Do not install drivers from Vista WU

A pci express driver for ATi cards has appeared and seem to be causing
major problems. I could no boot my Vista partition in any type of safe
mode, let alone normal mode. I had always avoided Windows Update
drivers, but thought things may have improved with Vista.

The driver in question is ATi PCI Express 3GIO or something very
similar.

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** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

Dr Teeth <no.email.here.please@tardis.com> wrote:
> A pci express driver for ATi cards has appeared and seem to be causing
> major problems. I could no boot my Vista partition in any type of safe
> mode, let alone normal mode. I had always avoided Windows Update
> drivers, but thought things may have improved with Vista.
>
> The driver in question is ATi PCI Express 3GIO or something very
> similar.

It killed my onboard Marvell network. I had to use system restore.
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On Nov 15, 4:40 pm, Dr Teeth <no.email.here.ple...@tardis.com> wrote:
> A pci express driver for ATi cards has appeared and seem to be causing
> major problems. I could no boot my Vista partition in any type of safe
> mode, let alone normal mode. I had always avoided Windows Update
> drivers, but thought things may have improved with Vista.
>
> The driver in question is ATi PCI Express 3GIO or something very
> similar.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Guy
>
> ** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
> ** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
> ** out of someone who richly deserves it.

The whole Vista is just nitemare. I had it. I could not believe Vista
has a kept
timing clock connection to the MicroSoft. I could not figure out why
my Vista
no longer booted. I realized that my timing has ran out. No more
Vista.

Red Cloud wrote:
> On Nov 15, 4:40 pm, Dr Teeth <no.email.here.ple...@tardis.com>
> wrote:
>> A pci express driver for ATi cards has appeared and seem to be
>> causing major problems. I could no boot my Vista partition in any
>> type of safe mode, let alone normal mode. I had always avoided
>> Windows Update drivers, but thought things may have improved with
>> Vista.
>>
>> The driver in question is ATi PCI Express 3GIO or something very
>> similar.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Guy
>>
>> ** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
>> ** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
>> ** out of someone who richly deserves it.
>
> The whole Vista is just nitemare. I had it. I could not believe
> Vista
> has a kept
> timing clock connection to the MicroSoft. I could not figure out why
> my Vista
> no longer booted. I realized that my timing has ran out. No more
> Vista.

XP will stop booting if you don't activate it within the time limit as
well.

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ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
> Dr Teeth <no.email.here.please@tardis.com> wrote:
>> A pci express driver for ATi cards has appeared and seem to be
>> causing major problems. I could no boot my Vista partition in any
>> type of safe mode, let alone normal mode. I had always avoided
>> Windows Update drivers, but thought things may have improved with
>> Vista.
>>
>> The driver in question is ATi PCI Express 3GIO or something very
>> similar.
>
> It killed my onboard Marvell network. I had to use system restore.
>

Never, _EVER_ install a driver from Windows Update unless there is
_no_ other driver available.


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On Nov 15, 8:17 pm, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...@cox.net> wrote:
> Red Cloud wrote:
> > On Nov 15, 4:40 pm, Dr Teeth <no.email.here.ple...@tardis.com>
> > wrote:
> >> A pci express driver for ATi cards has appeared and seem to be
> >> causing major problems. I could no boot my Vista partition in any
> >> type of safe mode, let alone normal mode. I had always avoided
> >> Windows Update drivers, but thought things may have improved with
> >> Vista.
>
> >> The driver in question is ATi PCI Express 3GIO or something very
> >> similar.
>
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
>
> >> Guy
>
> >> ** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
> >> ** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
> >> ** out of someone who richly deserves it.
>
> > The whole Vista is just nitemare. I had it. I could not believe
> > Vista
> > has a kept
> > timing clock connection to the MicroSoft. I could not figure out why
> > my Vista
> > no longer booted. I realized that my timing has ran out. No more
> > Vista.
>
> XP will stop booting if you don't activate it within the time limit as
> well.
>
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How comes I'm using XP now?

Red Cloud wrote:
> On Nov 15, 8:17 pm, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...@cox.net> wrote:
>> Red Cloud wrote:
>>> On Nov 15, 4:40 pm, Dr Teeth <no.email.here.ple...@tardis.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> A pci express driver for ATi cards has appeared and seem to be
>>>> causing major problems. I could no boot my Vista partition in any
>>>> type of safe mode, let alone normal mode. I had always avoided
>>>> Windows Update drivers, but thought things may have improved with
>>>> Vista.
>>
>>>> The driver in question is ATi PCI Express 3GIO or something very
>>>> similar.
>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers,
>>
>>>> Guy
>>
>>>> ** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
>>>> ** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
>>>> ** out of someone who richly deserves it.
>>
>>> The whole Vista is just nitemare. I had it. I could not believe
>>> Vista
>>> has a kept
>>> timing clock connection to the MicroSoft. I could not figure out
>>> why
>>> my Vista
>>> no longer booted. I realized that my timing has ran out. No more
>>> Vista.
>>
>> XP will stop booting if you don't activate it within the time limit
>> as well.
>>
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>> --John
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>
>
> How comes I'm using XP now?

Presumably because you activated it within the time limit.

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