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Yeraposer

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April 2nd, 2007 06:00

Anyone's display look better with Vista?

One of the things keeping me from going back to XP is the fact that Vista looks better. I have a Geforce 7900 card and since switching things are ..brighter and maybe a little smoother.

chama98

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April 2nd, 2007 08:00


Yeraposer wrote:
One of the things keeping me from going back to XP is the fact that Vista looks better. I have a Geforce 7900 card and since switching things are ..brighter and maybe a little smoother.

have you got a dual graphics card?
 
If so is your other card sounding like a hairdryer?
 
MINE IS!!! AND ITS DRIVING ME MAD! I might go back to XP if this carries on.

steve1080

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April 2nd, 2007 08:00

We have the same card - Windows Vista / NVidia driver does not control the graphic card fan correctly. We have tri-booted our machines and found that UBuntu (Linux) and Windows XP Home/Prof all control the fan correctly (nice and quiet when card not being driven hard). Really not sure why the Vista driver is not working correctly but I am guessing the temperature sensor from the card is not being correctly read or the Driver is simply not setting the fan speed and the default is full on and very loud. (we have stopped using Vista and are using Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu).

chama98

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April 2nd, 2007 09:00


steve1080 wrote:
We have the same card - Windows Vista / NVidia driver does not control the graphic card fan correctly. We have tri-booted our machines and found that UBuntu (Linux) and Windows XP Home/Prof all control the fan correctly (nice and quiet when card not being driven hard). Really not sure why the Vista driver is not working correctly but I am guessing the temperature sensor from the card is not being correctly read or the Driver is simply not setting the fan speed and the default is full on and very loud. (we have stopped using Vista and are using Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu).
I have found a fix.
 
well this worked on My XPS 700, if you go into the control panel and select power options, click on power saver this will stop the cards fan after a while when all power options windows are closed. its back to its old quiet self.
 

 

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