Hi
I upgraded to vista home premium and now I am having porblems with my video
card (ATI Radeon X1600pro 512 MB) Crashes to blue screen after loading a game.

So I went to devices and found that it was coming up as a PCI
I don't know if this is the problem or not so I tride installing an older
ATI driver
and found that the games worked fine BUT! my computer would not shutdown.
It would go to the shutdown screen then crash and reboot.

I think it's a bad driver but for what?
My video card or the chipset?
And how do I fix it?

I'm thinking it was a bad idea going to vista
never had this problem with XP!!

And one more thing
I'm getting a error messege after vista bootsup it say (fAIL)
Its not telling what failed just fAIL

K8NHA Grand
nvidia nf3 250Gb chipset
1Gb DDR ram
ATI Radeon X1600 512Mb AGP
Audigy 2 value sound card

Hi,

The AGP slot is part of the PCI bus, so what you are seeing is quite normal
as far as the hardware configuration.

Check the event viewer to see what is "fail"ing at boot.

You should be using ATI's most recent driver release, not reverting to an
old one. As to the game that is crashing, is it Vista compliant?

Also, check for needed updates to the motherboard drivers from Biostar as
well as any BIOS update. These could also be the source of your problems.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"K8 notsogrand" <K8 (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0979E29F-08D2-43FA-BF49-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
> I upgraded to vista home premium and now I am having porblems with my
> video
> card (ATI Radeon X1600pro 512 MB) Crashes to blue screen after loading a
> game.
>
> So I went to devices and found that it was coming up as a PCI
> I don't know if this is the problem or not so I tride installing an older
> ATI driver
> and found that the games worked fine BUT! my computer would not shutdown.
> It would go to the shutdown screen then crash and reboot.
>
> I think it's a bad driver but for what?
> My video card or the chipset?
> And how do I fix it?
>
> I'm thinking it was a bad idea going to vista
> never had this problem with XP!!
>
> And one more thing
> I'm getting a error messege after vista bootsup it say (fAIL)
> Its not telling what failed just fAIL
>
> K8NHA Grand
> nvidia nf3 250Gb chipset
> 1Gb DDR ram
> ATI Radeon X1600 512Mb AGP
> Audigy 2 value sound card

HI,

My guess is that it is nF3 drivers. They have not been updated by nVidia
since Vista came out, and nVidia say that nF3 chipset boards are 'old parts'
and will not issue updated drivers.

It is known that nF3 chipset motherboards, with dual core CPUs on Vista, and
ATI AGP graphics cards are reverting to PCI.

I do not think that this indormation will help you much, but I thought that
you should know about nVida.

Roy Mayo.
Correct me if Im wrong, but hasnt the fine line between sanity and madness
gotten finer?


"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The AGP slot is part of the PCI bus, so what you are seeing is quite normal
> as far as the hardware configuration.
>
> Check the event viewer to see what is "fail"ing at boot.
>
> You should be using ATI's most recent driver release, not reverting to an
> old one. As to the game that is crashing, is it Vista compliant?
>
> Also, check for needed updates to the motherboard drivers from Biostar as
> well as any BIOS update. These could also be the source of your problems.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "K8 notsogrand" <K8 (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:0979E29F-08D2-43FA-BF49-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi
> > I upgraded to vista home premium and now I am having porblems with my
> > video
> > card (ATI Radeon X1600pro 512 MB) Crashes to blue screen after loading a
> > game.
> >
> > So I went to devices and found that it was coming up as a PCI
> > I don't know if this is the problem or not so I tride installing an older
> > ATI driver
> > and found that the games worked fine BUT! my computer would not shutdown.
> > It would go to the shutdown screen then crash and reboot.
> >
> > I think it's a bad driver but for what?
> > My video card or the chipset?
> > And how do I fix it?
> >
> > I'm thinking it was a bad idea going to vista
> > never had this problem with XP!!
> >
> > And one more thing
> > I'm getting a error messege after vista bootsup it say (fAIL)
> > Its not telling what failed just fAIL
> >
> > K8NHA Grand
> > nvidia nf3 250Gb chipset
> > 1Gb DDR ram
> > ATI Radeon X1600 512Mb AGP
> > Audigy 2 value sound card
>
>

Thank's for your help.
I'm not going to worry about AGP thing.

I checked the event viewer and found that three drivers are not booting up
at stratup.
1. ATI SmartGart
2. Creative dvd
3. i8042prt sptd kernel_Driver?? I have no idea what this is for??

And all my drivers are up to date but one the nForce3 chipset. becouse
there is'ent one! Same gose for biostar BIOS.
I know this is not a windows problem.
it's cheap basterds not standing behind there product!!

Your were right about the Games thay were not ready for Vista.

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The AGP slot is part of the PCI bus, so what you are seeing is quite normal
> as far as the hardware configuration.
>
> Check the event viewer to see what is "fail"ing at boot.
>
> You should be using ATI's most recent driver release, not reverting to an
> old one. As to the game that is crashing, is it Vista compliant?
>
> Also, check for needed updates to the motherboard drivers from Biostar as
> well as any BIOS update. These could also be the source of your problems.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "K8 notsogrand" <K8 (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:0979E29F-08D2-43FA-BF49-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi
> > I upgraded to vista home premium and now I am having porblems with my
> > video
> > card (ATI Radeon X1600pro 512 MB) Crashes to blue screen after loading a
> > game.
> >
> > So I went to devices and found that it was coming up as a PCI
> > I don't know if this is the problem or not so I tride installing an older
> > ATI driver
> > and found that the games worked fine BUT! my computer would not shutdown.
> > It would go to the shutdown screen then crash and reboot.
> >
> > I think it's a bad driver but for what?
> > My video card or the chipset?
> > And how do I fix it?
> >
> > I'm thinking it was a bad idea going to vista
> > never had this problem with XP!!
> >
> > And one more thing
> > I'm getting a error messege after vista bootsup it say (fAIL)
> > Its not telling what failed just fAIL
> >
> > K8NHA Grand
> > nvidia nf3 250Gb chipset
> > 1Gb DDR ram
> > ATI Radeon X1600 512Mb AGP
> > Audigy 2 value sound card
>
>