Vista Business Edition Blank Screen

[Chris]

I just installed Vista on my Dell Inpiron 6400 w/ 1 gig RAM & 128 MB Nvidia
Go 7300 and am having an irritating issue. When I run a program the screen
blanks out then runs. What is causing this issue? Do I need to turn down
some of the Aero settings?

Thanks,
Chris Savage

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Probably the video driver, not Vista.

 

[Jeff Gaines]

I just installed Vista on my Dell Inpiron 6400 w/ 1 gig RAM & 128 MB
Nvidia Go 7300 and am having an irritating issue. When I run a program the
screen blanks out then runs. What is causing this issue? Do I need to turn
down some of the Aero settings?

Thanks,
Chris Savage

Does it happen when the UAC dialog pops up? I had this all the time on
mine until I turned UAC off.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

The Secure Desktop always presents the UAC prompt so the user would know
what that was.

 

[Jeff Gaines]

The Secure Desktop always presents the UAC prompt so the user would know
what that was.

But the point I made was my screen always blacked out when the dialog came
up, I thought it was crashing.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Oh I know. I yelled about the Halloweenish effects and that it would scare
the pants off of newbies who had no reason to expect it. During beta 1 it
came up without warning all the time. I still jump once and awhile thinking
I just crashed the box. But the Secure Desktop is there to stop all
processes except the UAC so that malware cannot piggyback on the user's
click to grant permissions. The engineers at MS found ways to do just that
if the UAC was presented on the User Desktop.

 

[Lang Murphy]

Colin,

Personally, I think the response time has improved vastly in RTM. The screen
goes black for a fraction of a second now before the UAC dlg box is thrown
and the desktop is, hmm..., greyed out (?) in the background. Surely the
mind can contemplate system failure in a fraction of a second, so I'm not
saying it's a good thing... just that it's better than it used to be. I
think in some of the Beta builds, the screen would go black for 1-2 seconds.
That surely is enough time to contemplate losing all photos, music, videos,
etc. Enough time for the the hair on the back of one's neck to stand up. No
doubt.

SP1 in February?

Lang

Oh I know. I yelled about the Halloweenish effects and that it would
scare the pants off of newbies who had no reason to expect it. During
beta 1 it came up without warning all the time. I still jump once and
awhile thinking I just crashed the box. But the Secure Desktop is there
to stop all processes except the UAC so that malware cannot piggyback on
the user's click to grant permissions. The engineers at MS found ways to
do just that if the UAC was presented on the User Desktop.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Yes, its better than beta. It may clear up even more when the video drivers
go final too.

If you mean Vista SP1 in Feb, no. Vista SP1 will release at the same time
as Longhorn Server. Vista and LH are the same codebase so the plan for the
service pack level uptick for Vista is in the second half of 2007 or later.
That likely means that LH will release at service pack level one like XP Pro
x64 did.

Colin,

Personally, I think the response time has improved vastly in RTM. The
screen
goes black for a fraction of a second now before the UAC dlg box is thrown
and the desktop is, hmm..., greyed out (?) in the background. Surely the
mind can contemplate system failure in a fraction of a second, so I'm not
saying it's a good thing... just that it's better than it used to be. I
think in some of the Beta builds, the screen would go black for 1-2
seconds.
That surely is enough time to contemplate losing all photos, music,
videos,
etc. Enough time for the the hair on the back of one's neck to stand up.
No
doubt.

SP1 in February?

Lang

 

[Lang Murphy]

Guess you haven't received the latest *** email... ;-) I'm sure you can
figure that out...

Lang

Yes, its better than beta. It may clear up even more when the video
drivers go final too.

If you mean Vista SP1 in Feb, no. Vista SP1 will release at the same time
as Longhorn Server. Vista and LH are the same codebase so the plan for
the service pack level uptick for Vista is in the second half of 2007 or
later. That likely means that LH will release at service pack level one
like XP Pro x64 did.

 

[Lang Murphy]

Colin,

As they say in the Navy... belay my last... meaning, to quote Roseanna
Roseannadana... "Nevermind".

Lang

Yes, its better than beta. It may clear up even more when the video
drivers go final too.

If you mean Vista SP1 in Feb, no. Vista SP1 will release at the same time
as Longhorn Server. Vista and LH are the same codebase so the plan for
the service pack level uptick for Vista is in the second half of 2007 or
later. That likely means that LH will release at service pack level one
like XP Pro x64 did.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I got an email from Connect but maybe not the one you are referring to. If
you have a specific question why don't you just email me?

 

[Lang Murphy]

Nah, no questions... just didn't read the thing all the way through before I
posted my first reply.

Lang