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Vista and nForce2

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pklong

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Anyone installed it on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe board or any other nForce2 board? I got an ok from the upgrade advisor but want to hear real world experiences. I'm looking at getting Vista Home Premium Upgrade.

Thanks!
 
I did an MSI NF2 with a 2500 Barton, 1 gb of ram and a 80gb harddrive. I only had a ti4200 at the time ,so Aero was out, but as a whole Vista ran pretty good on it. Later, I got a bigger Video card that had 128 onboard ram and DX9 capable, and Aero automatically turned on, and the card was recognized and drivers were installed.If you get any problems installing, such as a reboot right after the message press any key to boot, upgrade your bios to the latest version and try again. This happened with my NF4 MSI K8NG2-L mb and just about drove me nuts. Thats why I KNOW the NF2 works, because I wiped a drive, and used the Beta software to install Vista 5744 RC2 on that. I'm still running RC2 on 2 of my latest builds, a MSI K9ng2-l AM2 with a 3800 and 1gb of ddr26400 ram and a sata2 drive Installed NP and is still running excellent and a FX 55 build ASUS also installed no problem.
 
Good to know it works. If my family wants to move the machine I gave them over to Vista (2500+, NF7-Sv2 - they'll need something better than the GF3 though. :)).

-bZj
 
I had the 5270 beta on an nForce2 with an XP-m@2.5. It ran about as well as expected. No Aero since I only had a Radeon 8500.

Later installed RC1 on a VIA KM400 chipset board with a Sempron 3000+ and a Radeon 9600XT and it was fine. Slow due to only having 512 meg of RAM, but it worked for the most part. No gaming on that system, though. Wolfenstein Enemy Territory would only pull about 10 FPS. That's really sad for a Quake3 engine based game. I'd bet drivers are a bit better now.

Basically, yes you can run Vista on an nForce2 board as long as you have at least a gig of RAM and a decent vid card if you want to use Aero.

 
Well I feel a little more assured I can at least run Vista. Can you get aero with a 9600 PRO with 128MB?
 
pklong said:
Well I feel a little more assured I can at least run Vista. Can you get aero with a 9600 PRO with 128MB?
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Yes, it's basically the same as my 9600XT except the XT runs faster clocks due to the smaller process and a couple other changes that came about with the 9800XT.

The requirements for Aero is DirectX 9 compatibility with 128 meg video RAM. That card will do just fine.

 
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