Vista - ATI Video Driver Problem / AMD X2 Workaround (works on RC2)

I do not know if this has been posted but if you have an AMD X2 (Gigabyte
K8U-939 mobo) and an ATI Video Card (Radeon 9600), you may find after
installing Vista the driver will not load (Code 43 in Device Manager). A
workaround is to download a freeware utility called EasyBCD to force Vista to
use ONE CPU.

After this change your video drivers will load. If anyone has an answer on
how to fix this properly I would appreciate it.

Did you still have the 43 problem after upgrading to R2?
You can also probably just change a setting in your BIOS to disable one of
the CPUs withoug haveing to use a utility from a a 3rd party.

"MelLopez" <MelLopez@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news53CA4B4-1D73-4048-B9A7-8A5E66EEA6F3@microsoft.com...
>I do not know if this has been posted but if you have an AMD X2 (Gigabyte
> K8U-939 mobo) and an ATI Video Card (Radeon 9600), you may find after
> installing Vista the driver will not load (Code 43 in Device Manager). A
> workaround is to download a freeware utility called EasyBCD to force Vista
> to
> use ONE CPU.
>
> After this change your video drivers will load. If anyone has an answer
> on
> how to fix this properly I would appreciate it.

My BIOS does not support that and I dont think that is supported in general
in hardware. The utility I used is a GUI which makes documented changes to
the BOOT.INI. I could have done it manually but this way is simpler and less
dangerous. Also, I am already running RC2 and its a clean install not
upgrade.

"JW" wrote:

> Did you still have the 43 problem after upgrading to R2?
> You can also probably just change a setting in your BIOS to disable one of
> the CPUs withoug haveing to use a utility from a a 3rd party.
>
> "MelLopez" <MelLopez@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news53CA4B4-1D73-4048-B9A7-8A5E66EEA6F3@microsoft.com...
> >I do not know if this has been posted but if you have an AMD X2 (Gigabyte
> > K8U-939 mobo) and an ATI Video Card (Radeon 9600), you may find after
> > installing Vista the driver will not load (Code 43 in Device Manager). A
> > workaround is to download a freeware utility called EasyBCD to force Vista
> > to
> > use ONE CPU.
> >
> > After this change your video drivers will load. If anyone has an answer
> > on
> > how to fix this properly I would appreciate it.
>
>
>

Okay, that worked (finally aero is working and vista recognizes my
videocard). But any time I click on a windows item such as 'activate
windows', I get a garbled screen, ctrl-alt-del will bring it back. Using RC
1.5, will uprade to rc2 and try it. Thanks for the solution.

"biggdave" wrote:

> Okay, that worked (finally aero is working and vista recognizes my
> videocard). But any time I click on a windows item such as 'activate
> windows', I get a garbled screen, ctrl-alt-del will bring it back. Using RC
> 1.5, will uprade to rc2 and try it. Thanks for the solution.
>
>
> Have the same problem here, works fine until I go to either install something or run a game but in my case pushing any key on my keyboard brings the screen back.