Those PC users PK, in the composition of system in which enters motherboard with chipsets series NVIDIA nForce3 and video card from ATI production , with the installation of Windows Vista they should expects unpleasant surprise. According to the point ¹737-24498 in the knowledge base on site AMD, the attempt to install the driver catalyst for the accelerator ATI with AGP interface on motherboard series nForce3 result in error with code 43. Further work video card is possible only in regime PCI with the turning off of the functions 3d- acceleration. Accordingly, in this case it is not necessary to speak about aero support .
AMD notes that same problems could encounter the users of motherboard on VIA and SiS chipset ; however, these producers already released new drivers versions, which remove the problem.
But NVIDIA, although knows about existence of this incompatibility, but do not works on its elimination . In the list of chipsets witch officially support vista are only nForce4, nForce5 and nForce 600. The production of WHQL drivers is not planned for earlier products.
The position of producer is difficult to divide since this chipsets family is not even three years old, and motherboard with nForce3 250Gb are sold even today . For their happy possessors, which decided to update the operating system remains only to change the motherboard or video card.:-(