Anyone get Vista Beta 1 working w/ nvidia ethernet


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I got my ATI drivers working by running them in compatibility mode, now i would really like the internet to make my vista experiance perfect.

it doesn't work tho???

i am downloading the latest nforce 4 drivers to extract the ethernet driver from there and hope it works even tho i have an nforce 3 ethernet controller.

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i feel the pain of all the nvidia 6000 graphics series users

since we didnt get the good drivers, the theme doesnt work right

unless someone has a fix for it

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i feel the pain of all the nvidia 6000 graphics series users

since we didnt get the good drivers, the theme doesnt work right

unless someone has a fix for it

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try doing what i did and run the installer in XP compatability mode.

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Neither does my Linksys EtherFast? 10/100 LAN Card:cry::  .

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I find it weird that a few common cards seem unsupported when my relatively unknown/new VIA gigabit card had drivers built in.

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see that's what i meant. people download it and oan oh no my drivers do not work. it's a beta OS. what do you expect.

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I made the mistake of Dualbooting Vista with XP... now my system is hosed. I was getting missing NTLDR messages, got that fixed, then got BOOTMGR issues. Performed a repair and things appeared to be normal, fixed the MBR, everything.

No Dice... Gonna reformat and call it at that... this sucks :| Should have installed on my other system :angry:

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I expect common components to be supported, but what can you do. We're here to try to find a fix/work around. You telling us it's a beta OS doesn't help.

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If you want to test beta OS's, make sure you buy a card with a Realtek 8139 chip on it (they are the cheapest as well, often rebranded (i.e Dlink DFE-583TX)). I would be surprised if you could find an OS that does not support it...

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If you want to test beta OS's, make sure you buy a card with a Realtek 8139 chip on it (they are the cheapest as well, often rebranded (i.e Dlink DFE-583TX)).  I would be surprised if you could find an OS that does not support it...

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:yes:

You can get them dirt cheap too..theres a brand sold here that uses that chip and it's like $15 canadian.

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I didn't have any problems (that weren't expected)

You should cross your fingers but EXPECT stuff to not work.

On my XP partition my nForce 4 6.66 drivers caused random glitches and caused anything I downloaded to become corrupt. I reverted back to 6.53 and using WinRAR, extracted the files from the 6.53 executable and gave those a shot in Vista Beta 1. The installation had an error when it came to installing the IDE driver, but I restarted and then manually installed the ethernet by directing it towards the folder with all the extracted drivers. Voila, it worked.

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DFI LanParty UT nF4 Ultra-D

Metro: What did you use to create a second partition? I used PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8 and it worked great. The Vista installation was so painless, I wish XP were just like it.

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