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System Name | I call it "Bitch5.2", but its real name is "Lokotomy420" |
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Processor | AMD Athlon64 3800+, 939 Venice |
Motherboard | ASUS A5N8X |
Cooling | Stock AMD cooling HSF |
Memory | 2x 1024MB Corsair XMS DDR400 |
Video Card(s) | ATI Radeon X1800XL, 256MB with Zalmann CU-77v HSF |
Storage | 4x SATA @ 7200RPM, Western Digital320, Maxtor300, Samsung250, Seagate200 |
Display(s) | Acer 22" LCD, AL2216W |
Case | Old Chenbro case, ugly and heavy |
Audio Device(s) | M-Audio Delta1010LT 24/96 |
Power Supply | Generic, don't remember the wattage but it runs fine |
Software | Audio software, couple of games, Windows XP SP2... |
hello. i sit here, broken-hearted. tried everything but it only farted.
i bought about 6 months ago a connect3d radeon 9550 256MB. yes i know, it was cheap ($70ish). and ever since i bought it, i've been having major problems. i'm gonna try to be as specific as i can.
first of all, here are my system specs:
amd athlon64 3000+
512mb 400mhz kingston ram
200gb hard disk
msi k8m800 motherboard
dvd burner on one bay, cd burner on the other
winxp pro (no sp2)
when i first installed the video card, the drivers that came with it didn't quite work. i downloaded newer ones (this was in december), and after about 3 days of trying to get it to work, all i got was sudden system freezes and then messages saying that my VPU crashed and had been restored. i couldn't change my resolution because whenever i would access the display properties from the control panel (or right-clicking on the desktop), one of window's system DLL's (i believe it was run32.dll) would crash.
i contacted ati at this point, and they weren't very helpful. all they said was i should get the newest drivers for my motherboard. i didn't do it, instead i went to the beach for a week, and when i came back, it didn't crash again and i was able to use it normally.
now, it seemed to work. i use my computer mainly for making music (DAW - digital audio workstation). i would experience some strange crashes when using fruityloops. the system would freeze, the display would stop working (the green light on my monitor would turn yellow and it would do that sound it does when it changes from one resolution to the other). sometimes, i was lucky, and i would get the VPU crash message, close it, save my work and restart. other times, i wouldn't get this message, the computer just rebooted.
this was annoying, but i kept saving at all times to avoid losing data. unfortunately, i did lose a WHOLE track i had been working on for about a month, and this made me go insane.
gaming, i would have no problem whatsoever. the card seemed to work fine. splinter cell and quake3 worked just fine, i could reach good resolution levels with good responses. i figured, since the computer doesn't freeze in splinter cell with all this video processing, then maybe the problem is in fruityloops. until it did. it started freezing on splinter cell. same behaviour, display goes to hell and i'm forced to reboot.
now, a couple days ago i downloaded and installed the new catalyst 5.5 drivers, thinking hopefully this might fix my gaming problem AND, please please, my music making problem.
bad idea. the drivers would install just fine, but when rebooting, it would load windows in a garbled display, and i couldn't even move the mouse to blindly change the display to try to fix it. i uninstalled the video drivers. then i installed the ones that came with my video card, and no. didn't work either. i tried with a version i downloaded at some point, which is between the one that came with my video card and the 5.5... no luck.
i figured i would try installing new drivers for my motherboard. i did this, and re-installed catalyst 5.5. upon rebooting, it went into windows at a 800x600 video display mode, but it looked rather strange. like interlaced or something. after less than a minute, everything would aggressively freeze. i can tell it's a hardware-related problem: mouse doesn't move. num lock doesn't turn off. and of course, any keyboard input is futile.
i spent about a day or so running my computer without any display drivers installed. of course, it works fine, but it's like not having my video card. i can't play any game that needs openGL. duh. and the display sucks, whenever i move windows around, the refresh rate is slow and stupid.
i went to connect3d.com for the millionth time this week, and noticed something about .net framework 1.1. it needed to be installed before the drivers. i hadn't seen that. happy, i download the .net framework, and re-download the 5.5 catalyst driver from connect3d.com, hoping it'll work this time.
the installation went fine, but no. windows loaded at 800x600, my display was kind of displaced from my monitor, interlaced-like graphics, and the sudden freeze after a few seconds.
i'm so mad and desperate. right now i'm in safe mode...
i tried everything i could think of, looked for FAQs, related problems in this forum and other forums, but found nothing.
