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New ATI Radeon drivers cause windows screens (XP, 2K and ME) to go blank after boot on Compaq EVO N600C laptop
Okay, this is weird. I don't know if my kids did something or what.
Suddenly, whenever windows goes into graphics mode, the screen goes completely blank. Let me describe the scenarios...... I couldn't figure out why the display would go completely blank, so I reloaded the OS (Windows XP). The graphical portion of the load works fine as does the generic VGA mode. After the boot, I can see the 640X480X16 color screen. After I download and load the latest ATI Radeon drives from the Compaq web page, the system reboots. After the reboot, I see the text portion of the boot, then I see the Windows XP logo with the little bar below it that shows the progress of the OS load, then blank. It's completely blank, like all power is being removed from the display, no back light, no nothing. The PC is still operating. I can hear sounds, just no display. So, I tried loading Windows 2000 Pro, same problem. Then I loaded Windows ME, same problem. I loaded a few versions of Linux and they all work! So I know that the display is functional. I tried toggeling the Function F4 sequence which changes display output to the video-out connectors, but this had no effect. Any ideas? Thanks! |
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