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Offline wrag

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« on: September 28, 2006, 03:31:15 PM »
I think I may have a bad windows XP cd?  May have started about, or over, a year ago?  It's taken all this time to possibly narrow this down to what it may be.  My son's copy seems fine.  No troubles at all.  My Daughter in law's seems fine as well.

I repeatedly have an error when trying to install ATI drivers.

Can't recall the file name.  The file name is always the same though.

It's a windows XP file.

Causes several games I have to NOT work.  They bow up with a blue screen ati2vag error.

This happens with the old ATI 9800 Pro 128 card

OR

it casued  a x1600 512 video card to go into sleep mode even though I had sleep mode turned off?????

The card would work fine for awhile then it would start going into sleep mode sooner and sooner after installing the video drivers.  Worked fine if I left the drivers off????????

I've uninstalled, and set the hard drive up several different ways.  It's a WD 250.  Set it up divided into 5 drives of 50 each. Set it up as 1 100 and 1 150 and hasn't seemed to change a thing.  Still getting the same problems with the video cards.

Note I've had this problem with my old Asus motherboard and am having this problem with the new ECS motherboard.

Fortunately AH has worked fine, or seemed to BUT...............

In order to fiind the name of the bad file I'm going to have to uninstall and reinstall the video card again and watch for the name.
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« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2006, 04:05:47 PM »
Just a wild guess but did you completely uninstall the old drivers first?  I've had problems before related to this and it could be causing your problems.

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Offline wrag

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« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2006, 09:39:58 PM »
UNinstalled everything using add remove programs and then went into safemode and removed everything using Drive Cleaner pro.

Downloaded and installed latest DirectX files.  Reinstalled vid card.

Seemed to have fixed it?

BUT............

happened again after about 3 hours.

MS sent a message either install latest drivers (I have already) or reduce video acceleration.

Gonna try reducing vid acce............

Thing is, so far,everything works fine when I'm in AH?
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« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2006, 11:44:54 AM »
Hi wrag, if its the windows cd then its pretty easy to check, compare the archive files with a diffrent windows cd which has the same version of windows. If you say its not on your sons cd try to extrakt the file from that cd and put it in place of yours, keeping a backup of yours.
Also might use a file compare tool to compair the files.

Is it only on the one computer?
Then it might be a diffrent issue, can be faulty motherboard, bugged bios version, to aggressive settings for the graphics card slot.
Since you had the same bug on two diffrent cards i would suspect that its not the card.
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« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2006, 04:10:24 PM »
I've had the same bug with 2 different vid cards and 2 different cpu's and 2 different MB's.   Even after repeated total wipes of the HD's and new installs of XP.

That's why I'm thinkin it possibley the windows CD or the CD drive?  Replaced CD drive once already.

Kinda hard to believe the HD is bad but that could be the case.  Thing is I have 2 HD's and can't seem to fix the problem with downloads and installs from either one.

OR i have, for a very long time, a really nasty trojan/virus/????

Tried the accel thing.  Didn't make any difference, other then jittery video.  Still went south with the same error message.  "ati2dvag" seems to be going into a loop?

Even installed latest DX stuff trying to fix it.
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