I finally fixed my Vista Ultimate desktop this weekend, after nearly a year of trying.
To cut a long story short, when removing Vista over a year ago, the motherboard and graphics card blew-up. I rebuilt the machine, however it crashed repeatedly and ground to a halt when burning CD’s / DVD’s.
However a report last week as to the cause of Vista crashes, stating that 40% of reported failures where due to NVidia graphics cards got me thinking.
I purchased a new 256mb graphics card, capable of Directx 10 and Vista compatible, to replace the old 32mb graphics card Directx 9 (as I don’t play any PC games it made sense at the time), and hey pesto, my PC is as fast as I day I brought it.
Hence the lesson – Graphic cards for Vista should be at least 256mb of Ram and Directx 10 compatible to cope with the this visually remanding operating system.
