"NoNoBadDog!" mypants_bjsledgeATpixi.com wrote in message
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"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
I wonder if this is the known problem with applications using MFC, on XP
SP2. There is a bug with the OS, which if you have a desktop theme other
than 'Windows Classic' selected, causes a memory leak, with some drivers,
which can crash the system. MS are working on a hotfix, but currently
recommend switching to using the Windows Classic desktop, if you are
seeing unexplained crashes.

Best Wishes