Nvidia graphics driver bug

> /formerprof/ said:

>> The nVidia graphics driver (96.86) distributed with Vista 32 RTM works
>> properly on my system. The driver released yesterday (97.46) as well as
>> the
>> "RC2" driver (96.85) which was on nVidia's web site until yesterday both
>> fail when I resume from monitor "power-down." The power to the monitor
>> is
>> restored, but the screen shows nothing but a light blue color with thin
>> white diagonal lines. It's impossible to recover from this condition and
>> a
>> reboot is required. CTRL-ALT-DEL changes the color to light green.
>>
>> This problem is recorded in the system log with five instances of this
>> error message: "IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device
>> in
>> PCI slot 22, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for technical
>> assistance" Each instance lists a different PCI slot.
>>
>> Hardware: ASUS A32SLI-Deluxe motherboard, XFX 7900GT graphics card, AMD
>> 4800+ dual core 64-bit processor. I have installed the latest BIOS
>> (1303). I've
>> had no trouble with XP or Linux, both 32 and 64-bit versions.
>>
>> I'll appreciate any help - and if anyone has a direct pipeline to
>> Microsoft
>> or nVidia I'd appreciate having this bug passed on. I reported it to
>> Microsoft verbally about ten days ago, but the report seems to have gone
>> to
>> the bit bucket in the sky.

>
> Perhaps your best bet on something of that nature...
> http://forums.nvidia.com/

> Supposedly info on drivers *is automatically passed on to MSFT via WER
> (Windows Error Reporting) so you've been there and done that.
>
> Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition
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>
> Missing Drivers in Windows Vista
> Microsoft's collecting much more information about device drivers than you
> might think. Did you know that when Vista tries to install a driver, and
> it can't find one (either out of the box or online), your Vista computer
> will generate Windows Error Reporting error? It then submits that error
> report to Microsoft. Microsoft can then prioritize how they interact with
> device vendors based on real-world usability, and get the driver on
> Windows Update. So if 10,000 users have some obscure piece of hardware,
> Microsoft can make sure those users get the best experience possible.
> Cool, huh?"
>
> CH
>
>
>
> "dev" <dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
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>> /formerprof/ said:

>>> The nVidia graphics driver (96.86) distributed with Vista 32 RTM works
>>> properly on my system. The driver released yesterday (97.46) as well as
>>> the
>>> "RC2" driver (96.85) which was on nVidia's web site until yesterday both
>>> fail when I resume from monitor "power-down." The power to the monitor
>>> is
>>> restored, but the screen shows nothing but a light blue color with thin
>>> white diagonal lines. It's impossible to recover from this condition and
>>> a
>>> reboot is required. CTRL-ALT-DEL changes the color to light green.
>>>
>>> This problem is recorded in the system log with five instances of this
>>> error message: "IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device
>>> in
>>> PCI slot 22, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for technical
>>> assistance" Each instance lists a different PCI slot.
>>>
>>> Hardware: ASUS A32SLI-Deluxe motherboard, XFX 7900GT graphics card, AMD
>>> 4800+ dual core 64-bit processor. I have installed the latest BIOS
>>> (1303). I've
>>> had no trouble with XP or Linux, both 32 and 64-bit versions.
>>>
>>> I'll appreciate any help - and if anyone has a direct pipeline to
>>> Microsoft
>>> or nVidia I'd appreciate having this bug passed on. I reported it to
>>> Microsoft verbally about ten days ago, but the report seems to have gone
>>> to
>>> the bit bucket in the sky.

>>
>> Perhaps your best bet on something of that nature...
>> http://forums.nvidia.com/

>

>
> This problem is recorded in the system log with five instances of this
> error message: "IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device
> in PCI slot 22, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for
> technical assistance" Each instance lists a different PCI slot.
>
> Hardware: ASUS A32SLI-Deluxe motherboard, XFX 7900GT graphics card, AMD
> 4800+ dual core 64-bit processor. I have installed the latest BIOS
> (1303). I've had no trouble with XP or Linux, both 32 and 64-bit versions.
>

> formerprof schrieb:

>>
>> This problem is recorded in the system log with five instances of this
>> error message: "IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device
>> in PCI slot 22, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for
>> technical assistance" Each instance lists a different PCI slot.
>>
>> Hardware: ASUS A32SLI-Deluxe motherboard, XFX 7900GT graphics card, AMD
>> 4800+ dual core 64-bit processor. I have installed the latest BIOS
>> (1303). I've had no trouble with XP or Linux, both 32 and 64-bit
>> versions.
>>

> Hello formerprof,
>
> if there was a bug in the mentioned drivers concerning power management,
> there would be much more problems of this kind. I suppose that the problem
> lies - as mentioned in the log - in the bios of the mainboard or the
> graphics card. Since Windows 98, Microsoft's demands on the correct
> funtion of the BIOS and the ACPI-tables have risen continually, and
> PM-failures have been the most common failures from bugs in the BIOS.
>
> Speaking of myself, I have just needed to update the BIOS on my MSI-K9N
> for PM to work properly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Detlev