Hello,

I just put a new system together with an quad core extreem duo processor,
NVIDIA 8800 GPX Video card, 2 Gigs of Domniator DDR2 Ram, and an NVIDIA 680i
Mother board. I also have a SATA 250 GB drive for my OS and a SATA 500 GB
drive for software. A pretty good system for right now I'd say. I'm not
overclocking anything and have more fans in this chassi than I ever thought
possible.

I purchased Vista Home Premium (Full version) and installed it fine. It was
very easy to set up and looks great.

I have noticed that I can't install FEAR at all, and had to install
Battleground 2 in safe mode. That stuff dosen't bother me as much as the
ongoing lock up problems I have that have no rhyme or reason. It will lock
up at idle at times, other times it will lock up during any application. All
lock ups are un-announced and undiagnosed by Vista. I have to do a hard reset
and Vista asks me upon my next start up if I'd like to start in safe mode.
Most of the time I don't, but when I do, there are no drivers loaded to do
anything practical.

I also have one outstanding update that will not instal from Microsoft.
Every time it fails to install.

I did install the 680i driver update that corrected an issue with SATA
drives on Vista with their mother boards.

Does anyone else have this problem, and does anyone have any suggestions on
how to fix it? I'm not slamming Vista; I figure that it is just the usual
bugs that happen on any new release.

BTW, I sent off for the 64 bit OS version and will get it in a few days....I
hope that helps. That is one thing I think is bogus - I paid $240 @ best buy
and you'd think for that kind of money you'd get both versions - had to pay
$10 more for the 64 bit, and wiat for the mail to get it.

Check your system and video drivers in the control panel. When installing
the newest Nvidia for Vista drivers for my video card (although it said it
was successful), the drivers were not associated with my Video card. Vista
by default also recognized some of my chipset incorrectly which caused buggy
operations and lockups.

"busyman1972" wrote in message
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Hello,

I just put a new system together with an quad core extreem duo processor,
NVIDIA 8800 GPX Video card, 2 Gigs of Domniator DDR2 Ram, and an NVIDIA
680i
Mother board. I also have a SATA 250 GB drive for my OS and a SATA 500 GB
drive for software. A pretty good system for right now I'd say. I'm not
overclocking anything and have more fans in this chassi than I ever
thought
possible.

I purchased Vista Home Premium (Full version) and installed it fine. It
was
very easy to set up and looks great.

I have noticed that I can't install FEAR at all, and had to install
Battleground 2 in safe mode. That stuff dosen't bother me as much as the
ongoing lock up problems I have that have no rhyme or reason. It will
lock
up at idle at times, other times it will lock up during any application.
All
lock ups are un-announced and undiagnosed by Vista. I have to do a hard
reset
and Vista asks me upon my next start up if I'd like to start in safe mode.
Most of the time I don't, but when I do, there are no drivers loaded to do
anything practical.

I also have one outstanding update that will not instal from Microsoft.
Every time it fails to install.

I did install the 680i driver update that corrected an issue with SATA
drives on Vista with their mother boards.

Does anyone else have this problem, and does anyone have any suggestions
on
how to fix it? I'm not slamming Vista; I figure that it is just the usual
bugs that happen on any new release.

BTW, I sent off for the 64 bit OS version and will get it in a few
days....I
hope that helps. That is one thing I think is bogus - I paid $240 @ best
buy
and you'd think for that kind of money you'd get both versions - had to
pay
$10 more for the 64 bit, and wiat for the mail to get it.

Be prepared for worse with the 64 bit version. A lot of network card drivers
don’t work properly and you may have to experiment with video drivers.
Nvidia have not exactly done well there...

As to the lockups I found the Nero shipped with my MB was the likely suspect
since uninstalling that has removed the problem, but of course that depends
on the version shipped. Certainly if something works on 32 it is not
guaranteed to work on 64.

