When I installed the RTM of Vista, I had a Radeon card in my system. I was
never able to successfully install with this card installed. Constant BSOD
right before the final boot. I went and bought another cheaper card so I
could use Vista.

I waited the month, and attempted to reinstall the Readeon. It still can not
be used in Vista, and with the amount of people who have written about this
problem, still no answer appears. Any idea what is causing this? THe BSOD
comes so fast, I can't see it. But if you do a search, there are other
people who are reporting this same problem. I want to play Oblviion on
Vista, but I need a better video card.

Contact ATI for updated drivers. That is the only possible fix for your
problem.

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"jplappo" <jplappo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When I installed the RTM of Vista, I had a Radeon card in my system. I
> was
> never able to successfully install with this card installed. Constant
> BSOD
> right before the final boot. I went and bought another cheaper card so I
> could use Vista.
>
> I waited the month, and attempted to reinstall the Readeon. It still can
> not
> be used in Vista, and with the amount of people who have written about
> this
> problem, still no answer appears. Any idea what is causing this? THe
> BSOD
> comes so fast, I can't see it. But if you do a search, there are other
> people who are reporting this same problem. I want to play Oblviion on
> Vista, but I need a better video card.

"jplappo" <jplappo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9F42B229-72A3-4F94-A3F7-956D263CD077@microsoft.com...
> When I installed the RTM of Vista, I had a Radeon card in my system. I
> was
> never able to successfully install with this card installed. Constant
> BSOD
> right before the final boot. I went and bought another cheaper card so I
> could use Vista.
>
> I waited the month, and attempted to reinstall the Readeon. It still can
> not
> be used in Vista, and with the amount of people who have written about
> this
> problem, still no answer appears. Any idea what is causing this? THe
> BSOD
> comes so fast, I can't see it. But if you do a search, there are other
> people who are reporting this same problem. I want to play Oblviion on
> Vista, but I need a better video card.

Seems to be a common problem, at least with the AGP version of the X1600
Pro.

I got around this by swapping in another ATI card, which works fine. Then I
upgraded to the newest drivers from ATI's website and put the X1600 back in,
and it works. They key was that both cards were ATI so they use the same
driver. If you are using a non-ATI card right now, it's hard to install the
new ATI drivers.

You can also try hitting F6 to install a newer driver (off a disk or CD)
during Vista setup. Haven't tried that.

I wonder if deleting the ATI drivers from the Windows drivers folders (the
ones that ship with Vista) would force Vista to boot to a standard VGA video
mode and then let you install the newer drivers. The built-in drivers seem
buggy.


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"Colin Nash [MVP]" <abc@123.xyz> wrote in message
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>
> "jplappo" <jplappo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9F42B229-72A3-4F94-A3F7-956D263CD077@microsoft.com...
>> When I installed the RTM of Vista, I had a Radeon card in my system. I
>> was
>> never able to successfully install with this card installed. Constant
>> BSOD
>> right before the final boot. I went and bought another cheaper card so I
>> could use Vista.
>>
>> I waited the month, and attempted to reinstall the Readeon. It still can
>> not
>> be used in Vista, and with the amount of people who have written about
>> this
>> problem, still no answer appears. Any idea what is causing this? THe
>> BSOD
>> comes so fast, I can't see it. But if you do a search, there are other
>> people who are reporting this same problem. I want to play Oblviion on
>> Vista, but I need a better video card.
>
> Seems to be a common problem, at least with the AGP version of the X1600
> Pro.
>
> I got around this by swapping in another ATI card, which works fine. Then
> I upgraded to the newest drivers from ATI's website and put the X1600 back
> in, and it works. They key was that both cards were ATI so they use the
> same driver. If you are using a non-ATI card right now, it's hard to
> install the new ATI drivers.
>
> You can also try hitting F6 to install a newer driver (off a disk or CD)
> during Vista setup. Haven't tried that.
>
> I wonder if deleting the ATI drivers from the Windows drivers folders (the
> ones that ship with Vista) would force Vista to boot to a standard VGA
> video mode and then let you install the newer drivers. The built-in
> drivers seem buggy.

