New ATI Radeon drivers cause windows screens (XP, 2K and ME) to go blank after boot on Compaq EVO N600C laptop

Why are you screwing around so much?
Eh, because Ati has current drivers that solve many issues, and increase
performance.

You are loading ATI drivers on a LAPTOP ??
For what? Laptops don't use standard video card drivers.

So what? I've used Catalyst drivers (Manual selecting, Radeon 9000 series)
on my MobilityRadeon9000 that came with Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo-D8820 for over
a year now. Using cat 3.5 - 4.4, no problems ever!

And my new Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D 1840, with 128mb Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro
(375/320) uses catalyst 4.2 drivers , without any problems so far.

I have had a similar problem with a 4.4 Omega drivers and my Radeon
9600 Pro. The 4.4 drivers seem to cause my monitor to lose the video
signal and go into sleep mode randomly. This happens both in 2-D and
3-D modes. Switching back to the 4.3 Omega drivers fixes the problem.

I tried enabling and disabling fast writes, but it didn't seem to have
any effect.

David

With all due respect Johns, I like to screw around with my laptop. I'm no
novice. This was a really odd problem and your solution did not work for me.
I am a tech. In fact, I teach techs. Thank you for your advice though.

"johns" wrote in message
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Okay, this is weird. I don't know if my kids did something or what.

Sure is weird. Why are you screwing around so much? You
are loading ATI drivers on a LAPTOP ?? For what? Laptops
don't use standard video card drivers. For pete's sake reimage
the thing and be done with it. I get called on site, and I find
stuff like this all the time. Holy Cat! I just give up when I see
this. I know that fixing it is not going to stop the kludging, and
I'm going to get called back a dozen times until I blow my top
and tell the user to stop it ! For heavens sake call a tech, and
quit fooling around.

johns