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I have a brand new system that I have just put together, here are the basic
specs:
Shuttle SN27P2 XPC with NForce 570
AMD X2 3800+ Brisbane
2 x Corsair CM2X1024-6400PRO
2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320 GB
NEC DVD Burner
EVGA GeForce 7900GS 256M PCI Expressx16
I got the hardware, put it together and installed XP Pro (32-bit). I made
sure everything was working and the hardware was good and then ran the Vista
Upgrade Advisor. It gave me no real errors, a lot of unknowns where the
motherboard was concerned though. So I proceeded to install Windows Vista RC1
64-bit (cleanly by booting from the DVD).
First off, I could not get Vista to recognize my drives which were set at
RAID 0. I put in the 64-bit drivers that came with the Shuttle and also tries
to find more drivers online (don't think I ever found any). I also tried
several different settings in the BIOS. Win XP had no problem working with
the RAID settings. I finally gave up and just installed without RAID, after
shutting it all off in the BIOS. (Funny part here is that at one point Vista
did install but could not boot from what it installed so somehow it had
recognized the drives but mucked something up somewhere.)
So, then Vista installed but immediately the color on the screen was horrid.
I realized it was stuck at 4-bit color depth but the install was proceeding
and I figured this might be normal.
The install finished and rebooted into Vista - still 4-bit color. I logged
in and went to the device manager. A few things had not been recognized. I
had drivers for those and then my video card had stated that the driver did
not have enough resources to load (or something similar) Code 12. Ok, I fixed
the items that weren't recognized and rebooted... into still 4-bit color.
So I went about updating the driver for the video card. I had obtained
NVidia's latest drivers for Vista RC1. Got those in, and still video card had
the Code 12 error. So I started snooping. Everything else was fine except the
video card. I went down to each piece of hardware and opened it up to see if
any of them had any sort of error. Finally I found that the PCI Bus had
problems allocating 2 blocks of memory, even though it said it was working
properly. The errors received when trying to allocate the 2 blocks of memory
were a conflict with some other device. I went through and tried to find a
device or set of devices that were conflicting with it but couldn't. I then
tried to find new drivers and could not. The driver being used is a Microsoft
version. Neither MSFT nor NVidia nor Shuttle had any different drivers.
So there I was stuck, I couldn’t get the PCI Bus to load without errors and
then I am assuming this was causing the problem with the graphics card as
well.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? I have tried most of the things posted
on this site for similar things.
Thanks in advance.
specs:
Shuttle SN27P2 XPC with NForce 570
AMD X2 3800+ Brisbane
2 x Corsair CM2X1024-6400PRO
2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320 GB
NEC DVD Burner
EVGA GeForce 7900GS 256M PCI Expressx16
I got the hardware, put it together and installed XP Pro (32-bit). I made
sure everything was working and the hardware was good and then ran the Vista
Upgrade Advisor. It gave me no real errors, a lot of unknowns where the
motherboard was concerned though. So I proceeded to install Windows Vista RC1
64-bit (cleanly by booting from the DVD).
First off, I could not get Vista to recognize my drives which were set at
RAID 0. I put in the 64-bit drivers that came with the Shuttle and also tries
to find more drivers online (don't think I ever found any). I also tried
several different settings in the BIOS. Win XP had no problem working with
the RAID settings. I finally gave up and just installed without RAID, after
shutting it all off in the BIOS. (Funny part here is that at one point Vista
did install but could not boot from what it installed so somehow it had
recognized the drives but mucked something up somewhere.)
So, then Vista installed but immediately the color on the screen was horrid.
I realized it was stuck at 4-bit color depth but the install was proceeding
and I figured this might be normal.
The install finished and rebooted into Vista - still 4-bit color. I logged
in and went to the device manager. A few things had not been recognized. I
had drivers for those and then my video card had stated that the driver did
not have enough resources to load (or something similar) Code 12. Ok, I fixed
the items that weren't recognized and rebooted... into still 4-bit color.
So I went about updating the driver for the video card. I had obtained
NVidia's latest drivers for Vista RC1. Got those in, and still video card had
the Code 12 error. So I started snooping. Everything else was fine except the
video card. I went down to each piece of hardware and opened it up to see if
any of them had any sort of error. Finally I found that the PCI Bus had
problems allocating 2 blocks of memory, even though it said it was working
properly. The errors received when trying to allocate the 2 blocks of memory
were a conflict with some other device. I went through and tried to find a
device or set of devices that were conflicting with it but couldn't. I then
tried to find new drivers and could not. The driver being used is a Microsoft
version. Neither MSFT nor NVidia nor Shuttle had any different drivers.
So there I was stuck, I couldn’t get the PCI Bus to load without errors and
then I am assuming this was causing the problem with the graphics card as
well.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? I have tried most of the things posted
on this site for similar things.
Thanks in advance.