64 also nitpicks drivers far worse than 32. If it's a kernal driver it won't
work at all if it's not signed and Vista locks you out unless you uninstall
it, where the 32 bit only warns you and doesn't start it.

I have a number of games which all run better on XP 32 than on either Vista,
of course that is probably something the Nvidia drivers don't help with and
quite honestly having two 7950 cards in SLI mode has been problematic and
certainly not worth the expense, I am actually going to build another
machine and use one of the cards in that. My advice would be keep something
XP to actually USE whilst treating Vista as an experimental version, or you
will end up going over the same ground a number of times before hitting the
"Activation" trap...

Charlie

"busyman1972" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I just put a new system together with an quad core extreem duo processor,
NVIDIA 8800 GPX Video card, 2 Gigs of Domniator DDR2 Ram, and an NVIDIA
680i
Mother board. I also have a SATA 250 GB drive for my OS and a SATA 500 GB
drive for software. A pretty good system for right now I'd say. I'm not
overclocking anything and have more fans in this chassi than I ever
thought
possible.

I purchased Vista Home Premium (Full version) and installed it fine. It
was
very easy to set up and looks great.

I have noticed that I can't install FEAR at all, and had to install
Battleground 2 in safe mode. That stuff dosen't bother me as much as the
ongoing lock up problems I have that have no rhyme or reason. It will
lock
up at idle at times, other times it will lock up during any application.
All
lock ups are un-announced and undiagnosed by Vista. I have to do a hard
reset
and Vista asks me upon my next start up if I'd like to start in safe mode.
Most of the time I don't, but when I do, there are no drivers loaded to do
anything practical.

I also have one outstanding update that will not instal from Microsoft.
Every time it fails to install.

I did install the 680i driver update that corrected an issue with SATA
drives on Vista with their mother boards.

Does anyone else have this problem, and does anyone have any suggestions
on
how to fix it? I'm not slamming Vista; I figure that it is just the usual
bugs that happen on any new release.

BTW, I sent off for the 64 bit OS version and will get it in a few
days....I
hope that helps. That is one thing I think is bogus - I paid $240 @ best
buy
and you'd think for that kind of money you'd get both versions - had to
pay
$10 more for the 64 bit, and wiat for the mail to get it.

having lockups here too since loading vista. usually last 1 minute each so
wait it out and see if it works normal again which mine does. dell is
working on this for me.

"busyman1972" wrote:

Hello,

I just put a new system together with an quad core extreem duo processor,
NVIDIA 8800 GPX Video card, 2 Gigs of Domniator DDR2 Ram, and an NVIDIA 680i
Mother board. I also have a SATA 250 GB drive for my OS and a SATA 500 GB
drive for software. A pretty good system for right now I'd say. I'm not
overclocking anything and have more fans in this chassi than I ever thought
possible.

I purchased Vista Home Premium (Full version) and installed it fine. It was
very easy to set up and looks great.

I have noticed that I can't install FEAR at all, and had to install
Battleground 2 in safe mode. That stuff dosen't bother me as much as the
ongoing lock up problems I have that have no rhyme or reason. It will lock
up at idle at times, other times it will lock up during any application. All
lock ups are un-announced and undiagnosed by Vista. I have to do a hard reset
and Vista asks me upon my next start up if I'd like to start in safe mode.
Most of the time I don't, but when I do, there are no drivers loaded to do
anything practical.

I also have one outstanding update that will not instal from Microsoft.
Every time it fails to install.

I did install the 680i driver update that corrected an issue with SATA
drives on Vista with their mother boards.

Does anyone else have this problem, and does anyone have any suggestions on
how to fix it? I'm not slamming Vista; I figure that it is just the usual
bugs that happen on any new release.

BTW, I sent off for the 64 bit OS version and will get it in a few days....I
hope that helps. That is one thing I think is bogus - I paid $240 @ best buy
and you'd think for that kind of money you'd get both versions - had to pay
$10 more for the 64 bit, and wiat for the mail to get it.