The upgrade advisor lists two things that vista might have compatibility
issues with on my motherboard (according to gigabyte and microsoft its vista
certified). The nvidia network controller and the onboard sound which is
disabled anyway. Only my modem is displayed as "will not work with windows
vista". Modems are cheap so no worries there. I was careful to buy vista
certified components. Here are my specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 Processor
GIGABYTE GA-N650SLI-DS4 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
Patriot Extreme Performance 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2
6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
PNY GeForce 8600GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI
Supported Video Card (2)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card
ASUS Black SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model DVD
ASUS 18X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe and 14X DVD-RAM Write Black SATA
Model DRW
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3250620AS 250GB 7200
RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
I'm installing drivers during the setup process. I'm not able to log into
vista. Nvidia has recently released 64 bit chipset and video drivers.
Creative labs has released 64 bit x-fi drivers with limited functinality.
The modem is the only item listed out of my whole setup that will not work.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
"Andrew McLaren" wrote:
Quote:
> "me too" <metoo@xxxxxx> wrote ... Quote:
> > suddenly stop. The folder path was windows/system32/drivers/crcdisk.sys.
> > I
>
> It's a bit misleading, actually ... crcdisk.sys is the last driver to get
> loaded, during that phase of the boot process. So it's the just last driver
> which gets displayed, even when the system boots normally. Folks sometimes
> conclude (erroneously) it must be a really buggy driver :-)
> Quote:
> > windows/system32/drivers/disk.sys. I loaded all the new 64 bit drivers
> > from
> > web sites and manufacturer discs. Vista accepted a bus driver and a
> > network
> > driver. However it would not accept a video card driver ("installation
>
> Are you installing the 3rd party drivers during the setup process? Or
> afterwards, when Vista is all installed and you've logged in for the first
> time?
>
> While it's usually good to use the vendor-supplied drivers, for performance
> and features, for maximum stability the default Microsoft drivers are often
> the best. You should normally be able to install Vista without any 3rd party
> drivers at all - unless the boot drive is on a RAID controller which needs
> special drivers.
>
> But apart from that, you should be able to get Vista installed with just
> what's on the Vista DVD. If you are seeing problems with STOP errors, I'd
> recommed you start with a clean installation of Vista, as vanilla as
> possible, with no 3rd party drivers. Get that installed, and make sure the
> machine is running okay. Then, you can go back and add hardware-specific
> vendor-supplied drivers for IDE, SATA, graphics etc. To isolate the cause of
> STOP errors, you'd probably want to do this one driver at a time: ie,
> install the graphics driver. Then use the machine for a while and satisfy
> yourself it's running okay (maybe slow, but not crashing). Then and only
> then, install the vendor SATA drivers. Again, use the machine for a while
> and satisfy yourself it's running okay. Then install the IDE drivers. Use
> the machine for a while and satisfy yourself it's running okay. And do on.
> If you start to get blue screens, you can axiomatically suspect the last
> driver you installed, is the culprit.
> Quote:
> > logo. The bsod has displayed an "IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" error, a
> > "0x000007E"
> > error (before I ran chkdsk) and another "0x000000" type error that I can't
>
> STOP 0x7E is nearly always caused by a buggy driver.
>
> But if you actually *must* install 3rd party drivers, even just to get Vista
> installed and running on the machine, then you must have somewhat unusual
> hardware. In which case it's help if we know more about what the hardware
> is, exactly.
>
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
>
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