compatibilty between asus A9550 and windows vista

[gundja]

i would like to purchase an agp graphics card Asus A9550 but do not know if it is compatible with win vista. what do u think ?

it is a low budget card around $60 but i am on a very tight budget.
does it support win vista?

thanks

[Midknyte]

If it uses the ATI 9550 chipset and has 128MB ram, it should run on vista.

Are you sure you want to run vista on an older system? Unless you have at least 2GB of ram, I'd stick with XP.

[gundja]

i will be opting for a dual boot system with win xp/windows vista and i will be mainly using win vista for learning purposes.
i already have a amd duron processor @ 800 mghz and 768 sd ram pc133.

one thing that i forget to mention is that it indicates on the box that it is compatible with only winxp/2000!! so do u think dwld catalyst drivers will help me

where can i download the catalyst drivers for this card ?

[Midknyte]

That system is not going to handle vista. cpu is way too slow and 768 ram ain't gonna cut it.

Catalyst drivers are on the ATI website.

[gundja]

That system is not going to handle vista. cpu is way too slow and 768 ram ain't gonna cut it.

i ran windows vista upgrade advisor on my pc and it confirms that everything is ok except my video card.

i just got another alternative for my graphics card tornado geforce fx 5200.


which one would you recommend bewteen the two?

[Midknyte]

The 9550 is better.

Whatever, dude. I've run Vista on lower systems and it will crawl.

[Train]

amd duron processor @ 800 mghz and 768 sd ram pc133

Expect to be very, very disappointed with your experience!

Best bet, a dual core cpu with 2 GB of ram minimum.

[gundja]

finally bought the card today and everything is ok under win xp.

so i decided to install win vista in another partition and then, my journey to hell begins.
first attempt ,blue screen of death error ---page fault in non paged area.

after searching on google, many users reporting that bad ram may be the culprit.so i test my memory during 2hrs with memtest. result is ok ,no errors.

2nd attempt,bsod error: 0*0000008E

3rd attempt : try a clean installation ,remove win xp .winvista still crashes during installation ....expanding files 37% and bsod errror ---bad pool caller
stop 0*000000c2

you know what ,vista is not for me . i have no clue why vista is crashing during installation and i will be definitely sticking with xp for life.

[Lgbpop]

A Duron with 768MB SDRAM is good enough for 9x or 2000, and adequate for XP. I sure wouldn't try to put Vista on that; you really need more recent hardware for Vista.

[Midknyte]

I said in my first reply that you should stick with XP on that system.

I'm not a Vista advocate by any means. However, I don't think it is fair to bash Vista if you are trying to install it on inferior hardware.