If anyone has had some practice at that, please post your experience(s) and
a brief description of the limitations of doing this. I have a computer
with a Radeon X1300, and it blue-screened on *every* attempted default
install of Vista RC1 (I ran clean install twice, then upgrade twice,
accepting defaults in all cases). The error code uniformly was 0x000000EA,
which IIRC is a video driver conflict.

My girlfriend's computer, with *all* hardware being approved by the Upgrade
Advisor, failed to load about half of her hardware.

Is there a way to manually specify which [detected] devices are loaded on
install? I'm sure by the time I get to upgrading

If you have a card in the PCI slot next to the AGP slot move it to another
slot, since the agp and first slot share resources on some MOBOs.

"Charles Chambers" <cchamb2@qwest.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Colin Nash [MVP]" <abc@123.xyz> wrote in message
> news:5DE1BE4C-D66B-4C53-AAA2-FDF566DAD513@microsoft.com...
>>
>> "jplappo" <jplappo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:9F42B229-72A3-4F94-A3F7-956D263CD077@microsoft.com...
>>> When I installed the RTM of Vista, I had a Radeon card in my system. I
>>> was
>>> never able to successfully install with this card installed. Constant
>>> BSOD
>>> right before the final boot. I went and bought another cheaper card so
>>> I
>>> could use Vista.
>>>
>>> I waited the month, and attempted to reinstall the Readeon. It still can
>>> not
>>> be used in Vista, and with the amount of people who have written about
>>> this
>>> problem, still no answer appears. Any idea what is causing this? THe
>>> BSOD
>>> comes so fast, I can't see it. But if you do a search, there are other
>>> people who are reporting this same problem. I want to play Oblviion on
>>> Vista, but I need a better video card.
>>
>> Seems to be a common problem, at least with the AGP version of the X1600
>> Pro.
>>
>> I got around this by swapping in another ATI card, which works fine.
>> Then I upgraded to the newest drivers from ATI's website and put the
>> X1600 back in, and it works. They key was that both cards were ATI so
>> they use the same driver. If you are using a non-ATI card right now,
>> it's hard to install the new ATI drivers.
>>
>> You can also try hitting F6 to install a newer driver (off a disk or CD)
>> during Vista setup. Haven't tried that.
>>
>> I wonder if deleting the ATI drivers from the Windows drivers folders
>> (the ones that ship with Vista) would force Vista to boot to a standard
>> VGA video mode and then let you install the newer drivers. The built-in
>> drivers seem buggy.
>
> If anyone has had some practice at that, please post your experience(s)
> and a brief description of the limitations of doing this. I have a
> computer with a Radeon X1300, and it blue-screened on *every* attempted
> default install of Vista RC1 (I ran clean install twice, then upgrade
> twice, accepting defaults in all cases). The error code uniformly was
> 0x000000EA, which IIRC is a video driver conflict.
>
> My girlfriend's computer, with *all* hardware being approved by the
> Upgrade Advisor, failed to load about half of her hardware.
>
> Is there a way to manually specify which [detected] devices are loaded on
> install? I'm sure by the time I get to upgrading
>

I got the BSOD STOP 0x000000EA after first reboot after Vista (Ultimate RTM)
setup with ATI Radeon card in AGP slot.
When i installed Vista with a Geforce4MX it was successfully.
Then i changed VGA cards - now Vista booted, installed drivers automatically
and asked for reboot. At this point, i did NOT reboot and installed the
actual ATI Vista drivers (Catalyst 7.1). After reboot everything was fine.

"jplappo" wrote:

> When I installed the RTM of Vista, I had a Radeon card in my system. I was
> never able to successfully install with this card installed. Constant BSOD
> right before the final boot. I went and bought another cheaper card so I
> could use Vista.
>
> I waited the month, and attempted to reinstall the Readeon. It still can not
> be used in Vista, and with the amount of people who have written about this
> problem, still no answer appears. Any idea what is causing this? THe BSOD
> comes so fast, I can't see it. But if you do a search, there are other
> people who are reporting this same problem. I want to play Oblviion on
> Vista, but I need a better video card.