Just putting together a spare PC from bits that I know work fine and a fresh install of Vista.
The odd thing is it just won't work with anything but standard graphics drivers. No matter what card.
I started off with an ATI card. That worked fine until I installed the drivers - starting Vista gave me a blue screen. Uninstalling the driver in safe mode fixed the problem. Reinstall and the problem came back. It was 100% predictable. No drivers = OK; drivers = blue screen. It didn't matter if I installed the drivers from the disc that came with the card, from the ATI website, or from Windows update.
I tried taking out 2 of the PCs memory modules - no difference. I tried swapping with the other 2 memory modules. No difference.
So I gave up, removed the ATI drivers, took the ATI card out, and put in a Nvidia card. With that card and the standard windows drivers, no problem. When I installed the Nvidia drivers Vista won't start. It doesn't blue screen, just hangs. Again, uninstalling the drivers in safe mode fixes it, and again, reinstalling either from the disc, the Nvidia website or Windows update gives the same problem. And as with the ATI card it's 100% predictable. No drivers = OK; drivers = hanging black screen.
What? I mean, what?
How can 2 totally different cards have (more or less) the same problem? They were both working fine a couple of weeks ago last time I checked. Could it be a motherboard thing? And if so, what it might be and how I could figure it out? I haven't got a spare mobo to test out.
Don't really fancy making do with the default Vista drivers
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
