I have now tried 5......yes 5 drivers for my radeon 7000 graphics card. All but one 
causes random restarts and the one that doesn't, won't run OPEN GL so my games won't 
run :-( 
They were all for XP and took an age to download using my sslloowww modem. The system 
ran fine on 98SE but has gone real bad since I 'upgraded' to XP Pro.
Its obviously the driver, even XP tells me so on reboot, so where can I get one that 
works???
I tried all 5 at different stages of update from Microsoft and NON made any difference 
to the problem!!! It crashes whether I update XP or not.
My system is AMD 1600, 256mgs Ram, ATI Radeon 7000, 40 gig HD.
PLEASE HELP !! or the XP CD is going to learn how to fly and never darken my door 
again !!!!!

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I don't know if this is your problem, but you can't update ATI drivers without first completely uninstalling the old driver and control panel. The ATI setup creates an ATI Directory on the boot drive that contains the setup files. This has to go, as well. So, uninstall the ATI driver from Device Manager. Refuse the reboot option. Delete everything in the ATI Directory. Reboot. XP should struggle for a minute and then ask for the setup CD. Cancel. Run the ATI setup for the driver. Decline the reboot option. Install the new control panel. Then reboot. That should do it.


On Friday, May 16, 2003 at 10:01 am, Homer wrote:

>I have now tried 5......yes 5 drivers for my radeon 7000 graphics card. All but 
one 
>causes random restarts and the one that doesn't, won't run OPEN GL so my games won't 
>run :-( 
>They were all for XP and took an age to download using my sslloowww modem. The system 
>ran fine on 98SE but has gone real bad since I 'upgraded' to XP Pro.
>Its obviously the driver, even XP tells me so on reboot, so where can I get one 
that 
>works???
>I tried all 5 at different stages of update from Microsoft and NON made any difference 
>to the problem!!! It crashes whether I update XP or not.
>My system is AMD 1600, 256mgs Ram, ATI Radeon 7000, 40 gig HD.
>PLEASE HELP !! or the XP CD is going to learn how to fly and never darken my door 
>again !!!!!

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Thanks for the advice, but I tried that and it makes no difference either. I installed 
DirectX9, I am suspecting this is the cause not the drivers. Any other ideas are 
welcome.






On Friday, May 16, 2003 at 9:26 pm, Zeb wrote:
>I don't know if this is your problem, but you can't update ATI drivers without first 
>completely uninstalling the old driver and control panel. The ATI setup creates 
an 
>ATI Directory on the boot drive that contains the setup files. This has to go, as 
>well. So, uninstall the ATI driver from Device Manager. Refuse the reboot option. 
>Delete everything in the ATI Directory. Reboot. XP should struggle for a minute 
and 
>then ask for the setup CD. Cancel. Run the ATI setup for the driver. Decline the 
>reboot option. Install the new control panel. Then reboot. That should do it.
>

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The same thing is happening to me. I've tried to play Warcraft 3 and everytime the driver dies on me and my computer shuts down!!!! I hate ATI!!! I have downloaded 4 different drivers, and they all do not work.

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Ohhooo, i have the same problem... after instalation of winXP complete, on "Aplying Settings" screen, my computer stops responding...


On win98SE the video card is working well, but i have sick of 98's Ilegal Operation's.

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Hi Folks, I never did sort the problem out, The XP CD was thrown away and the software uninstalled. I went back to 98SE and now my mother board seems to be going wierd...........by restarting randomly !!!!!!! A ceremonial burning is next :o)))


On Friday, May 16, 2003 at 10:01 am, Homer wrote:

>I have now tried 5......yes 5 drivers for my radeon 7000 graphics card. All but 
one 
>causes random restarts and the one that doesn't, won't run OPEN GL so my games won't 
>run :-( 
>They were all for XP and took an age to download using my sslloowww modem. The system 
>ran fine on 98SE but has gone real bad since I 'upgraded' to XP Pro.
>Its obviously the driver, even XP tells me so on reboot, so where can I get one 
that 
>works???
>I tried all 5 at different stages of update from Microsoft and NON made any difference 
>to the problem!!! It crashes whether I update XP or not.
>My system is AMD 1600, 256mgs Ram, ATI Radeon 7000, 40 gig HD.
>PLEASE HELP !! or the XP CD is going to learn how to fly and never darken my door 
>again !!!!!

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Don't know if this is an issue for you but is the inside of your case well ventilated? Got a descent cooling solution? I ask since heat is getting to be such a problem now days. A new vid card will run a little hotter than your old one causing everything in your system to get a little warmer. Check your system and CPU temps. Let us know how it does.

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Hi Occy You seem to have found the answer to my problem. I took the heatsink off the processor and removed the fan from the heatsink. The fins on the heatsink were packed full of dust !!!!! I cleaned them out and my machine has been running now for 24 hours with no wierd goings on.


On Wednesday, July 9, 2003 at 8:35 am, occy wrote:
>Don't know if this is an issue for you but is the inside of your case well ventilated?
> Got a descent cooling solution? I ask since heat is getting to be such a problem
>now days. A new vid card will run a little hotter than your old one causing everything
>in your system to get a little warmer. Check your system and CPU temps.
>
>Let us know how it does.
>
>

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hi folks, i'm still having trouble with my ATI drivers on XP pro: my radeon 7000 worked fine on 2k, but xp can't handle the drivers. up until yesterday I had it running on the above driver that didn't support openGL, but I needed to work with 3d software again. I have spent all day trying to get it running again, and am now stuck with one of my two diplays running on a generic vga driver. All of the Catalyst drivers freeze the machine on the xp logo/night rider screen. my system is a 1ghz athlon, 512mb pc133 ram, xp pro (latest everything), system running off of a 18gig 10k scsi uw drive, agp card is a generic radeon 7000 twin display 64mb vram (non ddr). thanks, tobias


On Saturday, July 12, 2003 at 4:41 am, Homer wrote:
>Hi Occy
>You seem to have found the answer to my problem. I took the heatsink off the processor
>and removed the fan from the heatsink. The fins on the heatsink were packed full
>of dust !!!!! I cleaned them out and my machine has been running now for 24 hours
>with no wierd goings on.
>
>

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What is your opinion about http://go.radarsync.com, RadarSync new web drivers and application update services?


On Friday, May 16, 2003 at 10:01 am, Homer wrote:
>
>I have now tried 5......yes 5 drivers for my radeon 7000 graphics card. All but one
>causes random restarts and the one that doesn't, won't run OPEN GL so my games won't
>run :-(
>They were all for XP and took an age to download using my sslloowww modem. The system
>ran fine on 98SE but has gone real bad since I 'upgraded' to XP Pro.
>Its obviously the driver, even XP tells me so on reboot, so where can I get one that
>works???
>I tried all 5 at different stages of update from Microsoft and NON made any difference
>to the problem!!! It crashes whether I update XP or not.
>My system is AMD 1600, 256mgs Ram, ATI Radeon 7000, 40 gig HD.
>PLEASE HELP !! or the XP CD is going to learn how to fly and never darken my door
>again !!!!! http://go.radarsync.com

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