[croc]

NVIDIA - system - nForce4 PCI-Express Root Port

This is an optional update. I've been trying to get rid of some NVIDIA gpu issues, (only seeing 256 MB ram on a 6800 Ultra, no SLI, etc.) so I installed it. It caused system to black screen and then.... Nada. Patiently waited for quite a while (an hour or so) because there was still some drive activity. Rebooted system. blue-grey screen, mouse active, but nada. Waited quite a while, then rebooted into safe mode and did a system restore.

Two days later, I repeated the process as it was now a recommended optional install. Deja' Vu all over again. I then looked into installed updates, and there are now two of these optional updates happily installed. I can't remove them.

KB article is non-existant, help is not ready for prime time yet...


Any clues?

[fizban2]

optional update through windows update? anyway to find what files it loaded?

[croc]

fizban2, on Jul 10 2006, 12:32 PM, said:

optional update through windows update? anyway to find what files it loaded?

Possibly... If I can get back in in safe mode.

What do I look for and where?

Edit:

I did a before / after search on today's date. The setupapi.app.log is interesting. It suggested that this app actually installed sucessfully. So I re-booted again, and voila! System came up, I managed to get out of the pale blue screen by doing an escape, and on the second re-boot everything seems normal. Plus I now have 4 nforce4 PCI-Express Root Port devices same as XP. So all is now good. So if I could only enable SLI...


Thanks for the suggestion. I would've just done a rollback if you hadn't.

This post has been edited by croc: 10 July 2006 - 04:31 AM

[fizban2]

no problem

just glad it worked, vista is hard to trouble shoot since most drivers are still written for XP and very few drivers act the same in vista in XP, it is just a matter of messing with it till it works (possibly with a sharp instrument) SLI may not working under Vista yet, if you getting it working please post, i haven't heard of anyone getting it working yet. i only have one vid card so i cannot try that yet

[croc]

fizban2, on Jul 10 2006, 11:09 PM, said:

no problem

just glad it worked, vista is hard to trouble shoot since most drivers are still written for XP and very few drivers act the same in vista in XP, it is just a matter of messing with it till it works (possibly with a sharp instrument) SLI may not working under Vista yet, if you getting it working please post, i haven't heard of anyone getting it working yet. i only have one vid card so i cannot try that yet

Read the 88.61 release notes in the section 'not NVIDIA's problem...

according to Nvidia, this is a MS vidio codec issue. I suppose I'll get an update some day, and I'll be able to enable it.