Help me please with my new rig and vista

ikilby

ikilby

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Hi all,

I have been building a new rig here are the specs:
Enermax Galaxy 1000 PSU
C2D E6600
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Sythe Ninja cooler
BFG 8800GTX
EVGA 680i MB

Installed Vista Home Premium
Nvidia 100.54 drivers

Then upgraded to Ultimate online
Nvidia 100.59 drivers.

Windows runs real nice but here are the issues I am seeing.

1/ When running Vanguard (MMO), will crash BSOD when it gets to 3D part after login. - did it with both NVIDIA drivers
2/ Seems to be worst when system is warmed up - CPU only at 45C maxium
3/ Just running media player watching movies online, watched two movie clips and then clicked on a third which opened IE7 and started to play a move in a window.
I clicked to maximise and it did played for two seconds stuttered and BSOD.

I have even swapped the 8800GTX as my second SLI unit is not in yet.
Made no difference !!

I am now running Prime95 to see if it is a memory issue.

Is my rig crook or NVIDIA's Vista drivers No swearing!

Any other ideas on proving the issue?
Please for my sanity

Regards
Ian
 
The Drivers have been ok for me, not had a single BSOD (fingers crossed). Does sound hardware related.
 
NVidia's Vista drivers are pretty poor. I have an office full of Vista Business x86 (32-bit) users running with the original Microsoft drivers because the NVidia 97.46 and even 100.54 drivers are giving a variety of problems - but the most common is a straight lockup of the screen and keyboard/mouse. Sometimes there is significant screen-tearing beforehand, but usually the PC will just lock up. These are pretty dull PCs - Dells with E6300's but for some reason they have 7600GT graphics cards and I really wish they didn't right now. I don't have any ATI cards for testing, but I shouldn't really need them, should I?
 
Funnily enough I thought it was sound related.

However, as I have an EVGA 680i Motherboard I am using the vista drivers from the Vista DVD.

Their are no other drivers yet to my knowledge
 
Hi all,

I have managed to fix it - nothing wrong with my rig, not memory or 8800 card.

Formatted and re-installed windows XP and system is no completley stable

Vista is nice I actually quite like it, however the NVIDIA drivers are just No swearing!!!

FFS Vista has been in development for what 6 years, and NVIDIA have had beta drivers out since last year.

Not impressed with NVIDIA at all, if you want to play 3d games with 8800 cards, stay away from Vista.

Rant over
 
Try this - the Dell suggested fix.

1. Do a fresh install of Vista (no NVidia drivers)
2. Download the XP or XP64 drivers
3. Right click on the driver install icon and select Compatibility
4. Tick the boxes for run in Win XP Compatibility Mode and Run as Administrator
5. Click apply and close.
6. Run the XP Driver install and restart the machine.
7. Enjoy stability and speed!

It seems to work for me.
 
Probably should also mention that if you run the XP drivers as suggested above you lose the Aero Glass effect. :(
 
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