VISTA Screen Corruption Again

Dyre Straits · Oct 26, 2006, 09:09 AM

It's been maybe a week since I started up VISTA and now, no matter what I do, I get a really bad corrupted screen when it boots to the Desktop.

I tried booting into Safemode and that hangs at the diskchk...whatever the name of the file is....and it sat there for ten minutes before I decided to just forget about it and go back to XP.

Looks like I'll be doing a reinstall in the next few days.

Hapatingjaky · Oct 26, 2006, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

It's been maybe a week since I started up VISTA and now, no matter what I do, I get a really bad corrupted screen when it boots to the Desktop.

I tried booting into Safemode and that hangs at the diskchk...whatever the name of the file is....and it sat there for ten minutes before I decided to just forget about it and go back to XP.

Looks like I'll be doing a reinstall in the next few days.

I gave up on Vista, I'll await proper driver releases before I dive back into the horror known as Vista.

blackdog · Oct 31, 2006, 03:11 AM

Yeah I find it a real bitch to test an OS when the drivers aren't able to run yet in order to test, they are beta...understood, Question is if we aren't supposed to use the RC1 drivers on RC2 then when do we get RC2 drivers, according to the (old) ATI site they were to be released shortly. Not too sure about this AMD/ATI deal......may be forced to Nvidia for cards if what I read on certain sites is correct.....hope not

Dyre Straits · Nov 2, 2006, 07:20 AM

I was finally able to get into Vista Safemode and remove the drivers. I had to do a full HDD CHKDSK function first, though.

I likely won't be doing a whole lot more on the VISTA system until there are better drivers for RC2.

Dyre Straits · Nov 3, 2006, 10:29 AM

Well, ATI must have read my post.

Anyway, since they released some newer Vista drivers I decided to give them a whirl.

Seems VISTA has some nuances that need to be addressed. I was installing (I thought) the newer drivers and instead VISTA grabbed the older drivers. Ended up with the same corrupted screen as before. So, had to go back into Safemode again, remove/uninstall everything...including the directory for ATi and ATI Technologies.

Finally, I got a good installation and am using VISTA at the moment.

Will have to give it a workout when I have more time.

blackdog · Nov 3, 2006, 05:11 PM

Newest RC2 drivers working good on all cards although opengl is still a mystery

Lelisevis · Nov 4, 2006, 01:03 AM

Ive grown very discouraged by Vista despite singing it's praises on release. It seems to take twice as long to do the most common tasks even if it's just rearranging my desktop. I have still to find a driver set that doesnt cause corruption in games with my sig spec. Im tired of the constant hand holding, it would be nice if it could 'learn' for want of a better word how competant a user is for example if your doing things like accessing system files etc on a regular basis chances are your a pretty advanced user. Oh and no matter what I try it will not allw me to access my U3 USB key.

On a final note and I hate being such a downer I have had quite a few blue screens of death, I wish I had a screenshot of the comical helpfile. It scans your system then says we are unable to pinpoint the problem but we think it could be your CPU, Harddrive, Motherboard, PSU, RAM........we suggest you backup your system and replace the above. Yeah bollocks, I pinpointed the problem it was Vista downloading updates and doing a system scan at the same time LOL.

I live in hope but for now Xp remains my main OS and Vista is strictly for tinkering with in my spare time as it should be with a beta. It's getting worryingly close to RTM though Gulp.

Hapatingjaky · Nov 4, 2006, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Lelisevis

Ive grown very discouraged by Vista despite singing it's praises on release. It seems to take twice as long to do the most common tasks even if it's just rearranging my desktop. I have still to find a driver set that doesnt cause corruption in games with my sig spec. Im tired of the constant hand holding, it would be nice if it could 'learn' for want of a better word how competant a user is for example if your doing things like accessing system files etc on a regular basis chances are your a pretty advanced user. Oh and no matter what I try it will not allw me to access my U3 USB key.

On a final note and I hate being such a downer I have had quite a few blue screens of death, I wish I had a screenshot of the comical helpfile. It scans your system then says we are unable to pinpoint the problem but we think it could be your CPU, Harddrive, Motherboard, PSU, RAM........we suggest you backup your system and replace the above. Yeah bollocks, I pinpointed the problem it was Vista downloading updates and doing a system scan at the same time LOL.

