vista disabled my graphics card

Hello all!
I have recently installed Windows Vista Beta 2 on my Toshiba laptop only to find that Vista has disabled the graphics card due to an error detected.
I have an ATI Radeon 9600/9700 series graphics card, which Vista tells me is 64mb. I know that Vista would like me to have a 128mb graphics card, but I really don't want to fiddle around with installing a new one ( I don't even know if I can if it is built in).
I see no reason why Vista should stop the graphics card from working as now it prevents me from watching DVD's and the overall visual quality is decreased ( as you can imagine). Vista tells me that the graphics card is experiencing code 43. I have installed the latest drivers from ATI and it still doesn't work.
I would really appreciate any ideas or comments
Thanks very much.
RJardine

I had a similar problem. I have a radeon All-In-Wonder X800 XT. I had to go to the ATI site to get the newest Radeon drivers, but unfortunately, it shut off my FM radio, my ATI DVD and File player, and most improtantly, my TV tuner.
When i submitted a ticket to ATI they said Vista is Beta, and their Vista drivers are Beta and they will not release any multimedia center drivers till Vista ships as a production OS. Swell eh? i told them that is why my next card will be made by nVidia.
You maybe able to find a Vista beta driver at ATI, but you may have the same problems as I. Good Luck
Jeff
-- Is this a beer I see before me, the bottle toward my hand? Come let me drink thee. I have thee not and yet I taste thee still. Art thou not, tasty vision, sensible to tastebuds as to sight? Shakesbeer
"RJardine" wrote:

Hello all!
I have recently installed Windows Vista Beta 2 on my Toshiba laptop only to find that Vista has disabled the graphics card due to an error detected.
I have an ATI Radeon 9600/9700 series graphics card, which Vista tells me is 64mb. I know that Vista would like me to have a 128mb graphics card, but I really don't want to fiddle around with installing a new one ( I don't even know if I can if it is built in).
I see no reason why Vista should stop the graphics card from working as now it prevents me from watching DVD's and the overall visual quality is decreased ( as you can imagine). Vista tells me that the graphics card is experiencing code 43. I have installed the latest drivers from ATI and it still doesn't work.
I would really appreciate any ideas or comments
Thanks very much.
RJardine

What did you expect?
Oh, and which nVidia graphics card with integrated TV tuner are you planning on buying (since they don't make one).
The ATI TV tuner/graphics cards are mediocre software based TV tuners.
Get a real tuner :)
Tom "Whitelitr" wrote in message

I had a similar problem. I have a radeon All-In-Wonder X800 XT. I had to go to the ATI site to get the newest Radeon drivers, but unfortunately, it shut off my FM radio, my ATI DVD and File player, and most improtantly, my TV tuner.
When i submitted a ticket to ATI they said Vista is Beta, and their Vista drivers are Beta and they will not release any multimedia center drivers till Vista ships as a production OS. Swell eh? i told them that is why my next card will be made by nVidia.
You maybe able to find a Vista beta driver at ATI, but you may have the same problems as I. Good Luck
Jeff
-- Is this a beer I see before me, the bottle toward my hand? Come let me drink thee. I have thee not and yet I taste thee still. Art thou not, tasty vision, sensible to tastebuds as to sight? Shakesbeer
"RJardine" wrote:
Hello all!
I have recently installed Windows Vista Beta 2 on my Toshiba laptop only to find that Vista has disabled the graphics card due to an error detected.
I have an ATI Radeon 9600/9700 series graphics card, which Vista tells me is 64mb. I know that Vista would like me to have a 128mb graphics card, but I really don't want to fiddle around with installing a new one ( I don't even know if I can if it is built in).
I see no reason why Vista should stop the graphics card from working as now it prevents me from watching DVD's and the overall visual quality is decreased ( as you can imagine). Vista tells me that the graphics card is experiencing code 43. I have installed the latest drivers from ATI and it still doesn't work.
I would really appreciate any ideas or comments
Thanks very much.
RJardine

Well, I have to admit, price and function were major factors. I am sharing a small apt with a freind of mine...space is at a premuim. My entire media center is basically what i can fit on my already overloaded and overstacked Wal-Mart desk. I bout the All in Wonder specifically because it incororated TV , FM, music playing capability while still being decnt enough for my online gaming (Call of Duty..which i also can not play right now.) Since I can hardly wait till early next year for Vista to ship and ATI to release real drivers, I am probably going to go back to XP.....dammit >:~( ....cuz I really like Vista otherwise.
Jeff
-- Is this a beer I see before me, the bottle toward my hand? Come let me drink thee. I have thee not and yet I taste thee still. Art thou not, tasty vision, sensible to tastebuds as to sight? Shakesbeer
"Tom Scales" wrote:

What did you expect?
Oh, and which nVidia graphics card with integrated TV tuner are you planning on buying (since they don't make one).
The ATI TV tuner/graphics cards are mediocre software based TV tuners.
Get a real tuner :)
Tom "Whitelitr" wrote in message I had a similar problem. I have a radeon All-In-Wonder X800 XT. I had to go to the ATI site to get the newest Radeon drivers, but unfortunately, it shut off my FM radio, my ATI DVD and File player, and most improtantly, my TV tuner.
When i submitted a ticket to ATI they said Vista is Beta, and their Vista drivers are Beta and they will not release any multimedia center drivers till Vista ships as a production OS. Swell eh? i told them that is why my next card will be made by nVidia.
You maybe able to find a Vista beta driver at ATI, but you may have the same problems as I. Good Luck
Jeff
-- Is this a beer I see before me, the bottle toward my hand? Come let me drink thee. I have thee not and yet I taste thee still. Art thou not, tasty vision, sensible to tastebuds as to sight? Shakesbeer
"RJardine" wrote:
Hello all!
I have recently installed Windows Vista Beta 2 on my Toshiba laptop only to find that Vista has disabled the graphics card due to an error detected.
I have an ATI Radeon 9600/9700 series graphics card, which Vista tells me is 64mb. I know that Vista would like me to have a 128mb graphics card, but I really don't want to fiddle around with installing a new one ( I don't even know if I can if it is built in).
I see no reason why Vista should stop the graphics card from working as now it prevents me from watching DVD's and the overall visual quality is decreased ( as you can imagine). Vista tells me that the graphics card is experiencing code 43. I have installed the latest drivers from ATI and it still doesn't work.
I would really appreciate any ideas or comments
Thanks very much.
RJardine