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HP nw8000 video driver troubles
Hello all,
I installed Vista Ultimate RTM on my HP nw8000 yesterday. Finally got the login screen after a couple of reboots. After login, Vista correctly recognized my graphic chipset as an "ATI Mobility FireGL T2" and installed a Microsoft supplied WDDM driver, asking to reboot. After reboot, the green progress bar was show, after that the screen went blank. Had to power off manually after waiting a couple of minutes and reboot "last known good". I also tried the latest ATI Mobility Vista drivers and the latest Omega driver, same result for all of them. The only driver which sort of works is the nw8000 XP driver, however this does not support Aero and is not stable, for example the Winows Performance Update crashes the system when this driver is installed. Any good ideas? Is anyone running Vista with a nw8000 successfully? Thanks Chris |
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HP nw8000 video driver troubles
Hi Chris, have the exact same issue and run xp drivers as well. Currently I believe it is due to the system bios. I use f17 on (you can see it in msinfo32). On the HP site for the nw8000 drivers I can see in the revision history of the Bios that f16 introduced a new video Bios as well. I tried earlier BIOS versions as well but suspect that reverting to older system bios does not correctly revert video bios to earlier versions. I know of at least one nw8000 with F14 bios that runs the vista rtm grafic drivers and of two f17 nw8000 which fail... Please let me know you Bios version :-) -- MarkusF ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MarkusF's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=19708 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=631920 http://www.techarena.in |
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HP nw8000 video driver troubles
Hello Markus,
I was able to solve the issue myself, it was no BIOS problem (I have the latest BIOS from the HP site). I disabled all unnecessary hardware (parallel/serial ports, infrared, PCMCIA cards, ...) in the device manager and was then successfully able to install the driver for the FireGL which Microsoft supplies with Vista, Aero works great now. Then I reenabled the devices one by one and found out that my PCMCIA ISDN card from Eicon (Diva Pro) seems to be the troublemaker, if I enable this together with the FireGL driver, the screen blanks after the reboot. A Vista driver for that card is supplied by Microsoft, but this seems to be causing the troubles, a Vista driver from the manufacturer is not yet available. Best regards Chris |