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Hey MS friends! I'm sorry to bother you guys, but I "think" I'm haveing graphics card issues... >.< I just bought a Saphhire Radeon x1600 PRO (AGP 8x) which worked great in windows XP but when I installed Vista and tried to boot into normal mode, the screen gos black. So then of course, I booted into safe mode and looked around in device manage and saw that my sound card wasn't being recognized (Soundblaster Live! 24bit) so I went to Creative's website and downloaded the driver. The sound card is now recognized in the device manager. So with the sound card off of my list, the thought of the problem being my graphics card crossed my head. So I went to Sapphires website... no vista drivers. Next I went to ATI's website. They had there Catalyst Beta for Vista available so I tried that. It didn't help anything but I noticed under the device manager, the graphics card was still running off of the MS Driver (NOT ATI'S DRIVER)... So I'm a little confused on the problem. If anybody could point me towards a working driver, or fix to whatever the problem is, that would be nice. =D
-Jon

Definitely a driver issue. Try Windows update for drivers for that card.
"Jon" wrote:

Hey MS friends! I'm sorry to bother you guys, but I "think" I'm haveing graphics card issues... >.< I just bought a Saphhire Radeon x1600 PRO (AGP 8x) which worked great in windows XP but when I installed Vista and tried to boot into normal mode, the screen gos black. So then of course, I booted into safe mode and looked around in device manage and saw that my sound card wasn't being recognized (Soundblaster Live! 24bit) so I went to Creative's website and downloaded the driver. The sound card is now recognized in the device manager. So with the sound card off of my list, the thought of the problem being my graphics card crossed my head. So I went to Sapphires website... no vista drivers. Next I went to ATI's website. They had there Catalyst Beta for Vista available so I tried that. It didn't help anything but I noticed under the device manager, the graphics card was still running off of the MS Driver (NOT ATI'S DRIVER)... So I'm a little confused on the problem. If anybody could point me towards a working driver, or fix to whatever the problem is, that would be nice. =D
-Jon