So I tried it...

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Stephan said:
What more than install the OS, install the latest drivers, am I supposed
to do? Please...be so kind as to enlighten me.

Live with 1024x768 on a 1600x1200 LCD? no thank you.

If *you* have the solution to that problem for instance, that apparently
nobody else yet does, then please! Let's hear it! I'd be most interested.
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Well I don't know if the latest drivers for that video card are any good
or not personally, but I can tell you you would have to uninstall those
placed by Vista to get any sense at all out of the card.

I found that NONE of the drivers supplied with my brand new MB were
right, but did get downloaded ones that worked.

The fact is you can't explain to these fanboys that no company is going
to spend time writing drivers and then PAY to have them signed when MS
may be changing things just before release.

It was sold as an installable OS and that's what it should be, and
ignore the comments about checking "Compatibility" first, that simply
doesn't work.

My machines ALL said compatible, 3/3 failed to install without jumping
through hoops. The drivers supplied for my wireless cards were marked
Vista Ready, but obviously something was changed because they didn't
work and I had to download new ones.
 
Well I don't know if the latest drivers for that video card are any good
or not personally, but I can tell you you would have to uninstall those
placed by Vista to get any sense at all out of the card.
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The card itself actually works fine. The nVidia control panel is there,
everything in it works. I can adjust all the settings fine, the 3D Preview
works fine for adjusting the 3D settings.

Just the resolution is what doesn't work.

How would I even go about uninstalling whatever drive initially placed by
Vista? The device manager just lists my nVidia driver now so I wouldn't
even know what driver vista initially placed. I never bother to look for
that since my normal procedure with windows is to install it and then
install the latest nVidia driver.

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Are you related to the other village idiot Frank?
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Why don't you ask you mama Adam Hopalong, you piss ant, since we both did
her, maybe you're related?

You stupid *piss ant* in your size to shoes trying to kick some behind can
you at least try to be creative? You have already used that one, piss ant.
 
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Did you do hardware compatibility check? Did you do your homework?

You know the bottom line is about who is setting behind the keyboard and
mouse with your tail between your legs yapping.
 
Did you install/update the default Plug-&-Play monitor definition file for
your specific monitor ? - Without that it's impossible for the Video card
to properly know which resolution/color depth it can achieve ?
 
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How would I even go about uninstalling whatever drive initially placed by
Vista? The device manager just lists my nVidia driver now so I wouldn't
even know what driver vista initially placed. I never bother to look for
that since my normal procedure with windows is to install it and then
install the latest nVidia driver.
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This is a monitor/brand/display adapter issue.

How old is the monitor? nVidia is infamous for leaving older (and not all
that old) monitor's out of their "updated" drivers.

If you installed an "updated" driver, you can usually "roll back" the
display adapter driver in Device Manager.
 
Did you install/update the default Plug-&-Play monitor definition file for
your specific monitor ? - Without that it's impossible for the Video card
to properly know which resolution/color depth it can achieve ?
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I changed it to Digital FlatPanel 1600x1200 but it made no difference. I
even rebooted the machine afterwards thinking that maybe it wants a
reboot.

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This is a monitor/brand/display adapter issue.

How old is the monitor? nVidia is infamous for leaving older (and not all
that old) monitor's out of their "updated" drivers.
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Monitor is probably about 1.5 years old, is is a 20.1 inch 1600x1200
flatpanel.

It works flawlessly with the latest nVidia drivers under Linux.
It works flawlessly with the latest nVidia drivers under WinXP. And I
seriously mean latest, I just updated my nVidia drivers under XP a couple
of days ago.

So I don't see why nVidia would leave it out of Vista if they support it
properly everywhere else.
If you installed an "updated" driver, you can usually "roll back" the
display adapter driver in Device Manager.
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That'd just bring me back to the default driver that Vista picked,
which didn't do any better.

I actually even tried to change my monitor driver from the generic PnP
driver to Digital Flatpanel 1600x1200 but it made no difference.

