Radeon x1600 Pro Pci-e Black Screen on Boot

[Guest]

I have a Radeon x1600 Pro 512mb PCI Express x16. Everything during the
install of vista seems to work fine, however after the install's final reboot
(when its supposed to get you to create your windows username) all I see is a
black screen with the mouse cursor (which does seem to move - not frozen).
The only way I can get to a desktop is if I boot into safemode where I can
install the ATI Catalyst Vista drivers which seem to work. Once I restart the
computer from safe mode Windows seems to work correctly with Glass enabled
etc. However if I reboot again, I get the black screen. So it looks like if I
want glass I have to boot into safe mode and reinstall the ATI Vista drivers
before I can boot into regular mode.

I know that the Radeon Mobility x1600 has had some issues and only works
with the standard VGA display adapter driver (which obvisouly doesnt support
glass). Is it maybe because the Mobility and the PCI-E versions are built on
the same chipset?

Is anyone else having problems like this? Please let me know.

 

[Guest]

I have been having the same issue, only difference is my card is the AGP
version. Everything works great when i'm in the regukar desktop but as soon
as a driver installs and restarts the pc it has to go into safe mode or it
will go to a black screen.

 

[Guest]

A quick update even though I just posted, now after the black screen I am
getting a BSOD. I was updating my graphics card drivers to the ATI Vista Beta
drivers in Aero, upon restart I got the usual black screen but a few seconds
later it was followed by a BSOD that said something to the effect of crash
dump and logged some data and automatically restarted. If I try to go right
back to start normal it does it again.

 

[Guest]

Yes, It is quite frustrating. There must be some kind of solution or driver
configuration that will make this more workable...

Anyone else having these problems?

 

[Guest]

Update from earlier, if I disable my display adapters and leave them that way
then vista will restart without any problems whatsoever. I have been running
it this way since the last post and not had any of the issues, but I
shouldn't have to have my display adapters disabled either.

I have tried both the current ATI Vista Beta drivers and the Vista system
installed drivers but still have the same problem in the end.

 

[Guest]

You and I are in the same boat my friend... Disabling the adapter or using
the builtin Windows generic VGA Driver seems to work however this is not too
usefull since it obvisouly doesn't support the glass theme. It also seems a
bit slower when moving windows around and such.

 

[Guest]

OK, I just reinstalled from a XP installation as a new installaion on a
another hard drive. This time I told it to check for updates before install,
and everything seems to work fine now! Glass is finially working and I can
reboot the pc WITHOUT HAVING TO GO INTO SAFE MODE FIRST! if you can dont
install from DVD boot, rather just install from XP or something.

 

[Guest]

So your saying you did an upgrade from WinXP then and it all works fine now
right?

 

[Guest]

No, I didnt upgrade my XP installation, I just installed it to another
harddrive while still in XP. I have it setup as a dual boot now... Just stick
the DVD in the drive while youre in XP and ask it to get all updates etc and
it should work... it did for me at least... Good Luck

 

[Guest]

Might try that this next week, I did end up getting a driver to work finally
so I could enable my card. I'm using Catalyst 8.5 for WinXP and the drivers
are working so far, now I only have issues 25% of the time when I restart.
Glad to hear that yours is working well though.

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, I cannot get the Catalyst 6.5 for WinXP to even install. (I
assume you meant 6.5, as it is the newest version) I can't try the method
Brad posted either, so I'm still stuck with black screens. I've tried both
the windows and ATI drivers, and turned down hardware acceleration to none.
I am running the AGP version of the card.

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, I cannot get the Catalyst 6.5 for WinXP to even install. (I
assume you meant 6.5, as it is the newest version) I can't try the method
Brad posted either, so I'm still stuck with black screens. I've tried both
the windows and ATI drivers, and turned down hardware acceleration to none.
I am running the AGP version of the card.

 

[Guest]

Just wanted to let you guys know that I'm using thw Windows WDDM driver dated
4/26/2006 Driver version 7.7.9.0 which seems to be working fine still.
Benchmark isnt as good with the wondows drivers but it works...

 

[Guest]

I was having the issue where I got a black screen after I installed Vista
Beta 2. I have the AGP version of the card. I could boot into safe mode,
uninstall the driver, and boot normally. After I installed the Catalyst
driver in normal mode and rebooted, it would blue screen. I then had an idea
since I'm using an older Intel motherboard. I went into the BIOS and AGP
aperture was set to 64MB. I changed it to 256MB, the highest it would go, and
voila! Its working now. Won't help you folks with PCI-e I guess.