Another aero/3D question

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My system uses an onboard GeForce 6150 video chipset (Asus A8N-VM CSM
mobo)that uses 128 MB of system memory. According to everything I can find
on both MS and nVidia's sites, this should give me Flip 3D, but alas, no
joy. A bit of history: I installed the beta 2 on a new primary partition,
and let it install any drivers it had. The only yellow bang I got in Dev.
Mgr. was for the SM Bus. Vista recogonized the 6150 chipset and listed it as
such in DM along with the WDDM apparently so necessary for the 3D feature.
After a bit of digging, I downloaded and installed the 88.61 64-bit
Forceware drivers in hope that this would do the trick. In fact, quite the
opposite happened, and I could not even set the advanced video options to
Aero; in addition, the groovy visual effect that accompany
minimizing/maximizing/closing windows also disappeared. So, I unistalled the
nVidia drivers and let Vista reinstall its drivers upon reboot. Now I get
Aero, but still no Flip 3D. I rebooted into WinXP and ran the Upgrade
Advisor to see what it suggested, but it said my entire system was ready for
Vista. Any ideas here? Is 128 MB enough for all the graphic features of
Vista, or is the fact that the 6150 chip uses system memory a factor? Sorry
for the long ass post; any help is most appreciated.
 
No on board graphics for full Vista. UA prolly said good to go for Vista
Basic -- no Aero there ;;)
 
Well, as it turns out, I was pressing the wrong keys (Alt-Tab instead of
Windows-Tab) to do 3D Flip. Doh!
 
That's just not true. The Intel 9 series supports Aero.

What would make you state this?
 
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