Boot Up Desktop Problem

[Jdinh04]

hey, everytime when i start up my computer it goes to my desk top right. then it says this thing

radeon ve driver was responsible to the cause of instability. and then a couple seconds later it restarts again and keep saying that

how can i fix this error? could it be something wrong wen i was installing my OS ? i've tried to download a driver and try to install but it won't give me enough time to install it becuase it keeps on restarting after a couple seconds when it gets to the desktop

 

[pyrojunkie]

Try booting into safe mode to replace the driver.

 

[Gravity]

Originally posted by: pyrojunkie
Try booting into safe mode to replace the driver.

Yep, press F8 after post and enter safe mode. Uninstall the driver for the video card. Then reboot to normal mode. Then when you get to the desktop in normal mode, windows will have installed a generic vid driver. Make sure your antivirus software is disabled and install the radeon driver. Then reboot. all should be well. If you still get the error, there is a legitimate conflict with the driver and something on your system, or XP and you should uninstall it again and find an older version of the driver.

 

[Jdinh04]

let me try that and see thanks

 

[Jdinh04]

i've got it installed but then it said i needed a updated driver

where can i get that?

 

[compso]

Are you running Windows XP? What video card do you have? It seems that the latest ATI Catalyst and nVidia Forceware drivers are more stable than ever before so they should work fine as long as there isn't something else wrong. It's possible to prevent the auto-reboot so you might be able to see an error message. You may have to do this in safemode. Right click "My Computer" and left click "Properties" to bring up "System Properties" window. Click "Advanced" tab, click "settings" and unders "System Failure" section uncheck the box labeled "Automatically Restart".

 

[Jdinh04]

alright thanks dude