Vista won't install drivers

I've searched through but maybe this has been answered elsewhere. Anyways I had an iMac intel based from 2008, it broke down recently and since it was under warranty they gave me a new one free. I had bootcamp with vista on it and till the end of it's life it worked well enough for windows. New computer comes (specs are 27 inch imac with the basics seems to be the newest model they have on the store,) well everything backs up fine from time machine, I proceed to partition it and run the vista install. Plugging in the snow leopard disc vista installs the updates then when it reboots it black screens and crashes. So after a few reinstalls and deletions I put in the original disc I got with my original iMac that was the one I used on my original bootcamp. Well the drivers say they install but the computer does not flash or beep and when it restarts there is no sign of the video card taking effect, basically the drivers don't work or they aren't getting installed.

Trouble with Apple's graphic boot camp drivers. It has gotten better with the latest iMacs and latest OS X OEM DVD with newer Boot Camp 3.x drivers than what there was.... I assume it came with new DVD for OS X, right?
I haven't kept up but you do need to uninstall graphic driver and let Windows update/install its own and then you can use ATI Catalyst 10.x
The problems from last fall - and no longer true, but this is how it use to be. THERE ARE POSTS regarding iMac 27" graphic drivers around.
A tip and workaround for how to get ATI mobility/laptop drivers so that Windows no longer thinks the ATI is a desktop card:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11286987
Summary (my own edit steps):
1. Install Boot Camp 3.0 and upgrade to 3.1
2. Uninstall graphic drivers and run Driver Sweeper
http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/
instead of:
removing the crashing driver by going into windows 7 setup via its install cd and deleting the ati driver manaully
3. Install ATI Mobility (link)
4. Uninstall ATI (Programs control panel?) Device Manager (rollback; uninstall?)
5. Device Nanager: update driver and BROWSE BACK to 8.681 (the original apple driver that was causing freezes and purple artifacts) - navigate to /Apple/Drivers/ATI
(Apple uses) a 4850 card in the iMac, its modified a bit for apple. Enough that desktop drivers don't work, and modded-for-laptop desktop drivers don't work either.
Now the upshot of using modified drivers is that it FORCES the catalyst control panel to be installed, meaning you get a few more options to mess around with the card.
I couldn't use the original apple drive, it locks up, the newer one had banding, the newer radeon drivers direct form ATI wouldn't work until they were modded and then they cause black screens.
SO the solution, as obscure as it was, was to download ACTUAL mobility Radeon drivers - version 10.3 still, but made for laptops.
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
THESE drivers I was able to install - and here is where things changed.
THIS driver changed they way windows saw the video card in device manager.
As I mentioned before, its NOT a desktop card, its a modified laptop card, but installing mac drivers makes windows THINK its a full desktop card, and running the original 8.681 driver crashed it.
Once installed 10.3 LAPTOP driver it now appeared in device manager as a MOBILITY card.
These Steps "should" work:
delete ATI driver manually
reinstall apple driver after that and see if that works,
otherwise try the steps above
(mod drivers, remove via windows recovery off setup disk, install laptop drivers, reinstall apple driver over it)

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