GFX Card VS Vista

[jellyrole]

When I ran the program GPU-z, I noticed my EVGA 8800GT was only running at 8x. I looked in the bios for an option to change, but had no luck and remembered that I had to put the card in the second slot of my mother board so that it would fit. I moved my HDD, and put the card in slot #1 and when Vista started, it no longer recognizes that I have an 8800GT, it just shows up as the standard VGA Adapter. GPU-z still shows that I'm using the 8800, but RivaTuner agrees with Vista showing Standard VGA Adapter.

Vista won..I need help in figuring out how to get it to recognize the card as what it is. I tried installing the drivers, but it says that the drivers are only compatible with Vista 32-Bit and thats what I have, but it doesn't think that.

[Miker]

Did you uninstall drivers?

[jellyrole]

Yes, and tried to reinstall, but it gave that these drivers support Vista 32-Bit crap.

[joz]

Use XP?

Vista sucks>

Sounds like either A: the mb is slighlty faulty. or B: The drivers dont like something. or C: ...its vista... most likely its C.

[Miker]

I would just re-set the CMOS, if that doesn't work re-install the OS.

[tyle6]

Driver cleaner pro? make sure you run DC pro!!! then reinstall the drivers. Also you didn't remove the motherboard drivers aswell did you?
I would reset the CMOS too just incase there is some sort of conflict.

[Ranzear]

32 bit is your failing, not Vista.

You don't need DC Pro for Vista for the most part, the OS uninstall is pretty clean as far as I can tell, and newer forceware installations are complete anyway. I install one series (Whole number is same, decimal changed) over another without trouble most of the time.

Download new drivers, uninstall old drivers, ~RESTART~ (above all else restart before you install new drivers or the uninstallation will remove files from the new installation) install new drivers, ???, profit!

Then go buy x64 Vista, you have nothing that doesn't support it.

Why WHY ****ING WHY do people buy 32bit Vista? Anything that can actually run Vista supports 64bit.

And if you bring up software I'm going to beat you with my Itanium bat.

[joz]

32 bit is your failing, not Vista.

You don't need DC Pro for Vista for the most part, the OS uninstall is pretty clean as far as I can tell, and newer forceware installations are complete anyway. I install one series (Whole number is same, decimal changed) over another without trouble most of the time.

Download new drivers, uninstall old drivers, ~RESTART~ (above all else restart before you install new drivers or the uninstallation will remove files from the new installation) install new drivers, ???, profit!

Then go buy x64 Vista, you have nothing that doesn't support it.

Why WHY ****ING WHY do people buy 32bit Vista? Anything that can actually run Vista supports 64bit.

And if you bring up software I'm going to beat you with my Itanium bat.
Couse vista sucks anyway, and he should use XP for its godliness. And less expensiveness.

[timberwolf120]

Don't have much time at the moment. But I tried to do a quick search on google and it gave me results for the Deluxe version.

Anyways, according to Newegg, this mobo runs x8 and x8 in SLI mode. By any chance, is SLI enabled (the setting/option) anywhere in the BIOS or Nvidia Control Panel?

Probably a stupid suggestion, but that was the only thing that came to my mind as to why it might run in x8 mode.

[jellyrole]

I reinstalled OS and it works perfectly now, also I have no need for a budget on software because I pirate whatever I need, so I will be upgrading to 64-Bit when I get a new motherboard and 1066 RAM.

[Ranzear]

:naughty: Using Vista for ten minutes at Best Buy does not make an expert.

Running Vista with only 300mb of memory usage to officially slap those who complain about Vista's memory management does.

Enjoy your DX9 and 2 gig of ram failbag.

[coxmaster]

I personally like Vista.. and i do have Vitsa 64 Bit. It feels fast to me, my games all run at max.. and my 3Dmark is 11k+ so theres no complaint here. Its even good for watching TV with media center. As many other people have said.. vista 64 is a good idea