Windows Vista Fails to install using an ATI X1600 Pro AGP 512MB Vi

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I have a problem installing Vista (any build) using my ATI X1600 Pro AGP
512MB video card. I own 2 of these cards. One is a X1600 Pro AGP 256MB built
by Diablotek and the other is a 512MB made by ATI.

When using the 512MB card, during the "Completing installation" phase, the
system gets the blue screen of death and shuts down less than a minute or so
before Vista is installed. If I boot the system again I get the same error.
If I boot in Safe Mode I get the message: "Installation can not be completed
in safe mode"

The Diablotek 256MB card works fine.
Has anyone else had this problem?
 
My X700 was having problems with crashes, etc. as well. Forcing the card to
run @ AGP 4X in the BIOS solved the problem for me.

MB
 
My Motherboard ASUS P4S800D-X Has no options in the BIOS to control the speed
of the AGP card.
 
I have a brand new system runing a core2 duo chip with a gig of ddr2 667 RAM
and a very nice ATI Radion XT1600 256Meg runing in the PCI Express socket

Naturally I thought Vista would fly, HA HA HA

When I finally got it to install it took ages to get to the desk top, the
mouse runns as fast as you like but when I try and open any window that take
ages to display. I tried fetching the RC Vista driver from ATi and that had
no effect at all. the only way I can get it to run is to disable the ATI
drivers and use the Vista one. The draw back of this is Aero Glass will not
run and if I re boot the machine it defaults abck to the ATI drivers and go
slow resumes.

Has any one else experienced this. I gave up in the end and re installed XP

Andy
 
Believe it or not my ATI X1600 Pro AGP 256MB card runs great with both the
ATI and Vista video drivers. My problem is only related to the ATI X1600 Pro
AGP 512MB card.
 
I have roughly the same problem. I have a Club 3D-built ATI Radeon X1600 Pro
512MB AGP, and the installation crashes at the same stage as yours do. But
after the crash I have only two options, start Windows XP and Vista Rollback.
Nothing seems to work. I tried setting the AGP speed to 4X, but that didn't
help. I have no idea what to do about the problem.
 
Looks like we'll have to wait for Build 5840 or the RTM because ATI will not
support Vista at this time. I suspect the problem is a bad ATI driver. I
can't explain why some people have no problems with their X1600 Pro AGP 512MB
cards if that is really true. I'd like to know if other people with the same
model ATI video card works. My brother has that card and his works fine but
his is a PCI-express card.
 
Have you checked to see if your system BIOS is up to date and have you
checked to insure that the speed of your AGP slot in your BIOS is set to
that required by the card (probably 8X)? Also if you have any other card in
the PCI slot next to the AGP slot have you moved it to another location?
 
That's the error message I am getting too!
It took a while to attempt to slow down the BSD so I could see it on screen.
It helped to read your picture to know where to look on my display. Thank you
very much.
 
I wonder why they haven't posted a driver for RC2 Build 5477 or later.
I read on their web site they are about to release a RC2 driver.
Their slow response is causing ATI customers to wonder if it was smart to
purchase an ATI graphics card.

I can't even get ATI to admit many customers are getting the same error.
They could informally leak not only a confirmation of the problem but a
workaround including a good driver file or which ever file is to blame. Is
that asking too much?
If we can get an entire Windows Vista Build leaked with links to Microsoft
to download it I don't think it would be too hard for someone to leak the fix
we need.
I wonder if the RTM release will work.
 
Anders said:
Here's a photo of the bluescreen I get during the installation. I had to
first press F8 and then disable automatic restarts on error to see this,
the
display shuts down a second or so before the computer crashes.
http://img285.imageshack.us/img285/1962/dsc00739gt4.jpg
Looks like ATI is to blame.
Click to expand...

One reason for an infinite loop error with ATI drivers is an inadequate
power supply.
Even if the graphics card ran fine in XP, Vista requires more from the card
than XP did.
I had the same error and it went away when I installed a 650W power supply
as opposed to
my old 500W supply.

Tom Lake
 
hum.... I am haviong the same problem, the first installation I tried was to install using upgrade, not a clean install, I managed to get to windows vista desktop and all, but it crashes in like a few seconds after. i have test using a clean install, the blue screen appears in the end of the installation, and crashes, just like what described here, I have already posted the compability problems on the wikipedia page, and currently finding solutions

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If I can get Vista to complete the install by disabling both video adapters
after the first reboot of the Vista installation do you think the power
supply could still be bad?
 
I have tried 3 different motherboards on 2 PCs and all 3 motherboards fail if
using this card.

1. ASUS P4S800D-X (Sis 655FX & 964 Chipset)
2. ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe (Intel 875P Chipset)
3. Giga-Byte[GA-8IPE1000-G Rev 4.0] (Intel 865PE Chipset)

I am running the latest BIOS on all 3 motherboards.
There is no AGP speed setting for any of the motherboards
as far as I can see. The only PCI cards I have are my SoundBlaster Audigy 2
ZS Platinum and an ATI HDTV Wonder. I removed both cards and the problem is
still there.

After thinking about your questions I thought it would be smart to tweak any
motherboard setting that may be contributing to this problem.

I used my PC with the ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with the following
changes to the BIOS:

1 Stopped overclocking and set Performance Mode to Standard.
2. I made sure Graphic Adapter Priority was set to AGP/PCI.
3. Changed Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA to No.(was yes)
4. Changed Aperture Size to 256MB from default of 64MB.
5. Changed MPS Revision to 1.4 from default of 1.1

I can't believe it but Vista installed perfectly!

I wondered if the overclocking was the problem so I returned the system back
to overclocking. (AI Overclock Timer 10% and Performance Mode to Turbo)

I was still able to install Vista with no problem.

The only thing that I thought was worth changing was Aperture Size so I
changed it back to 64MB.

The problem returned. (Aperture Size was the problem)

I hoped the other ASUS motherboard has an Aperture Size of 64MB but it was
256MB by default so I can't say what will make the other ASUS motherboard
work. In my opinion this is not the real fix for this ATI Video card failure.

I don't think the power supply is the problem (430 Watt) because I can get
it to work by changing the Aperture size. (Is 430 Watt sufficient?)

Since I couldn’t get Vista Build 5840 to install the problem is still the
ATI Video Driver. I wonder if the ATI Radeon RC 2 driver will be newer than
the driver included with Build 5840. Does anyone have any leaked information
 
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