
> website... no vista drivers. Next I went to ATI's website. They had there
> Catalyst Beta for Vista available so I tried that. It didn't help anything
> but I noticed under the device manager, the graphics card was still running
> off of the MS Driver (NOT ATI'S DRIVER)... So I'm a little confused on the
> problem. If anybody could point me towards a working driver, or fix to
> whatever the problem is, that would be nice. =D
>
> -Jon