L.T.W. Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 So before I made the change from XP to Vista ( that I regret) I had to video cards, the one that originally came with the computer and the NVidia I bought. On XP, both worked perfectly, but when I moved to Vista the video card No 1 stopped working and is giving me this problem: This device cannot start. (Code 10) Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available. When I click on the check for solutions button nothing actually happens. How do I solve it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwaltzvald Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Well a quick brief search got me this - http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_13957.html (This is assuming you're referring to your nvidia card giving you issues) Roll back to XP, or replace the video card if it's not compatible or no drivers to make it compatible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 what video cards are they? if you can actually give me a specific name, i can tell you why they did or didn't work. you didn't do something stupid like try to plug both in at the same time, did you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phill Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 what video cards are they? if you can actually give me a specific name, i can tell you why they did or didn't work.you didn't do something stupid like try to plug both in at the same time, did you? I also would like to see what cards he got going on, but why is having them both plugged in a bad thing? or have I misinterpreted your comment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 oh, it's bad. hybrid sli is only for super new cards. if he's got two different cards (possibly even by different chipsets!) plugged into a board and is trying to run them together, you can burn out both plugs or brick the mobo. not to mention damaging the gpus due to a 'brown-out' like condition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Effef Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 oh, it's bad. hybrid sli is only for super new cards. if he's got two different cards (possibly even by different chipsets!) plugged into a board and is trying to run them together, you can burn out both plugs or brick the mobo. not to mention damaging the gpus due to a 'brown-out' like condition. uuh you can run two different cards on the same motherboard without any power issues, as long as your power supply is powerful enough what happens 100% of the time is driver conflicts in the OS anyway, i dont think he is talking about running them both at the same time, just one or the other won't work under vista he needs to specify what they are and which one is causing the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 sorry, i had my info wrong. you can't run two cards together in sli or it'll burn out your plugs - but you can use two cards, assuming you've got enough wattage. that's my mistake, didn't realize there was a big distinction. still need product numbers to figure out why one doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phill Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 That makes for sense, I wanted to make sure before I called you nuts... and yes, more info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitty Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 sorry, i had my info wrong. you can't run two cards together in sli or it'll burn out your plugs - but you can use two cards, assuming you've got enough wattage. that's my mistake, didn't realize there was a big distinction.still need product numbers to figure out why one doesn't work. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of SLI? I thought SLI and Crossfire were to link two cards together? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Effef Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 SLI = 2 of THE SAME nvidia cards working together Crossfire = two of THE SAME ATI cards working together You cant do either of them if you don't use two of the same cards, the software/hardware itself won't allow it. Note, this is leaving out hybrid SLI and CrossfireX. I have yet to figure out what mephisto is referring to when he says "burning out your plugs". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitty Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Ah yes, I forgot that he was running two different cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 if you run two different cards in sli together, you'll brick the board if you're unlucky and burn out the plugs for said cards if you're lucky. happened to a friend of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Effef Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 if you run two different cards in sli together, you'll brick the board if you're unlucky and burn out the plugs for said cards if you're lucky. happened to a friend of mine. I always figured they just wouldn't go into SLI mode. Good to know though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 no, the bridge has something to do with it...i don't know what, but you've gotta be careful. sometimes it'll only torch one plug, sometimes the whole deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.T.W. Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 Sorry I didnt post before, I couldnt check this site yesterday (server down right?) so I didnt post. He are the 2 cards in question: NVidia GForce FX 5200 (this one works properly) Standard VGA graphics addapter. This one came with the mobo, When I was using XP, I was able to use both card at the same time. I would have to screens connected to my PC with no problems, When I switched to Vista the 2nd card wouldnt work. I didnt know till now that you could burn the mobo if you're nuning two different cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 a vga adapter isn't a graphics card, it's just a converter to allow your integrated video that you have on your mobo to come out of the board. likely, your integrated video can't handle vista, so as a result the passthrough (the vga adapter) doesn't work. i'm surprised vista works at all on an fx card. they're like what, five years out of date? six? the mobo burning out thing doesn't apply to this, it applies to two pci express x16 cards (aka, has come out relatively recently) running in sli with a bridge between them. both of those cards are PCI-only, i believe (pci 1.1, right effef?), and can't plug into a pci express slot, even if you had one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.T.W. Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 i'm surprised vista works at all on an fx card. they're like what, five years out of date? six? . I bought it about 4 years ago, yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Effef Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 (pci 1.1, right effef?) either that or AGP, i cant remember if they did AGP 5200s or not the 5200 should work under vista, but don't expect any hardware acceleration for aero glass or whatever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 that's a good point...i remember when agp cards were supposed to (with cockroaches) outlive armegeddon. and here we are, with fallout 3 out, using dual pcix16 2.0. and everyone hated pcix when it came out =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitty Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 They did do AGP 5200s but either way that card is way too old to run Vista effectively. So basically you're due for an upgrade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 unless his board doesn't have anything to upgrade to - most older dells and a few other systems were out before pcix came out, leaving him with only relatively expensive, middle-range upgrades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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