flasing screen after installation

Hi, I've installed Vista on a 30gig partition as a dual boot with XP. As soon as the installation process reached the desktop the screen started brteaking up and flashing. I had run the Upgrade Advisor and it said everything was OK. I booted in Safe Mode and checked Device Manager and everything was OK. I looked at the settings for the graphic card, which has 250 mb of ram, and it said the device was working correctly. I stoll think it has something to do with the graphic card but what I'm at a loss. Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks. -- colinlam

I suspect its the Graphics driver too, I would check the developers website and install the latest beta driver for Vista, either nVidia or ATI, depending the brand card you have installed. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"colinlam" wrote in message

Hi, I've installed Vista on a 30gig partition as a dual boot with XP. As soon as the installation process reached the desktop the screen started brteaking up and flashing. I had run the Upgrade Advisor and it said everything was OK. I booted in Safe Mode and checked Device Manager and everything was OK. I looked at the settings for the graphic card, which has 250 mb of ram, and it said the device was working correctly. I stoll think it has something to do with the graphic card but what I'm at a loss. Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks. -- colinlam

Thanks for your comment. It was the graphic card driver, I uninstalled it and Vista reinstalled it correctly so all is well.
Really impressed by both the Vista and Office betas, the future looks good. -- colinlam
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

I suspect its the Graphics driver too, I would check the developers website and install the latest beta driver for Vista, either nVidia or ATI, depending the brand card you have installed. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"colinlam" wrote in message Hi, I've installed Vista on a 30gig partition as a dual boot with XP. As soon as the installation process reached the desktop the screen started brteaking up and flashing. I had run the Upgrade Advisor and it said everything was OK. I booted in Safe Mode and checked Device Manager and everything was OK. I looked at the settings for the graphic card, which has 250 mb of ram, and it said the device was working correctly. I stoll think it has something to do with the graphic card but what I'm at a loss. Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks. -- colinlam

I am sitting with similar problem I installed VISTA today, when it comes to the prepare desktop and then showing the desktop and then the whole time after that, I have this black flashing line, very irratating. I installed the latest ATI vista driver from ATI website, but still same problem. When I open the ATI Control centre, it shows mu AGP as 128X instead of 8X I even went into the bios and set agp rate to 4x and 8x but still no effect remains at 128X and flashing black line. I also fiddled with the AGP drive Strength, If set to Auto in Bios, then vista will start normaly but if i set it to manual in BIOS and it defaults to DA, i have tried other options too, then vista loads till the logon screen then my Monitor turns of, hard reset the machine set bios AGP drive strength back to AUTO then Vista loads again normal. Combination: Vista Beta 2 ATi Beta drivens and/or Generic Microsoft ATI drivers Jetway V600DAP- via KT600 /VT8237 lates A05 Bios Ati 9800XT 256mb
I have a feeling the OS does not set the AGP transfer rate correctly, and as there is not jet any VISTA via chipset drivers I can not correct the issue.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

I suspect its the Graphics driver too, I would check the developers website and install the latest beta driver for Vista, either nVidia or ATI, depending the brand card you have installed. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"colinlam" wrote in message Hi, I've installed Vista on a 30gig partition as a dual boot with XP. As soon as the installation process reached the desktop the screen started brteaking up and flashing. I had run the Upgrade Advisor and it said everything was OK. I booted in Safe Mode and checked Device Manager and everything was OK. I looked at the settings for the graphic card, which has 250 mb of ram, and it said the device was working correctly. I stoll think it has something to do with the graphic card but what I'm at a loss. Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks. -- colinlam

