Vista - A8R32-MVP Deluxe and SLI

I just installed VIsta Beta 2 on my new system (dual boot with XP Pro).
Installation went fine. Problem is when trying to enter the UI it reboots
both in regular and safe mode. My assumption is the problem relates to SLI
but I see nowhere in BIOS to disable it and other that removing the 2nd card
(not going to happen, system runs perfectly in XP) is there a setting in BIOS
that is obscure or that I simply missed?

System -
Antec mid tower with Antec 550W True Power PS
A8R32-MVP Deluxe
AMD Athlon FX-60
2 GB Corsair XMS
ATI 1900XT Crossfire
ATI 1900XT
Soundblaster Audigy 2 SE

onboard sound, PP, SP, and NIC #2 disabled in BIOS

Thans for any help
Gary

I have an A8N, I will check mine when I get home to see if I can find an
option in there to disable it. You might could try to disconnect the link
cable/board between the 2 cards. That way you just have a simpler 2 video
cards configuration instead of SLI configuration. That would be less
invasive than completely removing the card. Of course doing that will not
allow you to compair apples to apples with Vista and XP on your machine.

How did you get the dual boot option? Install from windows GUI? Install from
the DVD only gives the option for a clean install. I would like to test
vista on my home rig also but I dont want to screw up XP.

Jon


"Gary R." <GaryR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A9A5386A-CC18-4302-9834-61A0395FB05A@microsoft.com...
>I just installed VIsta Beta 2 on my new system (dual boot with XP Pro).
> Installation went fine. Problem is when trying to enter the UI it reboots
> both in regular and safe mode. My assumption is the problem relates to SLI
> but I see nowhere in BIOS to disable it and other that removing the 2nd
> card
> (not going to happen, system runs perfectly in XP) is there a setting in
> BIOS
> that is obscure or that I simply missed?
>
> System -
> Antec mid tower with Antec 550W True Power PS
> A8R32-MVP Deluxe
> AMD Athlon FX-60
> 2 GB Corsair XMS
> ATI 1900XT Crossfire
> ATI 1900XT
> Soundblaster Audigy 2 SE
>
> onboard sound, PP, SP, and NIC #2 disabled in BIOS
>
> Thans for any help
> Gary

Javan -

Just do a clean install on a partition other than the one XP is on and Vista
will install the multi-boot menu, listin XP as "Earlier version of Windows"..

Thanks
Gary

"Javan" wrote:

> I have an A8N, I will check mine when I get home to see if I can find an
> option in there to disable it. You might could try to disconnect the link
> cable/board between the 2 cards. That way you just have a simpler 2 video
> cards configuration instead of SLI configuration. That would be less
> invasive than completely removing the card. Of course doing that will not
> allow you to compair apples to apples with Vista and XP on your machine.
>
> How did you get the dual boot option? Install from windows GUI? Install from
> the DVD only gives the option for a clean install. I would like to test
> vista on my home rig also but I dont want to screw up XP.
>
> Jon
>
>
> "Gary R." <GaryR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A9A5386A-CC18-4302-9834-61A0395FB05A@microsoft.com...
> >I just installed VIsta Beta 2 on my new system (dual boot with XP Pro).
> > Installation went fine. Problem is when trying to enter the UI it reboots
> > both in regular and safe mode. My assumption is the problem relates to SLI
> > but I see nowhere in BIOS to disable it and other that removing the 2nd
> > card
> > (not going to happen, system runs perfectly in XP) is there a setting in
> > BIOS
> > that is obscure or that I simply missed?
> >
> > System -
> > Antec mid tower with Antec 550W True Power PS
> > A8R32-MVP Deluxe
> > AMD Athlon FX-60
> > 2 GB Corsair XMS
> > ATI 1900XT Crossfire
> > ATI 1900XT
> > Soundblaster Audigy 2 SE
> >
> > onboard sound, PP, SP, and NIC #2 disabled in BIOS
> >
> > Thans for any help
> > Gary
>
>
>

Hi Gary, just to ppint out that you have a crossfire board, not a SLI one...
Which uli drivers are you using as the work just fine with my setup...
ChrisC
"Gary R." <GaryR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A9A5386A-CC18-4302-9834-61A0395FB05A@microsoft.com...
>I just installed VIsta Beta 2 on my new system (dual boot with XP Pro).
> Installation went fine. Problem is when trying to enter the UI it reboots
> both in regular and safe mode. My assumption is the problem relates to SLI
> but I see nowhere in BIOS to disable it and other that removing the 2nd
> card
> (not going to happen, system runs perfectly in XP) is there a setting in
> BIOS
> that is obscure or that I simply missed?
>
> System -
> Antec mid tower with Antec 550W True Power PS
> A8R32-MVP Deluxe
> AMD Athlon FX-60
> 2 GB Corsair XMS
> ATI 1900XT Crossfire
> ATI 1900XT
> Soundblaster Audigy 2 SE
>
> onboard sound, PP, SP, and NIC #2 disabled in BIOS
>
> Thans for any help
> Gary

Chris - I can't get IN to Vista to install any drivers! I get to the Vista
splash screen (just before the GUI would normally appear) and it reboots. It
does the same thing in Safe Mode and also with only one of the two Crossfire
cards installed..

"ChrisC" wrote:

> Hi Gary, just to ppint out that you have a crossfire board, not a SLI one...
> Which uli drivers are you using as the work just fine with my setup...
> ChrisC
> "Gary R." <GaryR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A9A5386A-CC18-4302-9834-61A0395FB05A@microsoft.com...
> >I just installed VIsta Beta 2 on my new system (dual boot with XP Pro).
> > Installation went fine. Problem is when trying to enter the UI it reboots
> > both in regular and safe mode. My assumption is the problem relates to SLI
> > but I see nowhere in BIOS to disable it and other that removing the 2nd
> > card
> > (not going to happen, system runs perfectly in XP) is there a setting in
> > BIOS
> > that is obscure or that I simply missed?
> >
> > System -
> > Antec mid tower with Antec 550W True Power PS
> > A8R32-MVP Deluxe
> > AMD Athlon FX-60
> > 2 GB Corsair XMS
> > ATI 1900XT Crossfire
> > ATI 1900XT
> > Soundblaster Audigy 2 SE
> >
> > onboard sound, PP, SP, and NIC #2 disabled in BIOS
> >
> > Thans for any help
> > Gary
>
>
>