A7N8X and Vista wakeup

I'm using an A7N8X mobo (1.04) with Vista.

Despite many initial problems (most of which have been fixed by software
updates and a few hardware changes) it works very well.

The big problem is that after entering sleep/hibernate/ mode it isn't
possible to wake the monitor up - the mobo does seem to wake (judging by the
power and hd lights and the hd sounds) but there's no way of waking the
monitor (a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 750sb). Turning the monitor off and on
doesn't help and neither does unplugging the video cable from the monitor
(although I have only tried unplugging the monitor end and not the PC end).

The monitor does not detect the h or v signal from the graphics card (a
Radeon 9500). Nothing I do can change the situation.

Does this sound like a mobo problem with Vista.

Is it worth risking a floppy drive flash upgrade for the mobo from the
factory provided firmware for version 1.04?

Should I just bite the bullet, having spent money on Vista, and buy a new
PC?

If so what happens to the version of Vista I bought (I was ripped off by an
eBay seller who pretended to sell a "full" version of Vista bit actually
sold me an oem version which is therefore tied to the A7N8X)?

Thanks for any help.

Gareth.

Gareth wrote:
I'm using an A7N8X mobo (1.04) with Vista.

Despite many initial problems (most of which have been fixed by software
updates and a few hardware changes) it works very well.

The big problem is that after entering sleep/hibernate/ mode it isn't
possible to wake the monitor up - the mobo does seem to wake (judging by the
power and hd lights and the hd sounds) but there's no way of waking the
monitor (a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 750sb). Turning the monitor off and on
doesn't help and neither does unplugging the video cable from the monitor
(although I have only tried unplugging the monitor end and not the PC end).

The monitor does not detect the h or v signal from the graphics card (a
Radeon 9500). Nothing I do can change the situation.

Does this sound like a mobo problem with Vista.

Is it worth risking a floppy drive flash upgrade for the mobo from the
factory provided firmware for version 1.04?

Should I just bite the bullet, having spent money on Vista, and buy a new
PC?

If so what happens to the version of Vista I bought (I was ripped off by an
eBay seller who pretended to sell a "full" version of Vista bit actually
sold me an oem version which is therefore tied to the A7N8X)?

Thanks for any help.

Gareth.

First off, you should be looking in a forum like this. Plenty of people
here will be using Nforce2 boards, and fighting with Vista.

"Nvidia will not support Vista Drivers for Nforce 2 Motherboard"
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/nvid...a-vt68359.html

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/fri-...-vp603563.html

As far as your choice of OS, for an older board, where the writing is
on the wall with regard to support, I think I'd try WinXP before
I'd go with Vista. And I don't think I'd completely change my
hardware, just so I could use an OS. It is supposed to work the
other way around - the OS is there to support the hardware.

Buying an OS on Ebay ? Better to blow the money at a casino.

Is the Radeon 9500 supported in Vista ? Do you have an
actual Catalyst that uses acceleration features of the
card ? Maybe a different video card might be the answer.
Or a different OS, depending on which is cheaper :-)

Do you know whether the "dumppo.exe" program works with Vista ?
Perhaps it will identify a driver that is not supporting S3.

Paul