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I'm on a pretty-fresh install of Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit. I don't know the exact chipset of this board, but it's an Asus brand with a hybrid NVIDIA chipset (different southbridge, total of 3 PCI express x16 slots) and an Intel quad-core CPU.
To make the image look better on my 52" LCD TV, I increased the text DPI to 120 in Display Properties. Changing the DPI setting still requires a restart in Vista, as it did in WinXP. After restarting, I noticed that there is a "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in my tray, which has not been there for the week since my install. I have seen this in the past on previous Vista and XP installs. It was attributed to an early NVIDIA driver, which left a flag in the registry that indicated the wrong type of ATA controller to Windows. I had already restarted my system earlier to organize the external cords and the icon had not appeared, so something must have triggered it on that last restart. I checked to see if Windows Update had somehow installed an updated storage driver, but it had not. In fact, the same "XML" update that I had neglected to install all day long remained. The installed update history shows that the NVIDIA SATA storage driver was updated on 12/15/2007...several days ago.
I just can't figure why this annoying problem would come back spontaneously. Even if the storage controller type is flagged incorrectly by the driver, Windows should know better than to list the system volume as "removable". *grumble...
To make the image look better on my 52" LCD TV, I increased the text DPI to 120 in Display Properties. Changing the DPI setting still requires a restart in Vista, as it did in WinXP. After restarting, I noticed that there is a "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in my tray, which has not been there for the week since my install. I have seen this in the past on previous Vista and XP installs. It was attributed to an early NVIDIA driver, which left a flag in the registry that indicated the wrong type of ATA controller to Windows. I had already restarted my system earlier to organize the external cords and the icon had not appeared, so something must have triggered it on that last restart. I checked to see if Windows Update had somehow installed an updated storage driver, but it had not. In fact, the same "XML" update that I had neglected to install all day long remained. The installed update history shows that the NVIDIA SATA storage driver was updated on 12/15/2007...several days ago.
I just can't figure why this annoying problem would come back spontaneously. Even if the storage controller type is flagged incorrectly by the driver, Windows should know better than to list the system volume as "removable". *grumble...
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