I do not know if this has been posted but if you have an AMD X2 (Gigabyte
K8U-939 mobo) and an ATI Video Card (Radeon 9600), you may find after
installing Vista the driver will not load (Code 43 in Device Manager). A
workaround is to download a freeware utility called EasyBCD to force Vista to
use ONE CPU.

After this change your video drivers will load. If anyone has an answer on
how to fix this properly I would appreciate it.

Did you still have the 43 problem after upgrading to R2?
You can also probably just change a setting in your BIOS to disable one of
the CPUs withoug haveing to use a utility from a a 3rd party.

"MelLopez" wrote in message
news
I do not know if this has been posted but if you have an AMD X2 (Gigabyte
K8U-939 mobo) and an ATI Video Card (Radeon 9600), you may find after
installing Vista the driver will not load (Code 43 in Device Manager). A
workaround is to download a freeware utility called EasyBCD to force Vista
to
use ONE CPU.

After this change your video drivers will load. If anyone has an answer
on
how to fix this properly I would appreciate it.

My BIOS does not support that and I dont think that is supported in general
in hardware. The utility I used is a GUI which makes documented changes to
the BOOT.INI. I could have done it manually but this way is simpler and less
dangerous. Also, I am already running RC2 and its a clean install not
upgrade.

"JW" wrote:

Did you still have the 43 problem after upgrading to R2?
You can also probably just change a setting in your BIOS to disable one of
the CPUs withoug haveing to use a utility from a a 3rd party.

"MelLopez" wrote in message
news
I do not know if this has been posted but if you have an AMD X2 (Gigabyte
K8U-939 mobo) and an ATI Video Card (Radeon 9600), you may find after
installing Vista the driver will not load (Code 43 in Device Manager). A
workaround is to download a freeware utility called EasyBCD to force Vista
to
use ONE CPU.

After this change your video drivers will load. If anyone has an answer
on
how to fix this properly I would appreciate it.

Okay, that worked (finally aero is working and vista recognizes my
videocard). But any time I click on a windows item such as 'activate
windows', I get a garbled screen, ctrl-alt-del will bring it back. Using RC
1.5, will uprade to rc2 and try it. Thanks for the solution.

"biggdave" wrote:

Okay, that worked (finally aero is working and vista recognizes my
videocard). But any time I click on a windows item such as 'activate
windows', I get a garbled screen, ctrl-alt-del will bring it back. Using RC
1.5, will uprade to rc2 and try it. Thanks for the solution.


Have the same problem here, works fine until I go to either install something or run a game but in my case pushing any key on my keyboard brings the screen back.