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by c666318

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Please somebody can help me?
I recently bought Windows Vista Home Premium, my PC is a Athlon 64 3200 with 1.5 gig of memory, two HDD 250 Gb each, a GeForce FX 5500 videocard and a ATI Radeon all Wonder 200 PCI TV Tuner. Since I made a clean install of Vista, all the times I tried to shut down the PC appears a blue screen error with some stupid Xooo something erro and the computer restarts again. I tried to update all my drivers but apparently there are no updates for the videocard nor the TV Tuner. PLEASE HELP... I think Vista sucks and MS only wants the money of stupids like me.
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by dawgit

And try the OS again. The TV card could be (will be) a problem. (think DRM. :( )

by hal 9000

When it comes to anything Vista I always recommend that you post directly to the M$ Supported Web Site for Vista Users. If there is a solution they will be able to give you it and if there is no solution M$ will know that they have to improve their crappy code to allow their new OS to work Sort Of Right.

The current problem with Vista in any form is a lack of drivers so most Hardware isn't even available to run on it and even the few vendors who do have Drivers available are still at the Beta Stage with their drivers.

Personally I would think that it's the TV Capture Card as well and use XP till Vista eventually works right in about 18 months time and by then well see who's actively supporting it with Drivers and the like. In the mean time you if you really want to run Vista you can ask here

http://tinyurl.com/yt8adb

Personally I'll only be putting Vista onto test Boxes for a very long time to come and may never adopt it because of the advancements to WGA that have been incorporated into it which have the ability to shut down your system without warning and either limit the usability of the OS or Kill it off completely.

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by donburnett

This is ATI's problem and a reason I'll never buy another tuner from them again. The only supported Tuner available to buy is the 650 that they sell. It has a driver for Vista. Shame on these folks for dropping support, but they say they don't sell the card anymore and it wasn't "Designed for Vista" but only older Windows OSes.. This is not Microsoft's fault. Complain to AMD/ATI..

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