Below is a copy from 3d forum. I have been having nothing but trouble with the HP (s) I bought this year. Am now on my second replacment computer. HP is thinking it is a problems with a particular video card & a particular Vista version.
Anybody have any ideas?
Do they have the power drivers for Vista/Win7, and does it make as significant a difference there?
I've been using a GeForce PCIe2 card with 1GB DDR3 RAM on my Vista 64 system, and it seems to behave as well as my Quadro FX1500 on Windows XP 32-bit. Meaning that it performs well, handles 3D-orbits decently, and seems to pretty seamlessly do everything I want. I don't have a 64-bit system with a Quadro to compare, but performance with my GeForce is good enough that it makes me wonder if I would want to spend any more on a graphics card.
Now with our 32-bit XP systems, we definitely were getting better results with the Quadro cards. But it seems like, even there, things have been changing over the years. C3D 2008 on a GeForce with the drivers from 2007 often had problems. C3D 2009 on a GeForce with the latest-and-greatest driver seems to work better.
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AllenJessup
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Re: PC requirements
Posted: Sep 25, 2009 11:04 AM in response to: dei-feif Reply
I don't know. We're still poking along on XP and don't see any change coming in the near future.
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annw2
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Re: PC requirements
Posted: Sep 28, 2009 4:54 PM in response to: fallright Reply
I am now on my 3rd computer at home this year. The first 2 kept locking up. HP is thinking, but can't confirm, Vista Ultimate doesn't like the particular NVidia card I bought. I haven't seen any other mention of this & when I asked here, no one confirmed.
dei-feif
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Re: PC requirements
Posted: Sep 28, 2009 6:05 PM in response to: annw2 Reply
I have not yet been able to track any problems back to a conflict with nVidia cards and Vista. I've had my Vista x64 machine for almost a year now, and I don't think I've ever seen it blue-screen.
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annw2
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Re: PC requirements
Posted: Sep 29, 2009 8:07 AM in response to: dei-feif Reply
Are you running Vista Ultimate? HP was thinking it was the Vista Ultimate with a particular Vista update and the one particular card. I don't speak hardware or operating systems and the card is now packed up waiting to be shipped back to HP. I may be able to find the card listed in the shipping manifest when I go home. If it becomes important enough to anyone, I could put the system back to gether and try to look up.
HP had suggested being very careful about which Windows update to install.
I really don't know if that was the problem or HP was feeding me a line. All I know is that I am getting tired of dealing with freezing computers.
Let me know if you do a windows update and your computer starts freezing.
dei-feif
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Re: PC requirements
Posted: Sep 29, 2009 8:27 AM in response to: annw2 Reply
What card are you talking about?
I know I had a problem with an optional update Microsoft pushed out for nVidia cards (publish date 8/13/2009). After I installed it, my whole setup went haywire. I did a system restore and everything went back to normal. So that update is still sitting in Windows Update in my list of uninstalled optional updates.
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annw2
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Re: PC requirements
Posted: Sep 29, 2009 11:24 AM in response to: dei-feif Edit Reply
OK. I dug old computer out of box & plugged it in long enough to write down settings. I think I have this correct. Someone who speaks hardware & operating systems can correct me.
Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP1. Direct Xversion 10.0
NVidia GeForce 9600GS Driver Version 178.69 48 Stream Processes Core clock 500 MHz Memory clock 500 MHz 1000 Mh shared?
192 bit Memory Interface
2560 MB Total Av Group
768 MB Dedicated Video
System 0
Shared 1792 MB
Video Bios 62.94.20.00.14
IRQ 16
Bus PCI Express x16 Gen 2
I tried making sense of Windows updates. I saw lots of security. One for Silverlight (?) at the beginning of the month. I didn't go much before that as I remember it being about the beginning of September when I started getting crashes about every other day. Hopefully this will make sense to someone. Hardware forum?
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