Replaced my motherboard over the weekend, with lots of kindly help over in the motherboard forum. Been fine for 2 days.
ASRock Dual-SATA2, Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 1GB Corsair RAM, MSI RX300HM-TD128E PCIe - x16.
This morning I rebooted and it came up with my custom color scheme reverted to XP default. Hmmmmm.
Left it that way, came home from work and found some icons in Outlook Express showing pink stripey rectangles like a background around them. Hmmm!!!
Rebooted again and now the splash screen looked like it was at the lowest VGA color setting. After that it went black for several minutes, then BSOD and the message that ati2dvag was in an infinite loop.
Rebooted, got the "We apologize ... do you want Safe Mode etc" screen, but it was in gibberish. As if the ASCII characters were all there but mixed up, shifted down the ASCII set. Like a kid's code where all letters get substituted consistently for others.
Chose safe mode, uninstalled the video drivers, rebooted, hoped New Hardware Found would come up. It did, and I reinstalled the drivers but no good.
Since then I've tried all kinds of tricks but it's getting worse. Now the delays in getting into Safe Mode are getting to be several minutes long. At first I would get the desktop and icons but now it's freezing on the Found Hardware thing. Cant get past that.
At the end of my rope here. Any ideas?
I wish I had another card to substitute
ASRock Dual-SATA2, Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 1GB Corsair RAM, MSI RX300HM-TD128E PCIe - x16.
This morning I rebooted and it came up with my custom color scheme reverted to XP default. Hmmmmm.
Left it that way, came home from work and found some icons in Outlook Express showing pink stripey rectangles like a background around them. Hmmm!!!
Rebooted again and now the splash screen looked like it was at the lowest VGA color setting. After that it went black for several minutes, then BSOD and the message that ati2dvag was in an infinite loop.
Rebooted, got the "We apologize ... do you want Safe Mode etc" screen, but it was in gibberish. As if the ASCII characters were all there but mixed up, shifted down the ASCII set. Like a kid's code where all letters get substituted consistently for others.
Chose safe mode, uninstalled the video drivers, rebooted, hoped New Hardware Found would come up. It did, and I reinstalled the drivers but no good.
Since then I've tried all kinds of tricks but it's getting worse. Now the delays in getting into Safe Mode are getting to be several minutes long. At first I would get the desktop and icons but now it's freezing on the Found Hardware thing. Cant get past that.
At the end of my rope here. Any ideas?
I wish I had another card to substitute