ATI 9600 Pro Problem

I have an ATI 9600 Pro 128 meg (ATI version) in a Soyo P4s Dragon
Ultra motherboard and 2.2 ghz P4. All the games run great with fast
performance, and I never get any lockups. However, I do have a
strange problem on bootup. Either my system boot fines and
everything works great, or my system wont boot at all. I have to go
through multiple reboots until finally the system will load. It then
gives "this system has recovered from a serious error" as the result
of the Catalyst 3.9 drivers (currently using Omega drivers but same
problem with original ATI drivers). The error report lists display
driver, ati2dvag.dll as the problem. Same problem occurs with or
without VPU recover on in the drivers. Any ideas what the problem
could be??

I tried Catalyst 3.8 drivers, too, but havent tried 3.7. However,
I'd like to keep 3.9 if possible for better game support (I think DX2
works alot better with 3.9).

Thanks,

Jeff

On 30 Nov 2003 22:15:40 -0800, (Jeff
Crawford) wrote:

Either my system boot fines and
everything works great, or my system wont boot at all. I have to go
through multiple reboots until finally the system will load.

This could mean your power supply is not providing enough power or
worse, you power supply is dying.

I had this happen to me too: taking multiple reboots to boot from a
cold boot. If my computer has not been turned off too long, it would
boot fine. If my computer has been off to the point of being cold, I
have to reboot over and over and wait a long time to load.

I swapped power supplies and my troubles went all away. See if you
can borrow a power supply to see if it helps your system start up from
a cold boot.

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 06:41:05 -0800, fredi wrote:

On 30 Nov 2003 22:15:40 -0800, (Jeff
Crawford) wrote:

Either my system boot fines and
everything works great, or my system wont boot at all. I have to go
through multiple reboots until finally the system will load.

This could mean your power supply is not providing enough power or
worse, you power supply is dying.

I had this happen to me too: taking multiple reboots to boot from a
cold boot. If my computer has not been turned off too long, it would
boot fine. If my computer has been off to the point of being cold, I
have to reboot over and over and wait a long time to load.

I swapped power supplies and my troubles went all away. See if you
can borrow a power supply to see if it helps your system start up from
a cold boot.

Yes, exactly. I have a friend who had the same problems. We later
found out her power supply was faulty. I am pretty sure its your power
supply. Try to get one from a friend to see if the problem goes away.


***
....the Phoenix shall rise...

Sounds like a 'buggy' driver.

--
DaveW



"Jeff Crawford" wrote in message
om...
I have an ATI 9600 Pro 128 meg (ATI version) in a Soyo P4s Dragon
Ultra motherboard and 2.2 ghz P4. All the games run great with fast
performance, and I never get any lockups. However, I do have a
strange problem on bootup. Either my system boot fines and
everything works great, or my system wont boot at all. I have to go
through multiple reboots until finally the system will load. It then
gives "this system has recovered from a serious error" as the result
of the Catalyst 3.9 drivers (currently using Omega drivers but same
problem with original ATI drivers). The error report lists display
driver, ati2dvag.dll as the problem. Same problem occurs with or
without VPU recover on in the drivers. Any ideas what the problem
could be??

I tried Catalyst 3.8 drivers, too, but havent tried 3.7. However,
I'd like to keep 3.9 if possible for better game support (I think DX2
works alot better with 3.9).

Thanks,

Jeff