I'm running Vista Ultimate and, for the most part, things are running properly. I thought I would check with MSI and see if there was an update for the BIOS for my motherboard. When I got to their site and sent them the specifics of my MSI Motherboard, I was told that there was not a Vista BIOS update and also that my board had not yet been tested to be Vista Ready. They sent me back a note saying not to install Vista. Well I have and it is running.

My question is this. Would the Vista Readiness Test not shown that my mainboard was not compatible with Vista. I never thought to look into the MSI motherboard when seeing if my system was Vista Ready.

MSI listed several of their motherboards that were Vista Certified. I am sure they might be better but my thinking is that MSI is just wanting to sell another motherboard. As my version of Vista Ultimate is OEM, I don't plan on replacing my motherboard.

Any thought would sure be appreciated!! Thank in advance.

BIOS' are generally not OS specific so contacting them was sheer waste of their time as well as yours.

Ask a wrong question & a wrong answer is the right answer.

Give it up for MC Rove

The Vista Ready testing only checkes hardware not BIOSes.

If a motherboard itself isn't Vista Ready it's normally due to an intergrated graphics procesor not being compatible with Vista.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

Not being Vista may also simply mean the maker has not paid the fee to MS to list their product as such.

Bryan

I thought no question was the wrong question. Not asking is the real wrong thing to do. Once I have and I ask again than I'm not only ignorant but stupid.

As I haven't had any other problems, I tend to agree with Bryco.

I don't have an integrated video card but rather an Nvidia 7600 so I don't think the problem is there.

What is your problem then? ;-)

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Hats off & applause to rogues & evolution!
The ripple effect is too good not to mention.
If you’re not affected, you’re not paying attention!"

I thought no question was the wrong question.

No it isn't unless you habitually overdo it by not first doing some Google research & readup before asking quiz.

i_XpUser

That is exactly what I did. I don't believe I have "habitually" overdone it. Not quite fair XpUser. We don't all have your expertise. I looked everywhere I could, contacted friends that knew more than I did, talked to students who are studying computer science and thought I would come to this forum for some assistance. I feel your comments are uncalled for!

Not quite fair

What isn't fair - from your personal perspective?

You need to define for us what is fair!

Do you expect us to be at your disposal as you see fit?

We don't all have your expertise.

Q: Where do you think I learned most of what I know?

A: Google.

I looked everywhere I could

Maybe not enough. Learn to manipulate Google search using Boolean & advanced search techniques. Hey, the WWW is one big world with plenty of info waiting for you to find it.

i_XpUser

I'm still wondering what the problem is. LOL...

"Enough, enough bowing down to disillusion!
Hats off & applause to rogues & evolution!
The ripple effect is too good not to mention.
If you’re not affected, you’re not paying attention!"

I don't think there is any - maybe it's all in the OP head.

i_XpUser

If "for the most part, things are running properly" then it strikes me that the only thing you might need to look at is the other part. If you raise a post on this you might get a lot further.

If there is no other part then I'd stop worrying.

DerekW

That's my point... ROFL...

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