Question: Hello everyone. Been fiddling with Vista on two machines. They have Home Basic and is fine. The other has a weird issue I detailed below after listing of the specs. All drivers and what not are updated.
Vista Home Premium 64 bit
DFI NF3 250-AL board
3400 Newcastle s754 + Crucial PC3200 @ stock 2400mhz
2×512 DDR
Visiontek Radon 1950Pro
2xWD drives
Creative 80GB Audigy 2 Monitor Value
Viewsonic 17
The question is this . everything is in order at shutdown or restart a process using the button on the case to restart. But when I actually reboot command run from Windows, it seems to act as normally closed, but when the monitor seems to lose signal. The hard drive activity light is about 5 seconds or so and then nothinng. I can nothing but restart button or press the power button, then it works fine. Even doing CTRL-ALT-DEL does nothing once in this state. This system worked fine for almost 3 years with win2k and XP, and I have absolutely no problems with my other setup (Chaintech 7NIL-1, Barton 2500, GF4ti4200, Vista Home Basic, etc.). BIOS settings all seem OK, Ive tried two different installations on two hard drives and power supply is an Antec 550.
Any ideas? Everything is updated.
Please help!
Thanks!
Re:Have you tried a different monitor? Or is the other PC using the same one?
Re:OK, I tried a few different things.
Tried switching the video card from the other system (a geforce 4 ti4200). Same issue.
Tried unplugging all peripherals (had only kb/mouse/video/RAM). Same issue.
Tried installing vista basic. Same issue.
What can it be?
Re:Thank you for the reply and suggestion, Hermdogg. I've tried both the auto driver update from within control panel, as well as the latest drivers from ATI's site. I tried installing the ones from the CD that came with the card (which worked awesome with XP) but they won't install…the whole vista 64 bit signature thing. I'm stumped!!! Stupid 64 bit vista!!
HELP!!!
Re:I'm assuming it would be a video drivers issue. When you do the restart command, it assumes the system shut down just fine. When you have to hard restart, it reverts back to the previous config that worked. I had the same problem when I switched my laptop over to Vista awhile ago. The ATi drivers included with the DVD worked, but when I updated the drivers (through Windows update and ATi's site) I wouldn't get any video until I got it back. Try booting into safe mode and rolling back the drivers to the ones on the disk. If that works, I wouldn't update your drivers until the next rollout. Try it and let us know
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