Vista Inompatible Hardwares with heavy problems

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Printer / Scanner

Canon Canoscan LiDE 35. Installs with XP drivers but doesn't appear in the scanner and camera list

Lexmark Z617. Appears to install using XP drivers, and creates printer entry, but cannot connect to printer through USB. Device manager shows bad driver.

Samsung ML-1740. Shows driver installed in 64 bit, but no support. Remove driver and Vista 64 wants to reinstall the same driver. This device works properly in RC1 x86, see above, though the x86 driver must be used.

HP Scanjet 3400c Installs whit the WInXP Driver but doesnt work like image device in vista – Same for HP ScanJet 4600 series.

Network Cards
T.B.D.

Sound Cards

Creative Labs Audigy 4 Model SB0106 (64bit)
All M-Audio products specifically firewire 4/10

TV Cards

MSI

TV@nywhere Master (MS-8606) (detected by Vista as "Hauppauge WinTV 88x (unused Audio function)" but not detected as a TV Tuner in WMC; also no Radio)

Compro

Compro PVR TV/FM. (Detected corectly by Vista but will not work at all. Using XP driver, it will give a "No saa7134 Driver" error)

Imaging Devices

Mikomi Webcam with Mic (SN9C103) - driver install fails : not enough storage available ? (32 Bit)
Tevion - Medion pc30 - 8508i Webcam installs Audio but video fails not enough storage available ? (32 Bit)

Other Devices

Uniden Win1200 Windows Live Messenger Dual Phone (No Drivers for Vista)
Vguard 7146 Serial Device (VGC4-XP CCTV Card) Drivers will manualy install but Cheatau XP Eats 50% cpu while running under any compatability mode

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Problems which can be solved

Motherboards

MSI

K8T Neo (MS-6702)
Promise 20378 on-board SATA - Unable to load driver when installing Vista RC1 or once installed.
Build 5600 Solution: Disable in bios and use only the on-board VIA VT8237 SATA until Promise are able to supply a compatible driver.
Build 5728 Solution: I was able to get the Promise 20378 Controller to function with the Win NT driver. I'm certain this didn't work with build 5600. It seems to work fine.
Build 5728 Solution (x64): Setup a 1 disk Raid0 in the BIOS and load the Promise 20378 Windows x64 driver when setting up drives during Vista install.

Realtek 8110C/8110S LAN - Conflict may exist between on-board LAN and Via VT8237 SATA when booting.
Solution: Disable Realtek LAN in bios and install LAN card. You may have to manually clear the CMOS with the on-board jumper to gain access to the bios to disable the on-board LAN.

Realtek ALC655 - Vista will automatically install VIA AC '97 sound driver. General sound issues such as skipping and hiss may be heard.
Solution: Install Realtek AC 97' Vista Beta Sound Driver (6156) [Note: Tested Beta Sound Driver fine in build 5728]

A major problem with many systems with SATA Controllers is that sound, specifically when playing MP3s, will skip when using the new drivers supplied with Vista RC1.
Solution: "Downgrade" the driver for your SATA Controller, the Via VT8237 in this instance, for a fairly recent XP driver. Sound skips are now a thing of the past.
Note: This problem has been fixed with build 5728 so there is no need to change the Via VT 8237 driver from the installed MS Vista driver.

Graphic Cards

AGP:

ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 9600XT (128MB) (Aero Glass Compatible) (32-bit)
TV/Video capture functionality inoperable. No drivers yet will detect the Rage Theater chip (NTativrv01) on the card. All other functionality works just fine.

ATI Radeon X850XT ViVo (256MB) (Aero Glass Compatible) (32-bit)
Video capture inoperable : same problem as ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 9600XT (see above)

PCI-Express:
Nvidia PCIe x16 Quadro (64MB+Shared) (Download alpha driver from manufacture and Enable Aero Glass) (64 Bit) (working fine, but a bit slow when working with many running windows)



PCI:
T.B.D.

IDE/S-ATA/RAID-Controllers
sil0680 chipset Ultra ATA 133 PCI (download drivers from SIIG Inc :: Home) (32-bit)

Network Cards
NetGear 108 MBPS Wireless PCI Adapter (WG311T) (64 bit) - Works only with the Atheros AR5002G Driver

Sound Cards
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music (Use Beta Vista drivers from Creative site, rear speakers not working)
RealTek ALC850 AC'97 Audio Controller Use driver from RealTek's site or Vista 5728 x86 has a built in driver.

TV Cards
Terratec Cinergy T² USB DVB-T adapter : works with Vista Media Center using BDA driver v 2.3.0.24 but prevents computer getting into hibernation or sleep mode. Must be first disconnected before getting into these modes.

Audio Devices
T.B.D.

Printer / Scanner

Epson Perfection 1640SU (install twain driver 5.71A from Epson Site (may take 4 tries but eventually takes) you must power down and then repower scanner before each use to get it to work) (32-bit)

Epson Stylus CX7800 (printer status monitor crashes, printing is OK, scanning is OK) (32-bit)

QMS Magicolor 2300 DL (works fine using usb interface, crown print monitor will install but will not work) (32-bit)

HP All-in-one 2170 series: Windows recognizes it natively, but specific software stalls at 63%, when you need to plug in the scanner, it never gets recognized. You can scan through the built in "scanners and Faxes wizard", but no editable text.

Samsung ML-1740: Vista will not be able to automatically find driver. Download file "20040130094447375_ML-1740_Print.exe" from SAMSUNG's Digital World. Choose install option without connecting printer. Once driver successfully installs, go to Control Panel > Printers, right click ML-1740, go to properties. Finally, navigate to Ports tab and switch to USB port if necessary.

UMax Astra 3450: Install the VistaScan V 3.75 driver and the XP Patch from the UMax site. The USB Scanner will still be flagged in the Device Manager. Re-install manually, and select the USB Scanner and the driver install will complete.

Tier 1 Systems

HP xw9300 (Tyan K8WES2895) - This was a clean install (HD Low-Leveled) and not an update/upgrade and first done with BIOS 2.05 then 2.06, factory 2GB ECC RAM, Seagate 15K RPM u320 SCSI HD, Opteron 250 Single Processor installed, NV-285 pulled and Saphirre 1300Pro w/ 256MB PCIe video card installed. Get latest NVidia RC1 Beta Drivers along with ATI's RC1 Beta Drivers and expand to removable media (e.g. Floppy, USB, CD-ROM), choose CUSTOM for install and search media for driver locations, choose specific drivers required and then proceed with install. Before first reboot of OS after it has done a complete installation and up for first time, install complete ATi package, then re-boot. This xw9300 was the only system, out of three, with non-factory video-card and installation took six time to get correct. Previously, this system was used for Beta 2 release and had a pbATi PowerColor x600 PCIe video card and the install was flawless. The Saphirre x1300Pro has been used in this system for nearly two months now while running Vista Beta2 without problems and was also done from a clean install. (x64)