8600M GS on ASUS F3SV

[Guest eph]

Dear all,

I received my new ASUS F3SV notebook 10 days ago, based on the new Santa Rosa platform (new Intel chipset).

Like all new laptops it comes with Vista installed, which does not let me run my 3D CAD applications in any decent way.

All hardware does work perfectly here.

Furthermore I plain don't like Vista so went back to XP. All hardware works perfectly in XP, except for the graphics card.

Until now I have been unable to detect my Geforce 8600M GS, because the VgaSave driver takes over and conflicts with the Mobile Intel PM965/GM965/GL960 Express PCI Express Root Port - 2A01.

In the VgaSave properties it shows the following Conflicting device list:

Input/Output Range 03B0 - 03BB used by:
 Mobile Intel® PM965/GM965/GL960 Express PCI Express Root Port - 2A01
Input/Output Range 03C0 - 03DF used by:
 Mobile Intel® PM965/GM965/GL960 Express PCI Express Root Port - 2A01
Memory Range 000A0000 - 000BFFFF used by:
 Mobile Intel® PM965/GM965/GL960 Express PCI Express Root Port - 2A01

The driver itself boots as some kind of service, so it doesn't show up in the Device Manager.

As a result XP doesn't even list any display drivers that I can upgrade, neither does RivaTuner detect the graphics card.

I tried slipstreaming the 101.19 ForceWare from ASUS into my WinXP SP2 install CD - no luck.

162.18 modded INF same result - stays undetected, VgaSave takes over.

Any suggestions on how to get my card detected?

I've looked all over the web, but found nothing yet.. :s

Please help!

eph

[rrscape]

hi, same problem, had you solve it yet?

i'm able to offer you some token.

thanks

[Tenseb]

same problem -_- only since few days, it make me crazy