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ATI Radeon X800GT Issues.
Since my initial install of Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade Academic
Edition. I've had a few graphical problems which I'll list. 1. All Windows Vista games (Solitaire, Freecell, Minesweeper, etc) crash the moment I load them. 2. When I open an image and choose to start the Slide Show through the Windows Picture Gallery, Explorer.exe crashes. 3. When an application is started and requires the UAC, the screen flickers off, and back on and prompts for the allow or deny dialog. Then it flickers back off and on once an option is selected. 4. The Windows Aero option is not available in the Colour Scheme. These are the only issues I've come accross so far and I'm not entirely certain what is causing them. I've spoken to a Microsoft technician and he tells me it's because my graphic drivers arent fully operational yet. However I've run the Microsoft Windows Vista upgrade advisory utility and it states my graphic card will run the Windows Aero desktop. Also, the following link... http://whql.microsoft.com/HCL/Produc...0Series&oid=19 States the availabiliy of drivers for my card. I've installed the drivers through Windows Update and also the latest 7.1 catalyst drivers from ATI but no avail. Other PC specs are as follows... MB: ASUS A8V-E DELUXE CPU: AMD 64 Athlon 3500+ RAM: 1GB Giel DDR400 GFX: ATI Radeon X800GT HDD: Seagate 160GB IDE SATA SFX: Creative Audigy OS: Windows Vista Home Premium - Base Score 4.2 I've also tried to force the Aero desktop by changing the registry values of... HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\Composition set to 1 HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\CompositionPol icy set to 2 Then restarting the Desktop Windows Manager. If anybody has any ideas, please let me know. Regards, Christopher van Dal. |
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ATI Radeon X800GT Issues.
Hi,
If you get a 4.2 base score it should works fine. Please check these things: 1. Display settings: Colors set to 32bit. 2. Window Color and Appearance: Enable transparency is Enabled (Checked) If this does not work, go to Control Panel\System and Maintenance\Performance Information and Tools, click Advanced tools - View performance details in Event log to see what is going on. Good luck "Cvandal" wrote: Since my initial install of Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade Academic Edition. I've had a few graphical problems which I'll list. 1. All Windows Vista games (Solitaire, Freecell, Minesweeper, etc) crash the moment I load them. 2. When I open an image and choose to start the Slide Show through the Windows Picture Gallery, Explorer.exe crashes. 3. When an application is started and requires the UAC, the screen flickers off, and back on and prompts for the allow or deny dialog. Then it flickers back off and on once an option is selected. 4. The Windows Aero option is not available in the Colour Scheme. These are the only issues I've come accross so far and I'm not entirely certain what is causing them. I've spoken to a Microsoft technician and he tells me it's because my graphic drivers arent fully operational yet. However I've run the Microsoft Windows Vista upgrade advisory utility and it states my graphic card will run the Windows Aero desktop. Also, the following link... http://whql.microsoft.com/HCL/Produc...0Series&oid=19 States the availabiliy of drivers for my card. I've installed the drivers through Windows Update and also the latest 7.1 catalyst drivers from ATI but no avail. Other PC specs are as follows... MB: ASUS A8V-E DELUXE CPU: AMD 64 Athlon 3500+ RAM: 1GB Giel DDR400 GFX: ATI Radeon X800GT HDD: Seagate 160GB IDE SATA SFX: Creative Audigy OS: Windows Vista Home Premium - Base Score 4.2 I've also tried to force the Aero desktop by changing the registry values of... HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\Composition set to 1 HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\CompositionPol icy set to 2 Then restarting the Desktop Windows Manager. If anybody has any ideas, please let me know. Regards, Christopher van Dal. |
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ATI Radeon X800GT Issues.
To zwz,
I am running colours at 32bit and the option of enabling transparency in the Window Colour and Appearance dialog is not available. I checked my performance logs and don't see anything out of the ordinary. Regards, Christopher van Dal. "zwz" wrote: Hi, If you get a 4.2 base score it should works fine. Please check these things: 1. Display settings: Colors set to 32bit. 2. Window Color and Appearance: Enable transparency is Enabled (Checked) If this does not work, go to Control Panel\System and Maintenance\Performance Information and Tools, click Advanced tools - View performance details in Event log to see what is going on. Good luck "Cvandal" wrote: Since my initial install of Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade Academic Edition. I've had a few graphical problems which I'll list. 1. All Windows Vista games (Solitaire, Freecell, Minesweeper, etc) crash the moment I load them. 2. When I open an image and choose to start the Slide Show through the Windows Picture Gallery, Explorer.exe crashes. 3. When an application is started and requires the UAC, the screen flickers off, and back on and prompts for the allow or deny dialog. Then it flickers back off and on once an option is selected. 4. The Windows Aero option is not available in the Colour Scheme. These are the only issues I've come accross so far and I'm not entirely certain what is causing them. I've spoken to a Microsoft technician and he tells me it's because my graphic drivers arent fully operational yet. However I've run the Microsoft Windows Vista upgrade advisory utility and it states my graphic card will run the Windows Aero desktop. Also, the following link... http://whql.microsoft.com/HCL/Produc...0Series&oid=19 States the availabiliy of drivers for my card. I've installed the drivers through Windows Update and also the latest 7.1 catalyst drivers from ATI but no avail. Other PC specs are as follows... MB: ASUS A8V-E DELUXE CPU: AMD 64 Athlon 3500+ RAM: 1GB Giel DDR400 GFX: ATI Radeon X800GT HDD: Seagate 160GB IDE SATA SFX: Creative Audigy OS: Windows Vista Home Premium - Base Score 4.2 I've also tried to force the Aero desktop by changing the registry values of... HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\Composition set to 1 HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\CompositionPol icy set to 2 Then restarting the Desktop Windows Manager. If anybody has any ideas, please let me know. Regards, Christopher van Dal. |
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ATI Radeon X800GT Issues.
