Installed Vista... Having Problems

**Vakas** · October 8th, 2008, 08:20 AM

I finally installed Vista Ultimate 64. All seems to be good the installation went well.

I then tried installing my VGA drivers as I was not getting the Aero interface they installed and I rebooted once rebooted the system either boots up and then after a few seconds the screen goes blank.

I have had a look on the Nvidia forums and everyone is haibg this program I have the Geforce 8500GT 512MB

Anyone know what is going on or have a solution to this

**Ferrit** · October 8th, 2008, 08:33 AM

Reboot to safe mode, remove the video card from the device manager and then reboot back to regular mode and let it reinstall.
It may be the latest drivers that have done it, or you might need to download the latest and install them

**Vakas** · October 8th, 2008, 08:39 AM

I am curretly using the default windows drivers everytime I try to installed the latest drivers from Nvidia I get a blank screen.

Also without them drivers I cannot use Aero

**Ferrit** · October 8th, 2008, 08:43 AM

Then try using some older drivers

**Vakas** · October 8th, 2008, 08:49 AM

here can I find an older version?

Nearly all nvidia crds use the same driver do you think its a problem with the card and vista

**Ferrit** · October 8th, 2008, 08:54 AM

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
Just select your Gforce 8 series, then 8500GT, then vista64 bit then search

**CeeBee** · October 8th, 2008, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by Vakas

I am curretly using the default windows drivers everytime I try to installed the latest drivers from Nvidia I get a blank screen.

Do you have dual-DVI connectors by any chance and your monitor is connected to the secondary?

**Ferrit** · October 8th, 2008, 11:40 AM

It is not that all nvidia are using nearly the same drivers. It is that sometimes when nvidia releases new drivers they are buggy so we sometimes need to rollback to older versions.

**Vakas** · October 8th, 2008, 06:19 PM

Ihave sorted it.

I formatted and started again, I flashed my motherboard BIOS to the latestversion and then disabled windows updates and installed the latest Nvidia driver and it worked fine.

**NooNoo** · October 9th, 2008, 04:30 AM

OK, but you will want to re-enable windows updates! Just disable/hide the nvidia driver update under hardware... and annoying as it is, DON'T turn off UAC... watching it come up when you are just surfing the web tells you something is trying to install without your permission and if it wasn't for the UAC, it would have installed and you would be none the wiser until of course it fell over...

**Vakas** · October 9th, 2008, 06:51 AM

I have already done all that I have enabled and installed windows updates and UAC is on all is working great

**NooNoo** · October 9th, 2008, 07:00 AM

Glad to hear it!

**Vakas** · October 10th, 2008, 05:38 PM

Which firewall are you guys using?

**Ferrit** · October 10th, 2008, 08:31 PM

None if you mean software.
I use a router

**NooNoo** · October 11th, 2008, 02:56 AM

I use what ever happens to be free
Comodo on a machine that I connect to customers machines
Kids have ZA because it doesn't ask too many questions
But I quite often run with just the router.... it really depends on what your surfing habits are.