I have the same problem. Exactly. Just started happening. I updated to
the new drivers. Within a day I started getting crashes regularly. Here is
a cut and paste of the NT Event.

The driver ati2dvag for the display device \Device\Video0 got stuck
in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device
itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly.
Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates.

I tried uninstalling and going back to the previous driver but it didn't
solve the problem. A search on the net shows this problem being reported as
far back as Nov 2002.

I specifically built this system to be stable, as I am a software developer.
And it has never crashed even 1 time in the 4 months that I have been using
it until now. And the thing is - I'm not really doing anything. No games,
no heavy stress on the card. Just typing into notepad or something. I went
to www.ati.com but it says that after 30 days, support is paid only. Well
the hell with them. If hardware device drivers are buggy and they're going
to make me pay to help resolve the problem, I'll throw my 9500Pro into some
test system and buy an NVIDIA card.

Supermicro X5DAE
Dual Xeon 2.4ghz w/hyperthreading
1.5GB ECC RAM
LSI dual channel U320 SCSI controller
Seagate 15K RPM U320 SCSI drive
WinXP Pro, SP1, Catalyst 3.2 (also tried Catalyst 3.5, no difference)

"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.