"Richard Higgins" wrote in message
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If you are going to use an Athlon 64 and use Microsoft Word, don't get a
Radeon 9800. I don't know about any other Radeons. Their driver
(Catalyst) and MS Word do not play together well. Running MS Word will
cause your system to automatically reboot, usually within 2 minutes after
MS Word has started.

If you are having this problem already, uninstall the Radeon driver and
see if MS Word works. You'll see that it does. Reinstall the drivers and
MS Word won't work.

There are some that have installed old versions of the Radeon drivers and
even Radeon 9600 drivers for their Radeon 9800 and got MS Word to work
with it.

Radeon's fix is to dummy down the board to where you might as well have
gotten a cheap generic graphics card.

My solution was to get an nVidia 6800. Works like a charm.

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Richard A. Higgins

To summaize......

***************WRONG!!!!!!!***************

I am a system builder, and I build several AMD 64 based systems daily. the
majority of the systems I build use ATI video cards. I have never once
encountered the issues you describe. You should not assume that because you
have an issue that the problem is both universal and is attributable to the
problem yuou think it is.

You should not be spreading such garbage information. There are those in
this groupd who do not have enough experience to know that you are blowing
smoke.

Since you have done no other troubleshooting other than to unistall the
Catalyst drivers, there is no way to determine what is *REALLY* causing your
problems.

Bobby