[Slikkie]

Hi all,

I recently installed Windows Vista Home Premium. Currently I'm dual booting XP with Vista, yet there is no sound on my Vista OS. I have a SoundMAX audio device. Where can I get a Vista driver for it?

Any advice is appreciated,

Slikkie

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Check out who made your mother board. I had sound issues with Vista and my Sigma Tel hardware, went to Intel site, located correct driver for Vista and it all works great..

Edited by MarkN, 11 May 2007 - 08:45 PM.

[Slikkie]

Hey

Thanks for the advice. I downloaded a Vista driver from the Asus website. My sound works good now. Only problem now is I need to download a Vista driver for my GPU to get the Aero feature working. I'm just wondering, will downloading the Vista GPU driver affect my XP GPU driver at all? Remember I'm Dual Booting.

Thanks in advance

Slikkie

[ViprXX]

no, it won't affect your xp driver because they are two different installations. xp will load its appropriate driver when you boot xp and vista will load its driver when you boot vista.

[Slikkie]

Thanks for the tip,

One more question. I've noticed that Vista uses about 430MB of physical memory on standby, and when I have IE7 or similair application open. Yet, when playing certain games I sometimes get an error stating that "THE MEMORY COULD NOT BE READ", and Windows then closes the application.

Here are my specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+
1GB DDR2 RAM
160GB HDD (Partitioned and resized to 135GB)
128MB GeForce 6150

XP uses about 350MB on standby, and I've never had an error like that.

Any help is appreciated,

Thanks

[Slikkie]

I can't understand how this could be the case, since XP only uses 100MB less on standby than Vista. Any other solution?

[Slikkie]

Thanks

Can you give me a rough figure at what percentage memory usage is becoming too high?

Slikkie

[Slikkie]

I've got no clue what you just said lol.

[Slikkie]

Thanks for everything.