   Vista Beta 2 + NForce 4
  So, I managed to get vista installed and running last night.  Just about everything ran great.  Just about.  Unfortunately it didn't pick up my GeForce 6600 GT because it messed up with the nForce4 PCI-Express Root Port drivers and thus couldn't see my video card.  Oddly enough, after much googling on the subject I couldn't find anyone who had a solution to the problem, although there were several (but not a great many) people who had the same issue.  At first it was a generic PCI port driver giving me the error, so I updated it with the nForce4 PCI-Express Root Port driver from windows update.  No good.  So I grabbed beta drivers from nVidia.  No good.  A lot of work.  So very little gain.At any rate, the error it gave me regarding the driver was that the system didn't have enough resources (code 12).  Made me miss the DOS days.  So on the side of caution, I disabled as much as I could just in case the error message was right (how I wish it was that simple) but the error kept coming back.Has anyone else run into this problem and able to find a workaround?  Or am I stuffed until nVidia comes out with some usable drivers?  Thanks.   
  Vista Beta 2 works great on my 6600GT PCIe + nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition. Beta video drivers (88.61) work great as well.   ;  very stupid question here, if you know what the problem is and from how you diaged it, it sounded like you were in windows, so how did you see this problem if it could not find the graphics card, or where you viewing on a onboard graphics... in which case could be bios issue giving onboard priority over graphics card;Quote:Original post by wilhilvery stupid question here, if you know what the problem is and from how you diaged it, it sounded like you were in windows, so how did you see this problem if it could not find the graphics card, or where you viewing on a onboard graphics... in which case could be bios issue giving onboard priority over graphics cardThe answer:Magic.Actually, the answer is that Vista loaded a generic driver in place of the specialized drivers.  In this case I got a slow generic vga driver.  My guess is that whatever generic driver it may use for the PCI port driver only allowed for minimal communication to the PCI-E.  I don't really know how PCI-E works or whether any of it is backwards compatible in any respect so I could be just talking out of my ass here.  But I do know that it loaded a generic VGA driver (scrnvga in case you're wondering) which allowed me to still use vista, albeit in a rather slow un-glass way.;  Well, unfortunatly I cant help you there, I only used one of the first preview/pre beta releases (think winhec) ages ago and havent had time to mess around on beta 2 or any others, if it isnt that, im out!standard things I can suggest are asking on the microsoft public newsgroups clicky.do you have a cd that came with your motherboard, and if not, look online, try downloading and reinstalling ALL drives like chipset and more, if this does not work, I really can not suggest anything.   ;Quote:Original post by wilhilstandard things I can suggest are asking on the microsoft public newsgroups clicky.Which is from my expirience not too helpful with Vista issues. I had completely different problems with Vista and Aaron Stebner, whom I've found through his blog, was very helpul once I have contacted him using email. Kudos to Microsoft personnel for really great tech support. This is unlike Creative, who doesn't even have Beta 2 drivers yet.   ;Quote:Original post by vNistelrooyQuote:Original post by wilhilstandard things I can suggest are asking on the microsoft public newsgroups clicky.Which is from my expirience not too helpful with Vista issues. I had completely different problems with Vista and Aaron Stebner, whom I've found through his blog, was very helpul once I have contacted him using email. Kudos to Microsoft personnel for really great tech support. This is unlike Creative, who doesn't even have Beta 2 drivers yet.really quickly, you know the reason they probably dont have drivers is because it is actually a beta and not the official release. Dont think companies are bad because they cant help with betas, just think better of the ones who do help!   ;Quote:Original post by wilhilreally quickly, you know the reason they probably dont have drivers is because it is actually a beta and not the official release. Dont think companies are bad because they cant help with betas, just think better of the ones who do help!Still, the Beta 2 is a public beta. For audio cards the driver model didn't change much, they could have released drivers by now. nVidia and ATi have released WDDM drivers ages ago.   ;Quote:Original post by wilhilstandard things I can suggest are asking on the microsoft public newsgroups clicky.do you have a cd that came with your motherboard, and if not, look online, try downloading and reinstalling ALL drives like chipset and more, if this does not work, I really can not suggest anything.Yeah, I tried the XP drivers and the Vista beta newsgroup.  No luck whatsoever.  Oh well, it's not the end of the world, I'm sure it'll all be hammered out eventually.;  sorry I could not be more help, if you have posted on the microsoft public newsgroups, just wait a few hours and there may be a answer! I have to admit that I have not used the public newsgroups in a good few years, but the partner and the msdn newsgroups, I usually find that if I post a message before going to bed and then look in the morning, there is usually a answer!You may want to try the public msdn newsgroups, clicky and then click on community at the side or support, sorry I cant remember! or go to google and type msdn public newsgroups (sorry to tired to make link, 4:14AM!).Anyway, I hope you get a answer here! and remember it a Beta, not a release.. as much as it may work, or not! If this is just a testing machine (what you should do for betas, incase situations like this where you can mess up your system), maybe try removing the graphics card, installing everything from scratch, then puting it in.... just try it in baby steps?>wil<   