ATI X1600 AGP 512MB - blue screen during setup (driver in infinite loop)

> Colin Nash [MVP] wrote:
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> > I tried some RC2 builds too and they had the same problem with this
> > card during setup.
> >
> > 32bit version of Vista on a Asus P4P800E motherboard, for the record.
> >
> > Anyway, anyone else seen this?

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> Negatory. Worked ok for me with an X1800 PCIe on an ABIT ab9. Some oddity of
> the install disk drivers and the PCIe bridge chip on your card to make it
> talk to AGP? Sounds like just the thing that might get missed in a test, not
> to mention precisely the sort of thing that wouldn't be an issue for an X800
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> Anyone had any success with the ATI X1600 AGP 512MB video card? Tried
> several times and always got a blue screen with this card during setup,
> saying driver stuck in infinite loop. The only way I was able to get
> Vista installed was to slap in another video card (ATI X800... older but
> better card, but partially fried due to a fan failure and doesn't work for
> 3d games anymore), install the newer ATI Catalyst drivers (8.31.100.0) to
> get through setup and initial configuration, and then slap the X1600 back
> in afterwards, which luckily uses the same driver. Works perfectly now
> that I made it through setup, presumably because of the newer driver.
> It's almost as if the driver on the Vista DVD can't handle this card, but
> insists on trying to. I suppose I could also have figured out how to tell
> setup to just use a default VGA driver instead of it's built-in ATI
> driver.
>
> I tried some RC2 builds too and they had the same problem with this card
> during setup.
>
> 32bit version of Vista on a Asus P4P800E motherboard, for the record.
>
> Anyway, anyone else seen this?
>
>
> --
> Colin Nash
> Microsoft MVP (www.microsoft.com/mvp)
> Windows - Shell/User
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