Vista - Display Problem

I currently installed vista on my computer. I have an Asus MB M2N32-SLI
Premium, Athlom 64 X2 6000, GeForce 5900 GT.

When installing nvidias lates driver my screens to the "snow" or static no
display visable. I can boot into safe mode and uninstall the drivers. I have
the forceware 101.41 installed currently and it works, however the logon
screen is still showing the green snow. Any suggestions?

CCopeland wrote:
Sheesh, not sure if the snow is relevant to the actual card driver since
the boot up display may not have gotten round to loading it properly.
Can you get into the BIOS and see if there's a setting for which display
to start with, there's usually a couple of options like AGP / PCI etc. I
assume you have a PCIexpress card since it's an SLI motherboard. I have
one of these but it runs XP so not much comparison. The card is
different too so not much there to compare either

Are you running 64 bit or 32 bit Vista by the way?

What I would try is...

Go to the ASUS web site and download any drivers they have for all parts
of that motherboard, if there are newer ones than yours remove the
NVIDIA driver and install the ASUS package. There may be NVidia drivers
for other parts of that MB too so look there also.

Then check to make sure all references to the video driver are gone, get
the new package again and reboot making sure you stop anything like
Norton and other "Security" software from running at startup before you
reboot. Nothing "Should" interfere but can't be too careful.


Then reinstall the driver package after it restarts and before doing
anything else.

Obviously if you think of anything else that might be relevant before
you do this ask first because installing those MB drivers etc might
cause trouble, not that I think it will but again better be safe than
sorry and there's always a chance.

You may have to go back to an older driver, or wait for an update (Sigh)
but you could also look here

Does the monitor cable plug in at the monitor end or is it wired in directly?
If it plugs in then try another cable. It sounds as though the cable is
faulty. If it is wired in, then you might be looking at a new monitor.

"Charlie Tame" wrote:

I do have all the latest motherboard drivers installed. I am running Dual
monitors and have unplugged both and tried them one at time, still same
problem. With older drivers I am now just getting the "snow" at the logon
screen or when I am running a full screen applicaion in one monitor the
othere is "snow".

"Dwarf" wrote:

Try booting into safe mode.
--
Paul


"CCopeland" wrote:

Right in safe mode I can install older driver that work 90% of the time. I
still have "snow" at the green Welcome, loding/logon screen and will load
into the desktop fine. Just looking for a fix for the smaller issue.

"PaulB" wrote: