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Vista Ready ?

Jul 2, 2007 12:25AM PDT

I have an MSI K8N Neo (MS-7030) v1.X ATX Motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 3000+,2 gig, 1024 MB Ram, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 128MB video card. I plan to dual boot XP pro and Vista Home Basic 64 bit. I ran Windows Vista Upgrade advisor and it says my computer is Vista ready. But under devices it lists: NVIDIA nForce Networking controler "There is no compatibility data available for this device." Can someone tell me what this does and how to correct it? Thanks in advance

Richard

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Chipset Driver
Jul 2, 2007 1:03AM PDT

The NVIDIA nForce Networking controler is part of the chipset driver. Unfortunatley Nvidia are not supporting the NForce3 chipset in vista, and I believe that this motherboard is NForce3 as I had a K8N Neo2 based on the Nforce3 chipset.

However this driver may be included in hte vista install, in which case there is no problem. You'll have to find out from someone else if this is the case, though.

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Vista Ready
Jul 2, 2007 1:18AM PDT

So If I understand you I can not run vista on this machine.

Richard

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I wouldn't say that at all...
Jul 2, 2007 7:39AM PDT

The problem is that the Vista upgrade adviser isn't sure if an updated networking driver is available. Most likely Vista will contain the needed driver or automatically fetch one after installation. If not you can click here to download a pre-release driver. (They didn't proceed with development for the Vista nForce 3 drivers.) In the worst case scenario you would have to purchase a $10-$15 networking card to replace the on-board ethernet. Aside from that you shouldn't have any problems.

Good luck.
John

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(NT) Thanks John And everyone else.
Jul 2, 2007 8:33AM PDT