Corrupt driver?

[Farabomb]

Seems that my Radeon does not like me anymore. I installed the Catyalst drivers and now it's driving me up a wall. When I turn on the computer it's a crapshoot how far it will get before it stops and all I get are vertical lines on the screen and I have to reboot. It happens anywhere from right after POST to I can last 2 or 3 min in XP before it hangs. I have a old PCI card in here now and it's working fine. I'll try it later in my KT7 and see if I get the same. I'm thinking corrupt driver but I don't know. Anyone??

[Old sptw]

it seems corrupt driver for me, Farabomb.

[Farabomb]

But how shall I clean it? won't there be traces in the registry?

[Old sptw]

Try to remove it on "Add or remove programs Windows section" Farabomb, after that install the last good one.About a traces, yes, there's a little chance that it continue to be on registry.

[Farabomb]

Well I just tried and it gave me :321: won't let me uninstall.

No biggie I have to reinstall XP when I get my KX7. I just can't play any games now. :(

[Old sptw]

Hey weird thing :eek: did you try to roll back to the last one good?

[Farabomb]

I had it up long enough to uninstall the drivers but it still happened. The only thing I can think of right now is to try and put the Radeon back in but use the PCI card as output and try to reinstall working drivers.

[Old sptw]

well, there's a way on registry too.It's not so easy because video drivers use to write info on various sections of registry, but take a look on regedit.It use to be on Hkey_Local_Machine>System>ControlSet001 and ControlSet002 and CurrentControlSet>Control>Video.Take care with registry m8.

[Farabomb]

Yea, the registry is a dark and scary place but as long as I export the whole thing I should be safe. I'm still debating if it's worth it being that my KX7 should be here in a week.

[Old sptw]

I know what you mean, Farabomb.I think it's better to wait for your new Kx7.Sorry not help you to fix your problem :(

[Farabomb]

Well I used system restore and so far it looks good. For how long, I don't know. Stay away from the newest drivers on warp2search.

I allways forget why they're beta :aargh!:

[Farabomb]

That was quick.

The Radeon quit in about 10-15 min. Now I'm thinking the card might have gave up and not the drivers. Anyway, Newegg just shipped my KX7 and some Corsair 3000 so I'll have to suffer till wed-thurs and see if it's really the card and not just some sh*tty drivers.

If it turns out that it's the card can anyone suggest a cheap replacement that would equal/surpass my Radeon 64DDR VIVO? I know all about the comming, Newest, Best, most expensive can't even afford but will sell my first born to have it hardware but I forget that there is a low-middle end that is quite good for a little cash.

[Old sptw]

Hi Farabomb,

I'm almost 99% sure that is not a card fault (i could be wrong here).It's a driver fault.A few weeks ago i had a problem with my geforce2 (4bits color only) and the only solution was fresh OS install again.Wait for your new rigs to check it.

[Farabomb]

I'm hoping it's not the card. I'd rather not shell out $100+ right now. I did my shopping for this month allready. ;)

[mdzcpa]

Sorry if I missed this earlier in the thread, but did you say you already tried a system restore under Win XP?

[Farabomb]

I did a system restore last night and it worked for 15-20 min before doing it again. I checked the drivers after the system restore and they were the first catlyst drivers (I think) so maybe my card doesn't like the catlyst drivers. I'll find out when I get my KX7.

On a good note with 1x 256 2100 I can now get my A7V266-E up to 157fsb :D

I can't play games so I'll see if I can squeeze a little more out of this board before I retire it for a bit. :)