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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4372641" data-attributes="member: 41321">So, I recently obtained a copy of Vista Ultimate x64 (legally!), and I wanted to try it out.  I have a 64-bit processor, but had been running regular 32-bit XP, so I wanted to see what it could do with a real 64-bit processor.Of course, with Vista nothing is easy.  I re-partitioned my hard drive to set aside a piece for Vista and installed it so I could dual-boot between Vista and XP.  The install went well, but I hadn't counted on the fact that my video card, which was top of the line when I bought it quite a few years ago, was actually not compatible with Vista!  I have a Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4400, and upgrading is not really an option because my motherboard is too old to support any modern cards (it's just regular PCI, not PCI-Express or anything like that).  If I wanted to upgrade the card I'd have to upgrade the whole computer, and while I would love to just buy a whole new computer I'm trying to save money at the moment.Has anyone ever gone through something similar who could give me some tips?  I've installed a few XP drivers to try to get it working, and I've gotten to the point where I can get a decent resolution on my monitor, but I've yet to get my second monitor working.  This is really the deal-breaker for me.  If my second monitor can't be used then I'm going back to XP....but even going back to XP won't be easy.  When I started using Vista it started reporting that my hard drive was about to have a massive failure.  It had been working fine up until now, but I figured that I may have done something bad to it during the re-partitioning process, so I quickly backed up the entire drive.  Did the backup in XP and I left it to run the backup overnight.  After the backup was done XP decided to install some updates and reboot all by itself.  Of course, when it came back up it booted into Vista.  I was very confused when I came back to my machine in the morning and saw Vista when I had left it at XP the night before.  The backup succeeded, but somehow in the xp-update-reboot-vista process it killed my ethernet card in XP.  I can get internet just fine when in Vista, but I have not found a way to fix it in XP.  So right now my choices are to get my video card working in Vista, get my ethernet card working in XP, or just give up and buy a new PC.Help? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />(By the way, I'm a manager of the tech support department for a small software company and am a Microsoft Certified Professional, so my tech comfort level and computer knowledge are both very high.)Edit: I should mention that, while Vista continue to report imminent hard drive failure that my drive has been working flawlessly for about a week now, and shows no sign of hardship whatsoever in XP.  I'm guessing that Vista is just having problems with my older hard drive and it's not actually due for failure.  Still backed up the entire thing to my brand new 500 GB external drive, though.</blockquote>

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