My ati9600 shows the 128X there, too. It also shows 256 MB (it's 128 MB). Still, it works fine, which I can't say for the nvidia 6200 AGP that -was- in there. The 6200 caused very high CPU waste: 80% using the stock accel. driver, 20% using the nvidia web-DL driver, and 0% using the non-accel. stock driver. The ati 9600 is also 0% waste (good), and full acceleration. When I say "CPU waste", I mean 80% out of (say) every 1 second everything was dead, then 20% normal (2/10ths of a second okay), then 8/10ths dead, and so on. All I did to correct that was remove the nvidia 6200 & driver, plug in the (fanless) ati 9600 and away it went. I'm using Catalyst pkg 8.26.LH-RC0-... It pulls a 3.7 performance rating for graphics and 3.4 for "gaming" (but shows 256 MB gfx mem). Works for me, at least.
J- [Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:03:02 -0700]:

Combination: Vista Beta 2 ATi Beta drivens and/or Generic Microsoft ATI drivers Jetway V600DAP- via KT600 /VT8237 lates A05 Bios Ati 9800XT 256mb

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I found a solution on another thread. goto task manager, End Prosses taskeng.exe
"hel@40th.com" wrote:

My ati9600 shows the 128X there, too. It also shows 256 MB (it's 128 MB). Still, it works fine, which I can't say for the nvidia 6200 AGP that -was- in there. The 6200 caused very high CPU waste: 80% using the stock accel. driver, 20% using the nvidia web-DL driver, and 0% using the non-accel. stock driver. The ati 9600 is also 0% waste (good), and full acceleration. When I say "CPU waste", I mean 80% out of (say) every 1 second everything was dead, then 20% normal (2/10ths of a second okay), then 8/10ths dead, and so on. All I did to correct that was remove the nvidia 6200 & driver, plug in the (fanless) ati 9600 and away it went. I'm using Catalyst pkg 8.26.LH-RC0-... It pulls a 3.7 performance rating for graphics and 3.4 for "gaming" (but shows 256 MB gfx mem). Works for me, at least.
J- [Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:03:02 -0700]: Combination: Vista Beta 2 ATi Beta drivens and/or Generic Microsoft ATI drivers Jetway V600DAP- via KT600 /VT8237 lates A05 Bios Ati 9800XT 256mb
-- 40th Floor - Software @ http://40th.com/ iPlay : the ultimate audio player for mobiles parametric eq, xfeed, reverb; all on a mobile

For a more permanent solution for me. goto Computer Manager, then services and applications - services, scroll down and find Task Scheduler, now set it from Automatic to Manual and reboot your system. The taskeng.exe services wont run now, and now flickering or flashing screen , black lines every few seconds. I dont really know that the taskeng.exe does, there are a few of them running after boot, and after removing this service from Autostarting, I ahve alos not seen any adherce bad affect, all seems to function normaly.
Ciao
"Jannie" wrote:

I found a solution on another thread. goto task manager, End Prosses taskeng.exe
"hel@40th.com" wrote:
My ati9600 shows the 128X there, too. It also shows 256 MB (it's 128 MB). Still, it works fine, which I can't say for the nvidia 6200 AGP that -was- in there. The 6200 caused very high CPU waste: 80% using the stock accel. driver, 20% using the nvidia web-DL driver, and 0% using the non-accel. stock driver. The ati 9600 is also 0% waste (good), and full acceleration. When I say "CPU waste", I mean 80% out of (say) every 1 second everything was dead, then 20% normal (2/10ths of a second okay), then 8/10ths dead, and so on. All I did to correct that was remove the nvidia 6200 & driver, plug in the (fanless) ati 9600 and away it went. I'm using Catalyst pkg 8.26.LH-RC0-... It pulls a 3.7 performance rating for graphics and 3.4 for "gaming" (but shows 256 MB gfx mem). Works for me, at least.
J- [Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:03:02 -0700]: Combination: Vista Beta 2 ATi Beta drivens and/or Generic Microsoft ATI drivers Jetway V600DAP- via KT600 /VT8237 lates A05 Bios Ati 9800XT 256mb
-- 40th Floor - Software @ http://40th.com/ iPlay : the ultimate audio player for mobiles parametric eq, xfeed, reverb; all on a mobile