X1950 Pro and Vista Head Ache!

BillUp · Oct 5, 2007, 08:53 PM

Hi all, I have had a HIS Radeon X1950 Pro IceQ3 Turbo 512mb AGP for about 3 weeks now and I have never been able to get it to run on Windows Vista Home Premium on my PC. It was always BSODing or freezing or "your driver has failed and recoverd" syndrome in every game and just browsing the web etc etc.. I have XP Pro and Vista dual booting on the same PC and the X1950 was faultless in XP pro, no problems at all. I tried 7 Catalyst versions within Vista and all BSOD'd. I spoke to HIS and they said RMA the card as it was probably a fault with that. So I unplug the X1950 and put in my old 9600XT. Without even changing the drivers the 9600 was recognised by Vista, updated itself and ran like a dream (well not really a dream but I was chuufed to know Vista was fine on my PC). The X1950 card should have been picked up today but was not until Monday so I put my X1950 pro back in the PC and moved the Monitor plug over to the other output on the 1950 and would'nt you know it, it works spot on now, no BSOD's or freezes. All my games play fine (FSX being my game of choice).

What would your thoughts be on this?? The card crashed all the time, I put the 9600XT in and that worked fine so I put the X1950 pro back in and now that works fine

The card was seated properly in the AGP slot and the only change I made was to move the Monitor over to the left output on the X1950.

Ive been scratching my head all day over this, I am still going to get a replacement but I am worried if I take it out again it will happen all over.

Any advice would be great, thank you very much!!

Oct 5, 2007, 08:53 PM	#1
BillUp DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Maidenhead Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	X1950 Pro and Vista Head Ache! Hi all, I have had a HIS Radeon X1950 Pro IceQ3 Turbo 512mb AGP for about 3 weeks now and I have never been able to get it to run on Windows Vista Home Premium on my PC. It was always BSODing or freezing or "your driver has failed and recoverd" syndrome in every game and just browsing the web etc etc.. I have XP Pro and Vista dual booting on the same PC and the X1950 was faultless in XP pro, no problems at all. I tried 7 Catalyst versions within Vista and all BSOD'd. I spoke to HIS and they said RMA the card as it was probably a fault with that. So I unplug the X1950 and put in my old 9600XT. Without even changing the drivers the 9600 was recognised by Vista, updated itself and ran like a dream (well not really a dream but I was chuufed to know Vista was fine on my PC). The X1950 card should have been picked up today but was not until Monday so I put my X1950 pro back in the PC and moved the Monitor plug over to the other output on the 1950 and would'nt you know it, it works spot on now, no BSOD's or freezes. All my games play fine (FSX being my game of choice). What would your thoughts be on this?? The card crashed all the time, I put the 9600XT in and that worked fine so I put the X1950 pro back in and now that works fine The card was seated properly in the AGP slot and the only change I made was to move the Monitor over to the left output on the X1950. Ive been scratching my head all day over this, I am still going to get a replacement but I am worried if I take it out again it will happen all over. Any advice would be great, thank you very much!!