I seem to have overburdened Vista (Home premium) by a major hardware
change...switching monitors 8^). Well, perhaps just coincidental, but
that's when it happened anyway.

I went to open control panel to uninstall google updater, and first got a
message that my audio driver was not Vista compatible. It's an AC97 and had
the Vista drivers from Realtek's site installed and has been working for
weeks without a hitch. I re-downloaded and reinstalled, but still got the
same message...when I open control panel, an error box comes up and tells me
the audio driver is not designed for Windows Vista (with an accompanying
beep from the working sound system...)

So I uninstalled the Realtek drivers and rebooted, and Vista told me it
needed to install drivers, which I let it do, and all was fine. But open
control panel, and 'bing' same old error message. Went to device manager
and the sound, told it to update drivers, it told me that I was already
using the best driver for my system and everything was just peachy.

Still, every time I go to control panel, 'bing', error message about audio
driver not designed for Vista; there is no "shut up and don't annoy me with
this worthless message again" box to check, and it seems there is no fix for
whatever Vista thinks is wrong. There is only an 'OK' box, when it's not
'OK', what I want to click is 'shut up you moron'.

But it gets worse. I tried to click the 'Programs and features' icon and
up pops the problem reports (after of course annoying me with the 'sound'
error box). I click 'sound' and get the security center. I click 'scanners
and cameras' and sometimes get windows update, of course always accompanied
by the nice sound error box. Other times I click an icon in CP and get
nothing, but then I click a blank area and get the sound error box, followed
by some seemingly-random CP task, maybe a previous one I clicked but didn't
get, or maybe a new surprise one, but seldom the one I want.

Biostar Nvidia Nforce 410 board with an onboard 6100 video, all drivers whql
from Nvidia's site, device manager shows all is well. Both the audio error
messages and the bizarre control panel behavior were noticed starting when I
switched monitors (plug and play, no software installed).

I just finally went ahead and activated this stupid thing a few days ago,
after it seemed all was OK; now it decides to mess up. I'm glad I put it on
an extra computer, not one I need to work reliably. Makes me appreciate XP.

Gary

Sorry, this was posted to the wrong group...I reposted it to the vista
group.
(but if you're still using XP, be grateful 8^)

Gary

"Gary R." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>I seem to have overburdened Vista (Home premium) by a major hardware
>change...switching monitors 8^). Well, perhaps just coincidental, but
>that's when it happened anyway.
>
> I went to open control panel to uninstall google updater, and first got a
> message that my audio driver was not Vista compatible. It's an AC97 and
> had the Vista drivers from Realtek's site installed and has been working
> for weeks without a hitch. I re-downloaded and reinstalled, but still got
> the same message...when I open control panel, an error box comes up and
> tells me the audio driver is not designed for Windows Vista (with an
> accompanying beep from the working sound system...)
>
> So I uninstalled the Realtek drivers and rebooted, and Vista told me it
> needed to install drivers, which I let it do, and all was fine. But open
> control panel, and 'bing' same old error message. Went to device manager
> and the sound, told it to update drivers, it told me that I was already
> using the best driver for my system and everything was just peachy.
>
> Still, every time I go to control panel, 'bing', error message about audio
> driver not designed for Vista; there is no "shut up and don't annoy me
> with this worthless message again" box to check, and it seems there is no
> fix for whatever Vista thinks is wrong. There is only an 'OK' box, when
> it's not 'OK', what I want to click is 'shut up you moron'.
>
> But it gets worse. I tried to click the 'Programs and features' icon and
> up pops the problem reports (after of course annoying me with the 'sound'
> error box). I click 'sound' and get the security center. I click
> 'scanners and cameras' and sometimes get windows update, of course always
> accompanied by the nice sound error box. Other times I click an icon in
> CP and get nothing, but then I click a blank area and get the sound error
> box, followed by some seemingly-random CP task, maybe a previous one I
> clicked but didn't get, or maybe a new surprise one, but seldom the one I
> want.
>
> Biostar Nvidia Nforce 410 board with an onboard 6100 video, all drivers
> whql from Nvidia's site, device manager shows all is well. Both the audio
> error messages and the bizarre control panel behavior were noticed
> starting when I switched monitors (plug and play, no software installed).
>
> I just finally went ahead and activated this stupid thing a few days ago,
> after it seemed all was OK; now it decides to mess up. I'm glad I put it
> on an extra computer, not one I need to work reliably. Makes me
> appreciate XP.
>
> Gary
>

"Gary R." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>I seem to have overburdened Vista (Home premium) by a major hardware
>change...switching monitors 8^). Well, perhaps just coincidental, but
>that's when it happened anyway.
>
You might be better off posting to a Vista NG, this is for XP only.

"Gary R." wrote
> Sorry, this was posted to the wrong group...I reposted it to the vista
> group.
> (but if you're still using XP, be grateful 8^)

I use Vista Ultimate RTM, have since last November. I like it. No problems
of any real significance.

Have you tried a system restore to before the issue occurred?

I recommend using a drive imaging program such as Acronis True Image Home
version 10 to image the system to an external drive. Keep a base image, and
after that image regularly. If a problem occurs that you can't correct
restore the most recent image.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]