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Hello!
What does WHQL stand for? As far as I know, it means that the device and the
related device driver work properly in order to provide customers high
quality of service.
I have Asrock 4CoreDual-VSTA motherboard with VIA PT880 Ultra chipset and
nVidia Geforce 6600 GT AGP display adapter.
Games ran poorly with the drivers provided with Vista installation, so I
decided to upgrade them. I got the latest WHQL-sertified drivers from nVidia
and... the problems started.
When an application "turns off" Aero (like when you press ctrl + alt + del,
or that UAC window appears for user input for example), the screen gets
corrupted and unreadable. If you turn Aero off completely, you can stop even
dreaming of using Windows Vista. Games run smoothly thou.
This problem is, as far as I know, affecting everyone with the similar
hardware: VIA PT880 Ultra chipset and nVidia AGP displayadapter and nothing
seems to help solving this issue. Every nVidia driver after the 97.46 version
is affected by this and has been so for several months.
I'm now in the situation where I have to install new drivers if I want to
play a game and uninstall them if I want to use Vista properly. nVidia seems
to be completely ignorant about the situation, you get some response from
VIA, but they say that the bug is in displaydrivers. Asrock suggest people to
use nVidia 97.19 drivers.
I'm getting so frustrated now. There is nothing I can do. I get no response
from nVidia what so ever and the situation to others with the same problem
have not gotten any better luck.
Why are those drivers WHQL-sertified when they don't work?
What does WHQL stand for? As far as I know, it means that the device and the
related device driver work properly in order to provide customers high
quality of service.
I have Asrock 4CoreDual-VSTA motherboard with VIA PT880 Ultra chipset and
nVidia Geforce 6600 GT AGP display adapter.
Games ran poorly with the drivers provided with Vista installation, so I
decided to upgrade them. I got the latest WHQL-sertified drivers from nVidia
and... the problems started.
When an application "turns off" Aero (like when you press ctrl + alt + del,
or that UAC window appears for user input for example), the screen gets
corrupted and unreadable. If you turn Aero off completely, you can stop even
dreaming of using Windows Vista. Games run smoothly thou.
This problem is, as far as I know, affecting everyone with the similar
hardware: VIA PT880 Ultra chipset and nVidia AGP displayadapter and nothing
seems to help solving this issue. Every nVidia driver after the 97.46 version
is affected by this and has been so for several months.
I'm now in the situation where I have to install new drivers if I want to
play a game and uninstall them if I want to use Vista properly. nVidia seems
to be completely ignorant about the situation, you get some response from
VIA, but they say that the bug is in displaydrivers. Asrock suggest people to
use nVidia 97.19 drivers.
I'm getting so frustrated now. There is nothing I can do. I get no response
from nVidia what so ever and the situation to others with the same problem
have not gotten any better luck.
Why are those drivers WHQL-sertified when they don't work?