jimmayor007

Here is the latest list of Hardware that is / is not compatible with Windows Vista as of Sept. 1st, 2007. I have had to use this list many times and felt it may be of great help to other Vista owners.



Motherboards
Fully Vista Compliant motherboards (all drivers installed and working)

ABIT

NF7-S v2.0 (sil3112r not included on dvd, raid boot rom must be enabled in bios/ Other drivers loaded post install via update)

ASUS

A7N8X v2
A7N8X-E Deluxe (with additional updates from Microsoft Post installation)(32-bit)
K8V (32 bit)
P4P800 Deluxe (32 bit)
P5WD2
P5WD2-Premium
A8N-SLI Deluxe (Vista RC1 64 bits)
A8N-SLI Premium (Vista RC1 64 bits)
P5ND2-SLI Deluxe (Vista RC1 64 bits)
P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe (32 bit)

DFI

LanParty UT nF3 250Gb (32 bit & 64 bit)
nF4 Infinity (32 bit & 64 bit)

ECS (see also Elitegroup below)

N2U400-A nForce2 (32 bit)
RS480-M

GIGABYTE


GA-965P-DQ6 (32 bit)
GA-945GM-S2 (32 bit) (64bit) both smooth install on triple boot with W2K
GA-8I945PLGE-RH (32bit) Vista installs it's own drivers
GA-8IPE1000 (32-bit) Vista has all it's own drivers and even the Realtek Audio Program
GA-M59SLI-S5 (32 bit & 64 Bit) Vista installs it's own drivers
GA-K8N ULTRA-SLI (32 bit) Vista installs it's own drivers
GA-K8N51GMF-9 (32 bit & 64 bits) Vista installs it's own drivers through Windows Update
GA-K8N51GMF-9-RH (32 bit & 64 bits) Vista installs it's own drivers through Windows Update

INTELL

T.B.D.

MSI
MSI 945 PL Neo F (64bit)

Shuttle
FN41U

Elitegroup
RS480

Graphic Cards

AGP:
ATI Radeon 9600XT (128MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)
BFG 7600 GS OC 512mb (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 (128MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)
Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically)
Nvidia GeForce FX 5900XT (128MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)
Nvidia Geforce 6600GT (128 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit & 64 bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6200 (64bit mem) (128 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)
XFX Geforce 6800XT (256MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)

PCI-Express

ATI Radeon x300 (128MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)
ATI Radeon x600 (256MB)
ATI Radeon x800 GTO (256MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
ATI Radeon x850 XT (256MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
ATI Radeon x1800 XT (256MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (64 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6600 (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6600GT (128 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6700GT (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6800 (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6800GS (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6800GT (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 7300GS (128 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 7400 (128 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit) (turbocache not working correctly, system only shows physical memory amount)
Nvidia GeForce 7600GT (256MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) 32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 7800GTX (256MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 7900GT (512MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit & 64 Bits)

...read the full guide with pics here