Anyone had any success with the ATI X1600 AGP 512MB video card? Tried
several times and always got a blue screen with this card during setup,
saying driver stuck in infinite loop. The only way I was able to get Vista
installed was to slap in another video card (ATI X800... older but better
card, but partially fried due to a fan failure and doesn't work for 3d games
anymore), install the newer ATI Catalyst drivers (8.31.100.0) to get through
setup and initial configuration, and then slap the X1600 back in afterwards,
which luckily uses the same driver. Works perfectly now that I made it
through setup, presumably because of the newer driver. It's almost as if
the driver on the Vista DVD can't handle this card, but insists on trying
to. I suppose I could also have figured out how to tell setup to just use a
default VGA driver instead of it's built-in ATI driver.

I tried some RC2 builds too and they had the same problem with this card
during setup.

32bit version of Vista on a Asus P4P800E motherboard, for the record.

Anyway, anyone else seen this?


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Colin Nash
Microsoft MVP (www.microsoft.com/mvp)
Windows - Shell/User

Colin Nash [MVP] wrote:


I tried some RC2 builds too and they had the same problem with this
card during setup.

32bit version of Vista on a Asus P4P800E motherboard, for the record.

Anyway, anyone else seen this?

Negatory. Worked ok for me with an X1800 PCIe on an ABIT ab9. Some oddity of
the install disk drivers and the PCIe bridge chip on your card to make it
talk to AGP? Sounds like just the thing that might get missed in a test, not
to mention precisely the sort of thing that wouldn't be an issue for an X800

"Robert Moir" wrote:

Colin Nash [MVP] wrote:


I tried some RC2 builds too and they had the same problem with this
card during setup.

32bit version of Vista on a Asus P4P800E motherboard, for the record.

Anyway, anyone else seen this?

Negatory. Worked ok for me with an X1800 PCIe on an ABIT ab9. Some oddity of
the install disk drivers and the PCIe bridge chip on your card to make it
talk to AGP? Sounds like just the thing that might get missed in a test, not
to mention precisely the sort of thing that wouldn't be an issue for an X800

I have the same card and am getting the same error. Unfortunately I don't
have another card to pop in there. Suggestions anyone?


"Colin Nash [MVP]" wrote in message
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Anyone had any success with the ATI X1600 AGP 512MB video card? Tried
several times and always got a blue screen with this card during setup,
saying driver stuck in infinite loop. The only way I was able to get
Vista installed was to slap in another video card (ATI X800... older but
better card, but partially fried due to a fan failure and doesn't work for
3d games anymore), install the newer ATI Catalyst drivers (8.31.100.0) to
get through setup and initial configuration, and then slap the X1600 back
in afterwards, which luckily uses the same driver. Works perfectly now
that I made it through setup, presumably because of the newer driver.
It's almost as if the driver on the Vista DVD can't handle this card, but
insists on trying to. I suppose I could also have figured out how to tell
setup to just use a default VGA driver instead of it's built-in ATI
driver.

I tried some RC2 builds too and they had the same problem with this card
during setup.

32bit version of Vista on a Asus P4P800E motherboard, for the record.

Anyway, anyone else seen this?


--
Colin Nash
Microsoft MVP (www.microsoft.com/mvp)
Windows - Shell/User

Here's what you can try:

I bet you have a VIA chipset motherboard. Go to your device manager and change te drivers for the CPU - AGP to PCI bridge.

Choose to install a VIA AGP 2.0/ AGP 3.0 to CPU controller to get it to work in full force.

The problem is with the VIA chipset.

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