well as the title suggested. it sometimes hangs up my pc when i am playing games. it says the driver got error. I have tried to reinstall it many times but the same result. Who else use this card ? pls tell me ur result , or help me find a new driver. tks

try to reinstall ur winxp !
are you sure that your problem is for ur graphic card ?

I had a problem with my pc one year ago (freezing for 10secs) that is for DVD-ROM (plextor px 116A3) lol !

Nope..this is evidently a driver conflict..u need not take a step as drastic as reinstalling windows just yet..try the following..

First download this utility called Driver Cleaner Pro


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And latest drivers for your graphics card..


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Install Driver Cleaner Pro.

Uninstall your current graphics driver,and then boot into safe mode.Run Driver Cleaner and clean all ATi drivers.

Now restart your pc in normal mode,install the new drivers,and there's around 90% chance your problem will be solved.

I hope you have the latest version of Direct X (9.0c with February update) installed.

Which catalyst are u using ???? Are ur mobo drivers up-to-date ??

P.J. no the message says that the graphic cards r not suitable, even with i reinstall windows.

LayZ ,thx 4 the program i will try it right away.

Deathvirus_me, my cataylst version is CATALYST CATCH, 2D Version, 6.14.10.6467, Packaging Version, 8.04-040629a-016588E AMI

I'm using ATI gecube 9550ee. You just need to use another ATI driver. You can download the lastest version at this address:

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Omega drivers are optimized for PC games.

Hope this helps.

Well i did as LayZ said, and it had not given much problem now , but it will still hangs and random time and the screen resoultion changed to 800*600

Eminem I would really appreciate a little more detail mate...


Deathvirus_me, my cataylst version is CATALYST CATCH, 2D Version, 6.14.10.6467, Packaging Version, 8.04-040629a-016588E AMI

Is this the driver you were using previously?Or r u using this driver currently?Have you changed your driver at all like I suggested??

Please download and try ATi CAtalyst 6.3 for Windows 2000/XP/MCE from here...be sure to follow the steps I had mentioned in my earlier post again...clean all existing ATi drivers with driver cleaner..


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This is an official WHQL logo'd driver and has support for ATi Radeon 9X00 series.

i faced this problem one time when i install windows xp pro sp2 on ati radeon 9700 embeded sony vaio notebook. i tried reinstall windows and the latest ati driver, still cannot, when install xp other than sp2 then is ok. Finally i found out the problem is the ati driver problem. try go to device manager, the system devices, and look for ati AGP, then manually replace the driver with the something like pci-pci steer.. cant really remember.. But it's really settle the problem after this fix.. hopefully it help. I will make it more specify when i able to find it in my database

well i change to the newest ATI Cataylst as u suggested. Though it is MORE stable, but its still not very stable, because game randomly hangs and u need 2 press ALT+TAB then the screen changes 2 800*600 resolution. I say it improve a lot becoz the former driver when hanged, i need 2 restart computer.

no... no need to format.. i had the exact same problem with my amd athlon 1700+.. which is still being used by my bro... for this problem i did everytthin from formatting, to motherboard check up , to ram change to power supply change... but still the problem remained and the comp kept restarting while gaming... finally what i did was plugged the comp directly without any stablizer or ups... and found out that the problem was there in the stablizer... and now it works perfectly without restarting even while gaming... so i think the problem exists in ur power supply or ups or stabilizer... try it and let us know

PoWeR suPpLy?? i dun tink so....... the newest catalyst driver got a function called VPU recover, i tink tats wat make it more stable.

and CANDCCOM can u make it more specific ? Thx

hi mate, same problem as mine at ATi Radeon 9500 pRo..

I have figure it out and my current solution to that was.. switch to Service Pack 1..

I think for me, thats the only choice, most of us using Radeons has problem in Using at Service Pack 2.. Even the Catalyst 6.3 doesnt solved the problem.. If not autorestart, it hangs.. or the blue screen of death comes out..

I've been crazy for almost 3weeks just to know whats the real problem is.. and tried every OS i have, and only OS that has the problem is SP2 of XP.. I have searched every forum and found out that we are not the only one who have problems lyk that.. I think its driver error on SP2 or what..? And yet i haven't found any solutions for that..

Theres a new version of Catalyst which is v6.4, which i haven't tried yet. and still found out on different forums that there are still problems..

Or mate just incase, try this if it will help, download Driver Cleaner Pro which will clean all ATi remaining installation then start in a new set of driver, try 6.4. don't install the ATi Control Panel and disable AGP Fast write. Disable the Shadowing feature of smartgard.. and still if not worked... change.. no choice hehe~ :D

Also try the newest ATi Omega Drivers..

some says install the past drivers of ATi which i haven't tried yet.. bcause im sick and tired of reformating my pc again.. (consumes time..)
maybe some other time.. again..

mate if uve found any solution to that please let me know :)

ok, just now i already posted the solution on neenee's post. Then only i realized that i should actually post the solution in this post which the title show the actual problem. Ok, as i said, there is 2 options, one downgrade to sp1. second, follow the following instruction (it works for bunch of people):

Right click-mouse over My Computer
Properties
Hardware(Tab)
Device Manager(button)
Click [+] next to System devices
right-mouse on CPU to AGP Controller (or whatever your controller is called, mine was SiS AGP)
Update Driver(button)

Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)
Next(button)
Select Don't search. I will choose the driver to install.
Next(button)
Select PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
Next(button)
Finish(button)
Reboot.

Please let me know or pm me if this works for you..
Good luck (thanks to cobrakaun)

Candccom i tried ur method, i will post result in a few days. ThX

nevermind182004, i WUZ using sp1 be4 and same result only... AtI really sux .. tats y its cheaper, oso i will try d omega driver, seems like a cure.


TO ALL WHO BOTHER HELPING ME , A BIG THANKS TO ALL

Candccom, ur trick doesn`t work, it lags up my comp,anyway i tink ur trick is for PCI Express cards only. Anyway i found the solution myself, that is use ATI Catalyst 6.4 dled from the website.

PLS CLOSE MY THREAD. AND THX TO ALL WHO HELP

do u mean that ATi catalyst 6.4 solve the prob?? well that's a wrap~! gonna try it too.. thanks~!

catalyst 6.4 DO solve the problem and its more stable now

Anyway em1n2m, nice to hear that your problem solved. Now the thread closed.