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Stephan said:
Please, do me a favor...don't compare me with Alias. Yes I'm no big fan of
Vista and there are things about it I don't like, but I don't do what
Alias does. Not even remotely. My main reason to coming to this NG was
educating myself on Vista and it has been quite educational. I might
occasionally answer to OS specific discussions when such discussions
actually contain constructive statements and not insulting contests
between Alias and Frank...but I don't go around and post "Get Ubuntu" to
every vista problem post now do I?

Now, if you have any actual constructive thoughts and know of a solution
to any of the problems. Then please, by all means, I'd be interested in
hearing it. Google has not revealed much more other than that I'm not the
only one with said issues.

So I'm at the end of the road. More than install the OS and install the
appropriate drivers I can't do. But hey, if you know something I don't,
something else I could do, please do share. I will actually go give it a
try.
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You don't think for a minute these bozos have any answer to your problems,
do you? All they can do is blame you for not "doing your homework" or blame
the device manufacturer for not providing good enuf drivers. These Wintards
are truly useless. They aren't here to help anyone with Vista, because
they're incapable of doing so. They're here to be Windoze fanboys. The only
way they'd be able to get Vista working (if that's even possible) is to
have it preloaded by some manufacturer.

Shake Hands With,
Mr. Happy
 
Frank said:
So you've been commenting on Vista and all along you've never installed
it? Now you tried to install it and you can't.
Well...that knocks your technical expertise image down a whole bunch of
notches.
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Not quite down to your level Frankie boy. You're the one who can't get Linux
working on your computer but still choose to tell us how bad Linux is.
Everytime you attack someone for a certain type of behavior, we all know
that you subscribe to that type of behavior yourself, only a hundreds times
worse.

Anyway, you've had an attitude about all things MS and Vista since the
get go.
My advice, stick with the "nix's.
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That's my advice too! Run a real operating system, run Linux and leave Vista
for the Wintards that know no better.
Frank
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Shake Hands With,
Mr. Happy
 
No, it's the best the hardware vendors who wrote the drivers can do.
It's not Microsoft's job to write drivers.
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To be fair, Microsoft has to provide enough resources and "incentives" for
vendors to do so in the same way that Linux community has to do.

If you were the CEO of the vendor, why would you want to spend tremendous
efforts on doing so for the "old" hardware? Will you benefit from it?

Will you do things that only have costs but not benefits as a rational
business decision-maker?
 
So you've been commenting on Vista and all along you've never installed
it? Now you tried to install it and you can't.
Well...that knocks your technical expertise image down a whole bunch of
notches.
Anyway, you've had an attitude about all things MS and Vista since the
get go.
My advice, stick with the "nix's".
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Well wait a second there Frank!

You say that *nix is too difficult for the average user and that windows
is so much simpler. So if that's the case, you're contradicting yourself.
You are telling me to stick with the more difficult OS. =)

And actually, it installed just fine. It just runs like crap. =)

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Stephan Rose said:
Monitor is probably about 1.5 years old, is is a 20.1 inch 1600x1200
flatpanel.

It works flawlessly with the latest nVidia drivers under Linux.
It works flawlessly with the latest nVidia drivers under WinXP. And I
seriously mean latest, I just updated my nVidia drivers under XP a couple
of days ago.

So I don't see why nVidia would leave it out of Vista if they support it
properly everywhere else.


That'd just bring me back to the default driver that Vista picked,
which didn't do any better.

I actually even tried to change my monitor driver from the generic PnP
driver to Digital Flatpanel 1600x1200 but it made no difference.
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My bet is that your system doesn't have the correct monitor driver
installed. Your machine needs to know which resolutions and refresh rates it
can support, otherwise it goes to 1024 x 768 to err on the safe side

Have you tried nVida's latest beta drivers for your card?
 
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Did you do hardware compatibility check? Did you do your homework?
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Well maybe you missed it but here is the scenario. My XP install had a
problem with the file system. Some corruption somewhere. Ruled out
hardware problems with multiple independent tests of the drive which all
came back just fine.

