Re: Video card just stopped working

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Thank you for the response.

Windows XP is on the same drive as Vista, different partitions.

The BIOS is set correctly

As I said, per Nvidia's suggestion I have tried several drivers from newest,
to much older (version 175.19, 175.16, 174.74, 100.65) each time using driver
cleaning software recommended by Nvidia.

When it has the Nvidia drivers installed, it reports they are from Nvida,
not Microsoft, of course this can only be seen with the card disabled, or in
safe mode.

"Curious" wrote:

I suggest
Shutdown and disconnect the drive with XP on it.
Boot into your BIOS and be sure that it is set to use your graphics card for
primary graphics.
Boot into safe mode and insure that the latest Vista drivers for your 6600GT
card from the Nvidia website are installed.
Boot in normal mode and if problems use device manager to insure that you
are not using Vista default drivers.
"GeekSr" <GeekSr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My system is a Dual boot XP Pro SP3 and Vista Ultimate SP1. Intel 965
chipset, E6700 CPU, 2GB RAM, Lightscribe DVD-RW, with multiple hard drives
and multiple partitions. I was running a Geforce 6600GT 128M PCIe video
card.

Last week I was working in XP, and when I booted back to Vista, the
monitor
reports no signal. It gives me the boot up screen with the scrolling bar,
then goes black when the GUI starts to load. I can hear the boot sounds,
I
know it is running, but no video signal. I shut it down and booted into
XP,
where it worked fine. I went back into Vista, safe mode and disabled the
video card, now it booots up and runs. I contacted Nvidia, who had me
update
drivers, and then try several older drivers, but the problem still exists.
I
put in a new video card, a Geforce 8600GT 1GB PCIe, but the problem is the
same. Through all of this the system boots and runs fine in XP, and it
runs
OK in Vista using the standard VGA driver (just no hardware acceleration,
and
no Aero).

During this process I found out that dual booting with XP deletes all of
the
previous restore points, so I can't go back. I did try uninstalling all
of
the recent updates on the system, and then reapplying the drivers, but
still
no help.

I really don't want to have to reload Vista...AGAIN...Any suggestions?

.

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