Hi!
I have a Gigabyte P35-DS3P mobo, Radeon X1950 Pro card and 4GB of ram in my 2 year old Win XP Pro system. I have 2 monitors so there are two display adapters present in the system: Radeon X1950 Pro and Radeon X1950 Pro Secondary.
It used to work great, no problems or anything like that. Problems started a while back, once I upgraded from SP2 to SP3. From time to time I would get a REALLY bad refresh rate on my monitor and I would know something is wrong. The device manager had the exclamation sign next to the Radeon X1950, showing an Code 0 error "This device cannot start". I also had the same image on both of my monitors (usually I have my desktop extended to my second monitor). The Secondary adapted didn't have any sign.
So I used the regular procedure to "fix" the problem. I uninstalled the ATI drivers from the system using the Add / Remove Programs from Control Panel. I then used the Driver Cleaner Pro software and restarted the PC. Once back up, XP found the radeon card and wanted to install it, but I click Cancel and use the driver found on ATI site (8-12_xp32_dd_72271; I used to use the full software with Catalist and all that, but someone suggested to use just the driver to help solve the problem). I restart again and it's usually (sometimes I have to repeat the procedure) fixed. I have both adapters present, extended desktop and proper refresh rate.
But the story doesn't end here.. This state of bliss would last for a few weeks at best, before it would repeat and I would have to do this all over again. I looked around for answers on how to fix this, didn't find anything special so I kinda got used to fixing the problem once a month or something like that. Usually takes about 5 min, so not a big deal. But now the problem is more intense, it happens once or twice a week! And it's getting really really annoying.
How can I fix this? What/where's the problem? Does anyone have any idea on this?
Please help!
TIA,
Mat
I have a Gigabyte P35-DS3P mobo, Radeon X1950 Pro card and 4GB of ram in my 2 year old Win XP Pro system. I have 2 monitors so there are two display adapters present in the system: Radeon X1950 Pro and Radeon X1950 Pro Secondary.
It used to work great, no problems or anything like that. Problems started a while back, once I upgraded from SP2 to SP3. From time to time I would get a REALLY bad refresh rate on my monitor and I would know something is wrong. The device manager had the exclamation sign next to the Radeon X1950, showing an Code 0 error "This device cannot start". I also had the same image on both of my monitors (usually I have my desktop extended to my second monitor). The Secondary adapted didn't have any sign.
So I used the regular procedure to "fix" the problem. I uninstalled the ATI drivers from the system using the Add / Remove Programs from Control Panel. I then used the Driver Cleaner Pro software and restarted the PC. Once back up, XP found the radeon card and wanted to install it, but I click Cancel and use the driver found on ATI site (8-12_xp32_dd_72271; I used to use the full software with Catalist and all that, but someone suggested to use just the driver to help solve the problem). I restart again and it's usually (sometimes I have to repeat the procedure) fixed. I have both adapters present, extended desktop and proper refresh rate.
But the story doesn't end here.. This state of bliss would last for a few weeks at best, before it would repeat and I would have to do this all over again. I looked around for answers on how to fix this, didn't find anything special so I kinda got used to fixing the problem once a month or something like that. Usually takes about 5 min, so not a big deal. But now the problem is more intense, it happens once or twice a week! And it's getting really really annoying.
How can I fix this? What/where's the problem? Does anyone have any idea on this?
Please help!
TIA,
Mat
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