Try this: http://www.omegacorner.com/ati_help.htm
At bottom of page he points out a problem & fix for Hercules cards
Good luck...
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Franko

"Archduke" wrote in message
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Hi NG,

I got a problem with my video-adapter, a Radeon 9500pro by Hercules. I
bought this great piece of hardware approximately 6 months ago and all
ran fine until the beginning of last week: EVERY morning at first boot
a freeze or a complete crash. WinXP reported an error with
ATI2DVAG.dll, but nothing of an infinite loop... When I try a reboot
everything works well, even with 10 or more reboots during the day, but
when I start the PC next morning guess what happens: CRASH again.

My system:
P4 1.6 a @ 2,56, FSB 160
ASUS P4B533-E
ATI / HERCULES Radeon 9500pro non o.ced
768 MB DDR-RAM PC 2700 Samsung (2 sticks)
WinXP home, SP1, Catalyst 3.1 but tried Hercules Catalyst3.4, no
improvement.