[juliegreen]

I HAVE MANAGED TO INSTALL VISTA DOWNLOAD ALL THE AVAILABLE UPDATES ETC AND IT ALL RUNS FAIRLY WELL. THE ONBOARD GRAPHICS HOWEVER ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO RUN AERO OR GAMES. I HAVE INSTALLED ASUS GEFORCE EN7300GS TO OVERCOME THIS PROBLEM USING THE PCI-E SLOT ON MY MOTHERBOARD. THE ONBOARD GRAPHICS ARE NOT SHOWING IN THE BIOS AND THE PCI-E IS THE PRIMARY. THE GRAPHICS CARD IS LISTED IN DEVICE MANAGER AND THE DRIVERS INSTALLED. HOWEVER MY SYSTEM IS NOW RANDOMLY CRASHING VARIOUS MEMORY MESSAGES. IF I TAKE THE CARD OUT IT IS OK. I RUN WINDOWS MEMORY DIAGNOSTICS TOOL AND IT DETECTED HARDWARE PROBLEMS AND ERROR CODE Oxc0000017 WAS DISPLAYED.

THE GRAPHICS CARD IS BRAND NEW SO I AM HOPING IT IS NOT FAULTY AND IT IS SOMETHING I AM DOING.

ANY ADVISE WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

[alwrmc]

Please provide your system specs. Motherboard, CPU, Memory, etc (see my signatue for an example).
Also please note that while I have no problem with it, lots of other people will for some reason take offense at using all capital letters to post.

[davehc]

Have you turned off your on board video in the bios?
Also check, whilst in the Bios, if there is an option to select the PCI slot.

[juliegreen]

Asus P5VD2-VM
Intel Dual Core E6320
2 GB Corsair DDR2 memory
Windows Vista Home Premium
Pioneer DVD RW
Acer Monitor
Asus Geforce EN7300GS 256mb
Onboard sound

When I try to install vista with the graphic card installed it cannot complete vista installation. I therefore installed vista using the onboard graphics. Vista gave the computer a rating of 1 because of the onboard graphics. I disabled the onboard graphics through device manager, powered down the machine, installed the new graphics card and booted the machine up. I checked the BIOS advance tab and VGA share memory size tab had disappeared. The primary display adapter stated pci-e. After logging into Vista I installed the drivers supplied with the graphics card suitable for Vista OS. This all installed but when I tried to refresh the computer rating it couldn't complete.

Sorry about the capitals!

[Rich-M]

Rather than use what came with the card as that is not a new model, I would download and install the newest driver.
Go here and put in Geforce 7 series and then download the newest driver...
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

[rainforest123]

In addition to Rich-M's excellent suggestion, download the latest DirectX that your card will handle. Your video card will not handle DirectX 10. For DirectX 10, you will need an 8000 series graphics card.

You need DirectX 10 to completely enjoy Vista's video experience.

Your comment about not being able to install Vista with the PCI - Ex card in place is not unusual.

I installed Vista pre-release on a computer with an ASUS M2N - E motherboard, AMD 4200+ processor & XFX 7600GS video card, no problem. Also, I upgrade to Vista Business from XP Pro, same hardware, no problem.

RF123

[juliegreen]

Update: I have uninstalled all the graphic card drivers, taken the card out, Booted up using the onboard graphics and updated the BIOS. I then downloaded DirectX 9.0c and reran the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool. This time it completed with no problems. I then put the card back into the pci-e slot, powered up and went directly to the Nividia site to install the latest driver. This all completed fine. I updated the Windows Experience Index and it has refreshed the graphics to 3 (what I expected). The system seems completely stable at the moment.

JG

[davehc]

3.0 is a bit low but not too bad if you are not an internet game player.
There is no requirement for Directx 9c in Vista. 10 is backward compatible but there is a shortcut version of 9c sitting in the background by default.

[Rich-M]

Great news why not mark this "Solved" by using "Thread Tools" at the top.