I live in hope but for now Xp remains my main OS and Vista is strictly for tinkering with in my spare time as it should be with a beta. It's getting worryingly close to RTM though Gulp.

I talked myself out of low leveling and giving vista a try again today. Reading the Creative forums there still seems to be a lacking of proper support for the XFI lineup. This is the only thing holding me back from installing Vista again... My thoughts sicne Microsoft has dramticaly changed the way WIndows Audio is controled that Creative might be releasing a newer soundcard to replace the XFI line in either December or January.

The ATI drivers have matured but still Nvidia out paces them by a mile, Nvidia has proper OpenGL support, SLI support and first the board with WHQL ( although we know this is BS to begine with, who cares if Microsoft certifies your driver or not ).

Last issue, HDD corruption. I keep reading alot of issues regaurding hard drive corruption as in Dyre's case. I notice with Vista installed my system hangs at the hard drive detection screen for my raid 0 and the hard drives actually spin up for some reason, this also occurs on my notebook running Vista 32bit. Alot of my lackies are reporting missing files after a week of running Vista and or deleted drivers or unable to load into Windows...

PangingJr · Nov 5, 2006, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Hapatingjaky

Last issue, HDD corruption. I keep reading alot of issues regaurding hard drive corruption as in Dyre's case. I notice with Vista installed my system hangs at the hard drive detection screen for my raid 0 and the hard drives actually spin up for some reason, this also occurs on my notebook running Vista 32bit. Alot of my lackies are reporting missing files after a week of running Vista and or deleted drivers or unable to load into Windows...

i've never experienced such a problem, not a single missing or corrupted file problem that i've experienced with since Vista beta 2 up to RC2.
and have no idea why that happened to you or other users that you mentioned. anyway, are you sure the problems actually exists in the Vista itself?

Hapatingjaky · Nov 5, 2006, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by PangingJr

i've never experienced such a problem, not a single missing or corrupted file problem that i've experienced with since Vista beta 2 up to RC2.
and have no idea why that happened to you or other users that you mentioned. anyway, are you sure the problems actually exists in the Vista itself?

The issue is up on the Vista News Groups, the solution, disable indexing. Although searching will be slower atleast your hard drive isn't scanning all the time anymore...

PangingJr · Nov 5, 2006, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Hapatingjaky

The issue is up on the Vista News Groups, the solution, disable indexing. Although searching will be slower atleast your hard drive isn't scanning all the time anymore...

you mean when the file indexing service is enabled in Vista, it can cause disk corruption and missing files?
could you provide link to the newsgroups that discussed about this?

Oct 31, 2006, 03:11 AM	#3
blackdog HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Frozen North of 49 Posts: 104 Rep Power: 0	Yeah I find it a real bitch to test an OS when the drivers aren't able to run yet in order to test, they are beta...understood, Question is if we aren't supposed to use the RC1 drivers on RC2 then when do we get RC2 drivers, according to the (old) ATI site they were to be released shortly. Not too sure about this AMD/ATI deal......may be forced to Nvidia for cards if what I read on certain sites is correct.....hope not

Nov 3, 2006, 05:11 PM	#6
blackdog HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Frozen North of 49 Posts: 104 Rep Power: 0	Newest RC2 drivers working good on all cards although opengl is still a mystery

Nov 4, 2006, 01:03 AM	#7
Lelisevis Howlin at the moon Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,663 Rep Power: 0	Ive grown very discouraged by Vista despite singing it's praises on release. It seems to take twice as long to do the most common tasks even if it's just rearranging my desktop. I have still to find a driver set that doesnt cause corruption in games with my sig spec. Im tired of the constant hand holding, it would be nice if it could 'learn' for want of a better word how competant a user is for example if your doing things like accessing system files etc on a regular basis chances are your a pretty advanced user. Oh and no matter what I try it will not allw me to access my U3 USB key. On a final note and I hate being such a downer I have had quite a few blue screens of death, I wish I had a screenshot of the comical helpfile. It scans your system then says we are unable to pinpoint the problem but we think it could be your CPU, Harddrive, Motherboard, PSU, RAM........we suggest you backup your system and replace the above. Yeah bollocks, I pinpointed the problem it was Vista downloading updates and doing a system scan at the same time LOL. I live in hope but for now Xp remains my main OS and Vista is strictly for tinkering with in my spare time as it should be with a beta. It's getting worryingly close to RTM though Gulp.