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HD2400Pro & Vista Woes

ubern00b

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Hi All

Today I installed Vista Ultimate x86 on my new media center box. My graphics card is detected as a "Standard VGA Adaptor" and in device manager has the yellow exlamation mark next to it. Entering the properties of the device it says "This device cannot start" and seems to indicate some sort of problem. Installing CCC doesnt help, it doesnt seem to install the driver.

The confusing part is that everything works just fine in XP which I had installed earlier in the day. Anyone heard of a similar problem and have any advice or ideas to try?

System breakdown:

Corsair HX520W
E6400
ASUS P5K-E/WiFi-AP
2GB G.Skill PK
Seagate 7200.10 320gb SATAII (Boot Drive)
Seagate 7200.10 750GB SATAII (Storage)
Pioneer DVR-212DBK
MSI HD2400Pro PCI-E

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome!
 
You're installing the Vista driver, right?

Have you tried uninstalling all ati software, then using drivercleaner. Restarting and then installing the driver again? The original driver install must have got corrupted somehow.
 
Yes, Vista driver, check.

The first time I installed Vista, I did removall all ATI Software on the system and used driver cleaner but still no joy. Formatted and reinstalled again, and again same story. Thing is before the drivers are installed, the card should still not have a yellow exclamation mark and "this device cannot start" in device manager, surely? I Know I will be restricted to res/colours etc as its using a generic driver at that point, but Vista is indicating a hardware problem of some sort.

Just dont get why XP works flawlessly and Vista throws a wobbly.
 
Right so I RMA'd the 2400 and got a 2600 and it has exactly the same problem. Now I am really stumped and its really getting to me. Starting to think something else in the system could be causing it not to work but I have no idea what to try or where to start, especially because everything works just fine in XP. Stumped!

My only other option is to get an nvidia card and see if that works. Any ideas?
 
Hi, here is what might work for you, but firstly uninstall all ATI related stuff using add/remove in control panel See if you have a folder in your c: drive called ATI. If so go back to the Standard VGA Adaptor in hardware, double click on and select update driver. Now don't let it search for a driver but select browse my computer, direct it to the ATI folder and make sure that include subfolder is ticked. Click on next and so on and the correct driver should now be installed. You can now run the ATI setup again to install the CCC..
Chris
 
Doing what was suggested, Vista said it couldnt find any compatible drivers. After doing a lot more testing, I have some more information. Reinstalled XP to do some testing and loaded 3DMark06, only, it wouldnt load. It hangs on startup. Trying Aquamark it seems to run through the "demo" but when doing one of the benchmarks at a specific point it always crashes to desktop.

Just stuck the card in another machine today that my mate built up and it works perfectly in Vista, runs 3DMark and Aquamark and generally just works as expected.

I am thinking it must be the motherboard. Having tried a 2400 and 2600 and getting the exact same result I was going to order an 8500GT just to see if my setup liked an nVidia card better for some reason but even if it did it would point to a problem with something in my system. Im just looking for someone to confirm it could well be the motherboard really... :D
 
it could be that the 2600 you have is not listed in ati's driver, common problem actually. you could either modify the driver inf to add support for your card or the best way to do things is to install the omega drivers which shoudl do the trick for you. omega drivers can be gripped from guru3d site.
 
The 3dmark and aquamark crashing problem is a driver problem within the program. 3dmark has a hotfix out which resolves the problem. Aquamark lost support a long time ago.

edit: i meant dll not driver
 
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ghost101 said:
The 3dmark and aquamark crashing problem is a driver problem within the program. 3dmark has a hotfix out which resolves the problem. Aquamark lost support a long time ago.
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Thanks for the headsup, this solved my issue in XP. Still having the issues in Vista. Going to flash to the latest bios for my board (changelog states the latest bios only updates CPU Microcodes) as a last ditch attempt before RMA'ing it.
 
Feel like a numpty. BIOS update resolved all issues. Apparently the only fixes in the update were for CPU Microcodes. Oh well its working now at least :D Thanks all for your suggestions/help.
 
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