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#1 Programatorul

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Posted 04 March 2005 - 07:14 PM

Well here is my problem. After I update my graphic drivers, office crashes in about 2 min after open. So everithing's ok with office while I keep my original drivers installed, but I can't play some new games without the new ones. In fact, when i run some games (for example "Prince of Persia Warrior Within") with the old drivers it happend the same thing as with office with the new drivers: everithing goes black and nothing responds. I mention that this happens both on win2000 and xp (not on win 98). Both OfficeXp and Office2003 give me the same problem. I tried using the new drivers, but with no Hardware Acceleration. Still doesn't work.
Someone, please help cuz right now I have to uninstall and install the right version of drivers every time I want to either work in office or play.
My video card is: Ati Radeon 9100 Atlantis (sapphire)
My mainboard is: Matsonic MS8308EP(266)
My proccesor is: AMD Duron 1GHz

#2 ScinteX

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Posted 04 March 2005 - 11:59 PM

Hi,
Just a thought but have your tried installing just the ATI graphic driver? I remember that there are 2 options on the ATI site for the Radeon drivers- one of them needs the .net framework and all of the bloat that comes with that.... maybe its causing a problem.

So, maybe the driver labelled "driver only" would help? I would post a link but for some odd reason i cant get onto the ATI site!!

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Posted 05 March 2005 - 12:09 AM

Found the link for XP:

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-09-041221m-020455c.exe

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Posted 05 March 2005 - 09:19 AM

Tried that and there's no change ;(

#5 peterh

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Posted 05 March 2005 - 12:32 PM

Did you uninstall ATI Device Driver from ADd/Remove Programs BEFORE installing the new version!
If not, then remove all existing drivers and start again.

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Posted 05 March 2005 - 02:06 PM

Yes I did!

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Posted 05 March 2005 - 05:16 PM

Boot up in safe mode, remove the ati drivers and display adapter device from device manager, then boot back in and Windows will/should redetect the adapter, install with new drivers.

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Posted 05 March 2005 - 09:17 PM

again no change! this is getting annoing! i think my only sollution is to change my graphic card. :x

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Posted 06 March 2005 - 02:55 PM

Does this occur in safe mode?

Have you tried to install latest the omega drivers for ATI?
http://www.omegadrivers.net/

Update chipset and motherboard drivers.

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Posted 09 March 2005 - 08:04 AM

No this is not occuring in safe mode. Where can I find the omega drivers?
One more thing. I watched what is happening more carefully and it seems that this is not occuring if I don't work with equations in that document (apparently). Very odd.

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Posted 12 March 2005 - 10:16 PM

here's a change: the drivers i told u about as being the latest were from december 2004. now i took the latest drivers and installed them and now i have a crash at windows start up! cool! :(( so windows 2000 freezes at: "applying personal setting". got to enter safe mode and uninstall them. the same problem with the omega drivers