That might be the problem, the motherboard manufacturing ABit nor Nvidia has
any drivers for Vista. :-(

Al

"Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
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> "Alfred Kaufmann" <al.kaufmann@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>> The windows experience rating for my machine is 1.0! It is being
>> dragged down by my video card, a Sapphire X1950 Pro with 512MB. The
>> graphics and gaming subscore is 1.0. I thought it might be problems with
>> this video card and I pulled it out and installed an ATI Radeon 850XL
>> with 256MB - same score. I tried the ATI latest drivers and earlier
>> drivers, no change.
>>
>> Everything seems to be working fine. The only thing I can see is an
>> exclamation mark, "! New hardware detected, your Windows Experience Index
>> needs to be refreshed" No matter how many time I refresh this index, I
>> keep getting this message.
>>
>> This is obviously a problem with Vista and not with the video card. Is
>> there a way to correct this problem?
>>
>
>
> It sounds like the video card is not being recognised properly. Try
> updating the chipset driver for your motherboard then reinstall the
> graphic driver.
>
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> Kerry Brown
> Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
> http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
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