Flasing screen after installation

[Guest]

Hi, I've installed Vista on a 30gig partition as a dual boot with XP. As
soon as the installation process reached the desktop the screen started
brteaking up and flashing. I had run the Upgrade Advisor and it said
everything was OK. I booted in Safe Mode and checked Device Manager and
everything was OK. I looked at the settings for the graphic card, which has
250 mb of ram, and it said the device was working correctly. I stoll think it
has something to do with the graphic card but what I'm at a loss. Any ideas
would be welcome. Thanks.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

I suspect its the Graphics driver too, I would check the developers website
and install the latest beta driver for Vista, either nVidia or ATI,
depending the brand card you have installed.
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[Guest]

Thanks for your comment. It was the graphic card driver, I uninstalled it and
Vista reinstalled it correctly so all is well.

Really impressed by both the Vista and Office betas, the future looks good.

 

[Guest]

I am sitting with similar problem
I installed VISTA today, when it comes to the prepare desktop and then
showing the desktop and then the whole time after that, I have this black
flashing line, very irratating.
I installed the latest ATI vista driver from ATI website, but still same
problem.
When I open the ATI Control centre, it shows mu AGP as 128X instead of 8X I
even went into the bios and set agp rate to 4x and 8x but still no effect
remains at 128X and flashing black line.
I also fiddled with the AGP drive Strength, If set to Auto in Bios, then
vista will start normaly but if i set it to manual in BIOS and it defaults to
DA, i have tried other options too, then vista loads till the logon screen
then my Monitor turns of, hard reset the machine set bios AGP drive strength
back to AUTO then Vista loads again normal.
Combination: Vista Beta 2
ATi Beta drivens and/or Generic Microsoft ATI drivers
Jetway V600DAP- via KT600 /VT8237 lates A05 Bios
Ati 9800XT 256mb

I have a feeling the OS does not set the AGP transfer rate correctly, and as
there is not jet any VISTA via chipset drivers I can not correct the issue.

 

[Guest]

My ati9600 shows the 128X there, too. It also
shows 256 MB (it's 128 MB). Still, it works
fine, which I can't say for the nvidia 6200
AGP that -was- in there. The 6200 caused very
high CPU waste: 80% using the stock accel.
driver, 20% using the nvidia web-DL driver,
and 0% using the non-accel. stock driver. The
ati 9600 is also 0% waste (good), and full
acceleration. When I say "CPU waste", I mean
80% out of (say) every 1 second everything was
dead, then 20% normal (2/10ths of a second okay),
then 8/10ths dead, and so on. All I did to
correct that was remove the nvidia 6200 & driver,
plug in the (fanless) ati 9600 and away it
went. I'm using Catalyst pkg 8.26.LH-RC0-...
It pulls a 3.7 performance rating for graphics
and 3.4 for "gaming" (but shows 256 MB gfx mem).
Works for me, at least.

J- [Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:03:02 -0700]:

 

[Guest]

I found a solution on another thread.
goto task manager, End Prosses taskeng.exe

My ati9600 shows the 128X there, too. It also
shows 256 MB (it's 128 MB). Still, it works
fine, which I can't say for the nvidia 6200
AGP that -was- in there. The 6200 caused very
high CPU waste: 80% using the stock accel.
driver, 20% using the nvidia web-DL driver,
and 0% using the non-accel. stock driver. The
ati 9600 is also 0% waste (good), and full
acceleration. When I say "CPU waste", I mean
80% out of (say) every 1 second everything was
dead, then 20% normal (2/10ths of a second okay),
then 8/10ths dead, and so on. All I did to
correct that was remove the nvidia 6200 & driver,
plug in the (fanless) ati 9600 and away it
went. I'm using Catalyst pkg 8.26.LH-RC0-...
It pulls a 3.7 performance rating for graphics
and 3.4 for "gaming" (but shows 256 MB gfx mem).
Works for me, at least.

J- [Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:03:02 -0700]:

Combination: Vista Beta 2
ATi Beta drivens and/or Generic Microsoft ATI drivers
Jetway V600DAP- via KT600 /VT8237 lates A05 Bios
Ati 9800XT 256mb

 

[Guest]

For a more permanent solution for me. goto Computer Manager, then services
and applications - services, scroll down and find Task Scheduler, now set it
from Automatic to Manual and reboot your system.
The taskeng.exe services wont run now, and now flickering or flashing screen
, black lines every few seconds.
I dont really know that the taskeng.exe does, there are a few of them
running after boot, and after removing this service from Autostarting, I ahve
alos not seen any adherce bad affect, all seems to function normaly.

Ciao

I found a solution on another thread.
goto task manager, End Prosses taskeng.exe

My ati9600 shows the 128X there, too. It also
shows 256 MB (it's 128 MB). Still, it works
fine, which I can't say for the nvidia 6200
AGP that -was- in there. The 6200 caused very
high CPU waste: 80% using the stock accel.
driver, 20% using the nvidia web-DL driver,
and 0% using the non-accel. stock driver. The
ati 9600 is also 0% waste (good), and full
acceleration. When I say "CPU waste", I mean
80% out of (say) every 1 second everything was
dead, then 20% normal (2/10ths of a second okay),
then 8/10ths dead, and so on. All I did to
correct that was remove the nvidia 6200 & driver,
plug in the (fanless) ati 9600 and away it
went. I'm using Catalyst pkg 8.26.LH-RC0-...
It pulls a 3.7 performance rating for graphics
and 3.4 for "gaming" (but shows 256 MB gfx mem).
Works for me, at least.

J- [Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:03:02 -0700]:

Combination: Vista Beta 2
ATi Beta drivens and/or Generic Microsoft ATI drivers
Jetway V600DAP- via KT600 /VT8237 lates A05 Bios
Ati 9800XT 256mb