It happens, file systems can get borked. Wouldn't be the first time I've
dealt with such a problem.

Now the only thing I still did with the XP install was move all files off
it that are of any importance or that I wanted to keep as the File System
wasn't totally hosed yet but it would only be a matter of time.

So then, knowing I have to reinstall windows in some form or another this
weekend no matter what, I decided to give Vista a test run.

Instead of buying it, I borrowed an install CD and just let it run as a 30
day trial with no product key. Plenty time for me to evaluate it. So me
installing it, *that* is my compatibility check. That's why I am using a
trial version and didn't go out and spend money like I was almost about to
do. I really don't care what some update advisor says. I care how the OS
actually performs once installed.

And as far as homework goes, what homework? What would I change about my
hardware?

I'm running an up to date Intel CPU....I'd say if Vista is not compatible
with Intel CPUs it has a severe problem.

I'm running high performance DDR2 800MHz RAM...can't ask for more there
either.

My Video card is the *best* nVidia currently has to offer! I sure am not
about to *downgrade* my video card to make Vista happy.

My Keyboard is made by MICROSOFT! I think it isn't too much to expect a
Microsoft product to work with a Microsoft Operating system?

But disregarding that, this weekend *some* MS OS get's reinstalled on this
system as on Monday it has to be running correctly, with all hardware
supported, and stable for me to use it to do work on it as I do need
Windows to support my .Net based projects.

I gave Vista a fair chance and so far it has failed. If you, or anyone
else, actually has any constructive suggestions as to something I could to
do resolve said issues, I'll gladly give it a try. If it works, Vista
will stay and I'll buy the license. If not, then tomorrow afternoon it will
be removed from this computer and XP installed and that'll be the end of
it.

Honestly, I really don't care one way or the other if it's XP or Vista as
neither will ever be my primary OS.

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My bet is that your system doesn't have the correct monitor driver
installed. Your machine needs to know which resolutions and refresh rates it
can support, otherwise it goes to 1024 x 768 to err on the safe side
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That's all fine but if I tell it to use a 1600x1200 driver, it should
believe me and allow me to use that resolution...to me, that's the purpose
of such drivers.
Have you tried nVida's latest beta drivers for your card?
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Honestly, no. I generally don't like running beta drivers. They are beta
for a reason. Though I suppose in this case I don't have anything to loose
so I'll give it a shot.


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Mr. Happy said:
Not quite down to your level Frankie boy. You're the one who can't get Linux
working on your computer but still choose to tell us how bad Linux is.
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Uhhh...well doris that's just another oen of your lies! First attempt
with urbuttoo didn't work because it couldn't recognize the P750 Matrox
vc. Remember? The one your called a "crap" video card...hahaha...aren't
you a canadian...lol!
Remember the insults you hurled at me? I do! Well I did install urbuttoo
on another box with an ati card and guess what? It's the worse linux os
out there and I've tried at least half a dozen or more over the years.
Craw back into your linux loser hole now doris before you once again
make a stupid fool out of yourself.
Frank
 
Stephen;
Your comparisons with a car, toaster and fridge are not valid.
Those 3 items are complete systems in themselves.
Windows is nothing without a computer.
For your car analogy, Windows is like the engine.
If you buy another engine, you should first check that it will work
appropriately with whatever car you have.
No matter how much a buyer spends on a component it is the buyers
responsibility to see that it works with what the buyer already has.

"I really don't care. I seriously don't. I expect that when someone
charges up to 399 for their product that it works."
That is the description of someone that should buy a car and not an
engine/buy a computer and not an operating system.
 
Stephan Rose wrote:

You say that *nix is too difficult for the average user and that windows
is so much simpler.
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You're confusing me making that statement with someone else, but then,
don't let the facts get in your way.

So if that's the case, you're contradicting yourself.

Well, that's not the case is it?
You are telling me to stick with the more difficult OS. =)
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Go with what you need, want and know. Cause I don't give a rats ass.
And actually, it installed just fine. It just runs like crap. =)
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Not on any of my 9 boxes it doesn't.
Frank
 
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