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ASUS Radeon 9600XT ATI driver stops Windows XP Pro getting to Login Screen
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I recently put together a new PC with the following: ASUS A7N8Xe deluxe motherboard ASUS Radeon 9600XT 8x AGP video card 128mb 2 x 160GB Seagate SATA harddisks Samsung 52x24x52 CDRW. Installed Windows XP Pro about 3 weeks ago and it was working fine until this morning. I turned on the PC and it went blank after the Windows XP loading screen (i.e. did not get to the Windows XP Login screen). I reinstalled Windows XP and found that the problem occurs after I install the ATI driver on the ASUS Radeon 9600XT Driver CD. It stopped working for some unknown reason, and even reinstalling Windows XP, then the motherboard drivers followed by the ASUS drivers (which I did the first time) doesn't even work at all now. I have no idea what could be causing the problems. Can anyone help? Thanks Chris |
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wrote: Hi, I recently put together a new PC with the following: ASUS A7N8Xe deluxe motherboard ASUS Radeon 9600XT 8x AGP video card 128mb 2 x 160GB Seagate SATA harddisks Samsung 52x24x52 CDRW. Installed Windows XP Pro about 3 weeks ago and it was working fine until this morning. I turned on the PC and it went blank after the Windows XP loading screen (i.e. did not get to the Windows XP Login screen). I reinstalled Windows XP and found that the problem occurs after I install the ATI driver on the ASUS Radeon 9600XT Driver CD. It stopped working for some unknown reason, and even reinstalling Windows XP, then the motherboard drivers followed by the ASUS drivers (which I did the first time) doesn't even work at all now. I have no idea what could be causing the problems. Can anyone help? Thanks Chris Download another driver from ATI. I don't know why yours has stopped working, but the driver from the Catalyst CD that came with my ATI9800 didn't work, and getting a later one from the ATI site fixed it. This can sometimes be due to the SmartGART code getting stuck while it is testing the card to see what AGP speed it will support. The other unlikely problem, is related to power. The video card might be drawing a little extra current just as the desktop appears. So, if playing the driver game doesn't fix your problem, find another PSU to swap in. (I guess your BIOS screen still works, so you can actually check this out by visiting the hardware monitor page in the BIOS and seeing whether the PSU voltages are within the normal 5% tolerance. Only waste time swapping the PSU if they look to be off by closer to 10%.) HTH, Paul |
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Hi Paul,
I tried the newest drivers however same problem. Also checked the power issues and everything was well within the range. I even did a clean install 3 times and the same problem. Is it possible there is a fault with the MB or video card? It only plays up when I try to install the drivers for the video card which is odd considering it was fine three weeks ago when I first put it together. Any other ideas? Thanks Chris "Paul" wrote in message ... In article , "Chris Sze" wrote: Hi, I recently put together a new PC with the following: ASUS A7N8Xe deluxe motherboard ASUS Radeon 9600XT 8x AGP video card 128mb 2 x 160GB Seagate SATA harddisks Samsung 52x24x52 CDRW. Installed Windows XP Pro about 3 weeks ago and it was working fine until this morning. I turned on the PC and it went blank after the Windows XP loading screen (i.e. did not get to the Windows XP Login screen). I reinstalled Windows XP and found that the problem occurs after I install the ATI driver on the ASUS Radeon 9600XT Driver CD. It stopped working for some unknown reason, and even reinstalling Windows XP, then the motherboard drivers followed by the ASUS drivers (which I did the first time) doesn't even work at all now. I have no idea what could be causing the problems. Can anyone help? Thanks Chris Download another driver from ATI. I don't know why yours has stopped working, but the driver from the Catalyst CD that came with my ATI9800 didn't work, and getting a later one from the ATI site fixed it. This can sometimes be due to the SmartGART code getting stuck while it is testing the card to see what AGP speed it will support. The other unlikely problem, is related to power. The video card might be drawing a little extra current just as the desktop appears. So, if playing the driver game doesn't fix your problem, find another PSU to swap in. (I guess your BIOS screen still works, so you can actually check this out by visiting the hardware monitor page in the BIOS and seeing whether the PSU voltages are within the normal 5% tolerance. Only waste time swapping the PSU if they look to be off by closer to 10%.) HTH, Paul |
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In article , "Chris Sze"
wrote: Hi Paul, I tried the newest drivers however same problem. Also checked the power issues and everything was well within the range. I even did a clean install 3 times and the same problem. Is it possible there is a fault with the MB or video card? It only plays up when I try to install the drivers for the video card which is odd considering it was fine three weeks ago when I first put it together. Any other ideas? Thanks Chris Nothing else I can think of. A hardware fault is likely, if you've tried different versions of drivers and symptoms don't change. BIOS Settings I would try: AGP Frequency [66] or 67, assuming Auto isn't working FSB Spread Spectrum [Disabled] shouldn't be necessary but... AGP Spread Spectrum [Disabled] shouldn't be necessary but... Graphics Aperture [64MB] should be good enough AGP 8X Support [Disabled] will probably be ignored by Catalyst AGP Fast Write [Disabled] will probably be ignored by Catalyst Install Windows Install Nvidia Forceware 4.27 (http://www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html) Install a different Catalyst Install a different DirectX if you can find one (I think Catalyst has a dependency on which version of DirectX you use, and that might be why DirectX is included on the ATI CDROM. At least ATI has some minimum DirectX requirement.) You might be right about the video card. It could be faulty hardware, but a typical failure would be, say, bad memory, in which case you'd get colored blocks, or some other visual artifacts. The blank screen implies an AGP problem, and unfortunately, at least with the Catalysts I've tried, you cannot even go into a motherboard BIOS and turn down the AGP to 4X, 2X, or 1X to try and fix it. I found the SmartGART code ignored the BIOS setting, and instead it checks the status register on the video card. If it finds 8X, it will try to run at 8X. If you could get into wherever the SmartGART startup conditions are stored, then maybe you could adjust it. You cannot do it with the SmartGART tab, until the computer has successfully booted once, so it is a chicken vs egg problem. Paul "Paul" wrote in message ... In article , "Chris Sze" wrote: Hi, I recently put together a new PC with the following: ASUS A7N8Xe deluxe motherboard ASUS Radeon 9600XT 8x AGP video card 128mb 2 x 160GB Seagate SATA harddisks Samsung 52x24x52 CDRW. Installed Windows XP Pro about 3 weeks ago and it was working fine until this morning. I turned on the PC and it went blank after the Windows XP loading screen (i.e. did not get to the Windows XP Login screen). I reinstalled Windows XP and found that the problem occurs after I install the ATI driver on the ASUS Radeon 9600XT Driver CD. It stopped working for some unknown reason, and even reinstalling Windows XP, then the motherboard drivers followed by the ASUS drivers (which I did the first time) doesn't even work at all now. I have no idea what could be causing the problems. Can anyone help? Thanks Chris Download another driver from ATI. I don't know why yours has stopped working, but the driver from the Catalyst CD that came with my ATI9800 didn't work, and getting a later one from the ATI site fixed it. This can sometimes be due to the SmartGART code getting stuck while it is testing the card to see what AGP speed it will support. The other unlikely problem, is related to power. The video card might be drawing a little extra current just as the desktop appears. So, if playing the driver game doesn't fix your problem, find another PSU to swap in. (I guess your BIOS screen still works, so you can actually check this out by visiting the hardware monitor page in the BIOS and seeing whether the PSU voltages are within the normal 5% tolerance. Only waste time swapping the PSU if they look to be off by closer to 10%.) HTH, Paul |
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