Problem After Vista Updates, Help Please!

Hi everyone,

After installing the 2 Vista Updates today, I encountered a few problems with my laptop. As background, I'm using a Dell Vostro 1400 with a C2D 2.0ghz Processor and an 8400M GS video card.

So after I intalled the updates and restarted, I went into DxDiag and for some reason Vista is not recognizing my System Manufacturer, Bios or CPU Speed. They are all showing up as n/a.

In the display tab, it recognizes that I have an 8400M GS, but it no longer displays any information about the drivers.

At first I thought this was a harmless bug, but I noticed that the laptop began to be less responsive and the CPU was under at least 40% load most of the time. Then I loaded Counter-Strike 1.6 to make sure the video card was fine, and I can only get around 30FPS max.

I'm not sure what to do, any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

Go to control panel/system maintenance/windows update and click on installed updates . Uninstall should be an option. If not, and you have system restore on, you can do a system restore to the time before you downloaded the new updates.

Always create a restore point before you download any M$ updates. Usually it works if the updates cause issues, but there are times they integrate so deep you have to reformat and reinstall your OS. Hope this helps, Robin

 

hey backtothebeat, I HAD THE EXACT PROBLEM AS YOU!!!

I decided to reinstall Vista about two nights ago, and after I finished reinstalling Vista I tried to play CS 1.6, and I could only get around the 30 fps range ( just like you). I was afraid at the time that reinstalling Vista was a bad choice, but I guess it was the updates, it wasn't my fault!

Well, I have some kind of bad news/good news, I had to reinstall Vista again, and CS finally runs at 100 fbs, and after reinstalling Vista, Vista is just a lot faster. So if you have an external HDD, like I do, reinstalling will be very simple.

And if you do decide to reinstall Vista, go with the 163.16 drivers from laptopvideo2go.com, Available Here, and make you get the Modded INF file and just put it in the extracted driver folder. These drivers so far work great with CS.
Tell me how this works.

-larson

 

Thanks for your help guys! I ended up system restoring and then downloading and installing all the updates again. This time things went smoothly without a problem.

I do have a question though. My processor is a C2D 2.0ghz and the CPU Usage is rather high for the first 5 or so minutes after startup. Is this normal? On my P4 3.2ghz desktop PC my usage is only high for the first minute or so after XP loads but after that it drops down to anywhere from 3-1%. In Vista however it stays at higher load percentages for longer.