Does your MOBO also support DDR2 memory. there have been reports of non aero
support with DDR@ MOBOS using only 1 Dimm instead of a pair of DDR2 Dimms. I don't know if the issues applies if the solution also applies to using 1 DDR dimm on a MOBO that supports DDR2. "Cvandal" wrote in message ... To zwz, I am running colours at 32bit and the option of enabling transparency in the Window Colour and Appearance dialog is not available. I checked my performance logs and don't see anything out of the ordinary. Regards, Christopher van Dal. "zwz" wrote: Hi, If you get a 4.2 base score it should works fine. Please check these things: 1. Display settings: Colors set to 32bit. 2. Window Color and Appearance: Enable transparency is Enabled (Checked) If this does not work, go to Control Panel\System and Maintenance\Performance Information and Tools, click Advanced tools - View performance details in Event log to see what is going on. Good luck "Cvandal" wrote: Since my initial install of Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade Academic Edition. I've had a few graphical problems which I'll list. 1. All Windows Vista games (Solitaire, Freecell, Minesweeper, etc) crash the moment I load them. 2. When I open an image and choose to start the Slide Show through the Windows Picture Gallery, Explorer.exe crashes. 3. When an application is started and requires the UAC, the screen flickers off, and back on and prompts for the allow or deny dialog. Then it flickers back off and on once an option is selected. 4. The Windows Aero option is not available in the Colour Scheme. These are the only issues I've come accross so far and I'm not entirely certain what is causing them. I've spoken to a Microsoft technician and he tells me it's because my graphic drivers arent fully operational yet. However I've run the Microsoft Windows Vista upgrade advisory utility and it states my graphic card will run the Windows Aero desktop. Also, the following link... http://whql.microsoft.com/HCL/Produc...0Series&oid=19 States the availabiliy of drivers for my card. I've installed the drivers through Windows Update and also the latest 7.1 catalyst drivers from ATI but no avail. Other PC specs are as follows... MB: ASUS A8V-E DELUXE CPU: AMD 64 Athlon 3500+ RAM: 1GB Giel DDR400 GFX: ATI Radeon X800GT HDD: Seagate 160GB IDE SATA SFX: Creative Audigy OS: Windows Vista Home Premium - Base Score 4.2 I've also tried to force the Aero desktop by changing the registry values of... HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\Composition set to 1 HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\CompositionPol icy set to 2 Then restarting the Desktop Windows Manager. If anybody has any ideas, please let me know. Regards, Christopher van Dal. |
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ATI Radeon X800GT Issues.
I don't know what's happened to change it's mind, but it seems the aero theme
loads now on start-up. I can tell this because the task bar is transparent. However, when I open any window, anything at all, the screen flickers and the task bar returns back to it's Vista Basic flat black. Games still crash and so does the Slide Show viewer. Any ideas? Regards, Christopher van Dal. "Cvandal" wrote: Since my initial install of Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade Academic Edition. I've had a few graphical problems which I'll list. 1. All Windows Vista games (Solitaire, Freecell, Minesweeper, etc) crash the moment I load them. 2. When I open an image and choose to start the Slide Show through the Windows Picture Gallery, Explorer.exe crashes. 3. When an application is started and requires the UAC, the screen flickers off, and back on and prompts for the allow or deny dialog. Then it flickers back off and on once an option is selected. 4. The Windows Aero option is not available in the Colour Scheme. These are the only issues I've come accross so far and I'm not entirely certain what is causing them. I've spoken to a Microsoft technician and he tells me it's because my graphic drivers arent fully operational yet. However I've run the Microsoft Windows Vista upgrade advisory utility and it states my graphic card will run the Windows Aero desktop. Also, the following link... http://whql.microsoft.com/HCL/Produc...0Series&oid=19 States the availabiliy of drivers for my card. I've installed the drivers through Windows Update and also the latest 7.1 catalyst drivers from ATI but no avail. Other PC specs are as follows... MB: ASUS A8V-E DELUXE CPU: AMD 64 Athlon 3500+ RAM: 1GB Giel DDR400 GFX: ATI Radeon X800GT HDD: Seagate 160GB IDE SATA SFX: Creative Audigy OS: Windows Vista Home Premium - Base Score 4.2 I've also tried to force the Aero desktop by changing the registry values of... HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\Composition set to 1 HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\CompositionPol icy set to 2 Then restarting the Desktop Windows Manager. If anybody has any ideas, please let me know. Regards, Christopher van Dal. |
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ATI Radeon X800GT Issues.