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now, something interesting i can see with safe mode is, that it seems like my drivers don't work at all. when i go to display properties > settings > advanced > adapter, nothing comes up on "adapter style", or information. i click on properties, vgasave properties show up, and on the resource tab where are listed the conflicts, if any, i get the following conflicts:
I/O Range: 03B0 - 03BB used by VIA CPU to AGP2.0 controller
I/O Range: 03C0 - 03DF used by VIA CPU to AGP2.0 controller
Memory Range: 000A0000 - 000BFFFF used by VIA CPU to AGP2.0 controller
of course, bringing up the windows troubleshooter is a load of nonsense.
apparently, my video card isn't listed in the windows HCL (hardware compatibility list), but it was working before!
seriously, i've tried everything i can think of, including taking the video card out, checking the AGP slot for dust, putting it back in (i even did this with love)... and nothing.
am i facing the horrible possibility that my video card is just bad from factory? or is there something i'm skipping?
i would gladly appreciate any help
i bought about 6 months ago a connect3d radeon 9550 256MB. yes i know, it was cheap ($70ish). and ever since i bought it, i've been having major problems. i'm gonna try to be as specific as i can.
first of all, here are my system specs:
amd athlon64 3000+
512mb 400mhz kingston ram
200gb hard disk
msi k8m800 motherboard
dvd burner on one bay, cd burner on the other
winxp pro (no sp2)
when i first installed the video card, the drivers that came with it didn't quite work. i downloaded newer ones (this was in december), and after about 3 days of trying to get it to work, all i got was sudden system freezes and then messages saying that my VPU crashed and had been restored. i couldn't change my resolution because whenever i would access the display properties from the control panel (or right-clicking on the desktop), one of window's system DLL's (i believe it was run32.dll) would crash.
i contacted ati at this point, and they weren't very helpful. all they said was i should get the newest drivers for my motherboard. i didn't do it, instead i went to the beach for a week, and when i came back, it didn't crash again and i was able to use it normally.
now, it seemed to work. i use my computer mainly for making music (DAW - digital audio workstation). i would experience some strange crashes when using fruityloops. the system would freeze, the display would stop working (the green light on my monitor would turn yellow and it would do that sound it does when it changes from one resolution to the other). sometimes, i was lucky, and i would get the VPU crash message, close it, save my work and restart. other times, i wouldn't get this message, the computer just rebooted.
this was annoying, but i kept saving at all times to avoid losing data. unfortunately, i did lose a WHOLE track i had been working on for about a month, and this made me go insane.
gaming, i would have no problem whatsoever. the card seemed to work fine. splinter cell and quake3 worked just fine, i could reach good resolution levels with good responses. i figured, since the computer doesn't freeze in splinter cell with all this video processing, then maybe the problem is in fruityloops. until it did. it started freezing on splinter cell. same behaviour, display goes to hell and i'm forced to reboot.
now, a couple days ago i downloaded and installed the new catalyst 5.5 drivers, thinking hopefully this might fix my gaming problem AND, please please, my music making problem.
bad idea. the drivers would install just fine, but when rebooting, it would load windows in a garbled display, and i couldn't even move the mouse to blindly change the display to try to fix it. i uninstalled the video drivers. then i installed the ones that came with my video card, and no. didn't work either. i tried with a version i downloaded at some point, which is between the one that came with my video card and the 5.5... no luck.
i figured i would try installing new drivers for my motherboard. i did this, and re-installed catalyst 5.5. upon rebooting, it went into windows at a 800x600 video display mode, but it looked rather strange. like interlaced or something. after less than a minute, everything would aggressively freeze. i can tell it's a hardware-related problem: mouse doesn't move. num lock doesn't turn off. and of course, any keyboard input is futile.
i spent about a day or so running my computer without any display drivers installed. of course, it works fine, but it's like not having my video card. i can't play any game that needs openGL. duh. and the display sucks, whenever i move windows around, the refresh rate is slow and stupid.
i went to connect3d.com for the millionth time this week, and noticed something about .net framework 1.1. it needed to be installed before the drivers. i hadn't seen that. happy, i download the .net framework, and re-download the 5.5 catalyst driver from connect3d.com, hoping it'll work this time.
the installation went fine, but no. windows loaded at 800x600, my display was kind of displaced from my monitor, interlaced-like graphics, and the sudden freeze after a few seconds.
i'm so mad and desperate. right now i'm in safe mode...
i tried everything i could think of, looked for FAQs, related problems in this forum and other forums, but found nothing.
---
now, something interesting i can see with safe mode is, that it seems like my drivers don't work at all. when i go to display properties > settings > advanced > adapter, nothing comes up on "adapter style", or information. i click on properties, vgasave properties show up, and on the resource tab where are listed the conflicts, if any, i get the following conflicts:
I/O Range: 03B0 - 03BB used by VIA CPU to AGP2.0 controller
I/O Range: 03C0 - 03DF used by VIA CPU to AGP2.0 controller
Memory Range: 000A0000 - 000BFFFF used by VIA CPU to AGP2.0 controller
of course, bringing up the windows troubleshooter is a load of nonsense.
apparently, my video card isn't listed in the windows HCL (hardware compatibility list), but it was working before!
seriously, i've tried everything i can think of, including taking the video card out, checking the AGP slot for dust, putting it back in (i even did this with love)... and nothing.
am i facing the horrible possibility that my video card is just bad from factory? or is there something i'm skipping?
i would gladly appreciate any help