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Don't buy a Radeon
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. ------------- Richard A. Higgins |
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