Crappy drivers. The only way I can get aero to run is use RC1 drivers, ver
8.29. I even tried the latest ones from AMD 7.2. These are absolute junk and cause Windows games to crash. They mirror your problem, aero at start up and start menu, select any app or open a window and aero crashes with no option to enable it - Vista Basic only. So much for certified drivers. Aero has not worked on my machine since RC1. All drivers since then have caused aero to fail. Obviously delivering unified drivers for all models has resulted in the X800 failing. Hope AMD gets off it's backside and fixes this problem soon. Go to the AMD site and leave feedback to the Catalyst crew and tell them of the problem and that you are not happy. Also get up MS as they delivered Vista with so called certified drivers. Certified by ??, obviously didn't test them on a X800. "Cvandal" wrote: I don't know what's happened to change it's mind, but it seems the aero theme loads now on start-up. I can tell this because the task bar is transparent. However, when I open any window, anything at all, the screen flickers and the task bar returns back to it's Vista Basic flat black. Games still crash and so does the Slide Show viewer. Any ideas? Regards, Christopher van Dal. "Cvandal" wrote: Since my initial install of Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade Academic Edition. I've had a few graphical problems which I'll list. 1. All Windows Vista games (Solitaire, Freecell, Minesweeper, etc) crash the moment I load them. 2. When I open an image and choose to start the Slide Show through the Windows Picture Gallery, Explorer.exe crashes. 3. When an application is started and requires the UAC, the screen flickers off, and back on and prompts for the allow or deny dialog. Then it flickers back off and on once an option is selected. 4. The Windows Aero option is not available in the Colour Scheme. These are the only issues I've come accross so far and I'm not entirely certain what is causing them. I've spoken to a Microsoft technician and he tells me it's because my graphic drivers arent fully operational yet. However I've run the Microsoft Windows Vista upgrade advisory utility and it states my graphic card will run the Windows Aero desktop. Also, the following link... http://whql.microsoft.com/HCL/Produc...0Series&oid=19 States the availabiliy of drivers for my card. I've installed the drivers through Windows Update and also the latest 7.1 catalyst drivers from ATI but no avail. Other PC specs are as follows... MB: ASUS A8V-E DELUXE CPU: AMD 64 Athlon 3500+ RAM: 1GB Giel DDR400 GFX: ATI Radeon X800GT HDD: Seagate 160GB IDE SATA SFX: Creative Audigy OS: Windows Vista Home Premium - Base Score 4.2 I've also tried to force the Aero desktop by changing the registry values of... HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\Composition set to 1 HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\CompositionPol icy set to 2 Then restarting the Desktop Windows Manager. If anybody has any ideas, please let me know. Regards, Christopher van Dal. |
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ATI Radeon X800GT Issues.
I too have an ATI Radeon X800 video card. I believe when I first installed
Windows Vista Ultimate I did have Aero but now do not; Windows Vista Basic is all that is available for selection. Did you finally get a resolution? My config: HP m7860n Dual-core 6400 with 2GByte memory. PCI Express ATI X800 (256ddr2 memory) video card. "Cvandal" wrote: Since my initial install of Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade Academic Edition. I've had a few graphical problems which I'll list. 1. All Windows Vista games (Solitaire, Freecell, Minesweeper, etc) crash the moment I load them. 2. When I open an image and choose to start the Slide Show through the Windows Picture Gallery, Explorer.exe crashes. 3. When an application is started and requires the UAC, the screen flickers off, and back on and prompts for the allow or deny dialog. Then it flickers back off and on once an option is selected. 4. The Windows Aero option is not available in the Colour Scheme. These are the only issues I've come accross so far and I'm not entirely certain what is causing them. I've spoken to a Microsoft technician and he tells me it's because my graphic drivers arent fully operational yet. However I've run the Microsoft Windows Vista upgrade advisory utility and it states my graphic card will run the Windows Aero desktop. Also, the following link... http://whql.microsoft.com/HCL/Produc...0Series&oid=19 States the availabiliy of drivers for my card. I've installed the drivers through Windows Update and also the latest 7.1 catalyst drivers from ATI but no avail. Other PC specs are as follows... MB: ASUS A8V-E DELUXE CPU: AMD 64 Athlon 3500+ RAM: 1GB Giel DDR400 GFX: ATI Radeon X800GT HDD: Seagate 160GB IDE SATA SFX: Creative Audigy OS: Windows Vista Home Premium - Base Score 4.2 I've also tried to force the Aero desktop by changing the registry values of... HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\Composition set to 1 HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\CompositionPol icy set to 2 Then restarting the Desktop Windows Manager. If anybody has any ideas, please let me know. Regards, Christopher van Dal. |