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Steps I take after Microsoft Windows 7 installation « Knowledgebase — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:40:36 +0000

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By: Dave G

Dave G — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:15:27 +0000

Just an update… Nvidia (and apparently other) drivers don’t work well with Hypervisor. So, I’ve made progress (but not a solution) by disabling hypervisor.

By: Dave G

Dave G — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:28:21 +0000

By: Dave G

Dave G — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:47:51 +0000

If you want, I'll put this in the forum, but here's where I'm at... The Display Adapter appeared in Device Manager only after I re-enabled the motherboard display adapter in BIOS. Unfortunately, what showed up was the plain vanilla vga adapter. Your PCI to PCI bridge clue is probably spot on, as a the single "complaint" from Device Manager is (one of) the PCI to PCI bride items. I learned from Tyan this morning that Nvidia is not supporting the Nforce Pro 2200 chipset on R2. So... now I suspect we've found the nut of the problem. Ever remembering anyone have trouble with NForce chipset(s) on R2? Any help appreciatd - and I'm happy to donate more if I can get this working. Thanks, Dave (feel free to email) ? The specs are: Tyan S4985G3NR-E Motherboard 4 Hexacore Opterons Arris: At the NVIDIA website there are no Windows 7 drivers for the NForce Pro 2000 series, so you should try the Vista x64 drivers and hope these work. Looks like you would have the same problem if you would have used Windows 7, or did it work for you in Windows 7? If that is the case you could extract the drivers from Windows 7 using for example Driver Genius and install them into Windows Server 2008 R2. Anyway, you 'd better post your topic with all info you provider/received so far at the forum so more experts can think about this problem.

By: Dave G

Dave G — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:40:34 +0000

Thanks, Arris. My hold up is that the there is no “Display” node in the device manager – so I’m not sure how to handle the update. Poking around – if this rings a bell let me know.

Thanks again.
Dave G

Arris: Hm, they should be in the Display adapters section of the Device Manager. What if you change to Devices by connection in the view menu and navigate to COMPUTER\ACPI x64-based PC\Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System\PCI bus\PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge? Another possibility is to look in one of the Devices views of Lavalys Everest as can be seen here. Also, have you installed your motherboard drivers? Your motherboard is the link between your OS and the graphics card(s). Good luck and thanks for your support ( )!

By: Dave G

Dave G — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:50:55 +0000

Cam anyone point me to the right thread / post on how to get Nvidia driver’s to install? I’ve got dual GTX295 and the seem happy – but no Nvidia drivers yet – so I can’t enable SLI.

Help? And thanks.
Dave G

Arris: The Windows 7 x64 drivers should work fine. You can download them from here. If installing them using the installer doesn’t work, try to install them via the Device Manager manually. Note: In the latest version of 7-zip you might have to extract the executable first and then you will have to extract the [0] file too. If you still can’t get it working, I invite you to ask your question at the forum!

By: erich

erich — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:26:30 +0000

Here’s a bizarre one…

I have a EVGA, Nvidia GeForce 7300GT card with one VGA and one DVI connected to one Dell 2408WFP and one 2407WFP running through a dual monitor KVM. I was previously running Server 2008 on this machine without the only video problem being that every time I booted, the DVI monitor (2407) would reduce resolution – an easy fix.

Now with 2008r2, and the latest driver (11/20/09), when I switch back to this machine after a little while away (20 minutes?), the VGA monitor isn’t recognized. Everything drops back to a single monitor. Even more odd, if I go to “Control Panel\Appearance\Display\Screen Resolution” and click on the “Detect” button, the second monitor is “seen” only 10-20% of the time. I can get a second monitor after a minute or so of futzing, but that is extremely annoying.

If this were all a new setup, I wouldn’t hesitate to blame the KVM or video card, but like I said it all worked before with 2008. Does anyone here have any suggestions?

By: Mark Peter

Mark Peter — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:50:06 +0000

Try “NeoSmart Technologies – EasyBCD”,
Google to download the latest version 1.7.2 as I wrote down this message.
Always install this under Local-Admin account! (Elevate install)
Execute the binary program, discard the stupid warning of UAC, because it runs very well and safely on Windows32/64 Vista/Seven and WS2008(R2)!
Go to the left-paned-button; Advanced Options (At first: make from all settings, under all groups a “Save” and “Backup” first, so when you “Cancel” the total Operation (by pressing “Apply Settings”, nothing changes!!)
Set here:
“Allow unsigned driver installation of Vista x64″,
and:
“DEP: Allways Off”,
ATI litterly ‘executes unsigned drivers’ – stupid as that might be…. at my place this works, but first still try without the “DEP: Allways Off” option, just because it could lead to an unstable system, and I am stupid, and I think I know what I am doing.., after 14 years of IT .

Good luck, e-mail me, I will answer by posting here, so its handy for anybody, okay?

By: Duke2k

Duke2k — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:14:48 +0000

Have the same problem: Win2k8 R2 with ATI Radeon 3850 card. Drivers for Win7 won't install. Any help is greatly appreciated. Arris: Why won't they install? Which error do you get? Have you tried to manually install the drivers?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:53:31 +0000

Thank you for the rundll32 syntax; I didn’t know because rundll32.exe has no command line help (/?).

Hibernate is not supported on systems with more than 4GB RAM. There was a boot option “/MAXMEM=4096″ which might be still supported for 2008 R2, but I think that’s a disadvantage overall ….