Blitz KriegeR
Senior member
Usually I consider myself quite adept at diagnosing and fixing computer issues, but in this case I feel much more confident with some other opinions. So, thanks in advance, and here we go?.
Ok, well, everything was just dandy yesterday, no problems at all. At the end of a long night I decided to upgrade my graphics driver, as it was a little behind. I downloaded the appropriate display driver from ATI?s (or is it ?AMD? now? 😕) website, threw her in and turned off my PC for the night.
I power up this morning and the first thing I notice is it takes an unusually long time to start up. It hangs for nearly 5mins after the WinXP logo on a black screen before continuing to the login screen. Odd. Anyway, it boots fine from here, until ATI Tool starts up and tells me it can?t detect an ATI card on my system and some features have been disabled. Again, Odd. I didn?t think much of it, as ATI Tool isn?t the most sophisticated (or up to date) program in the world. Next I tried to load up a few games, they all CTD immediately or just generate errors (again, immediately). So, I try to load up Prince of Persia 2 because it has one of those little system utilities. It pops up telling me my GPU is unsupported because this program needs >64Mb of VRAM to run. Odd. My X800GTO has 256Mb of VRAM?. From here I pulled up DXDIAG in a panic and jumped to the graphics section, and all the diver files and such seem correct, except the VRAM line reads ?N/A?. Very odd indeed. Also, all the acceleration abilities are grayed out. (DirectDraw, Direct3D, etc.)
Now I?m starting to panic. I try to console myself, ?oh it?s just gotta be a buggy driver, wouldn?t be the first time?? So, I use ATI?s Catalyst Uninstaller to remove all ATI software from my system, restart, and reinstall my old graphics driver, and restart again.
Same spiel. No change in anything, all of the above still applicable.
So, there you have it (sorry for the ranting). Any comments greatly appreciated, I?m really hoping to get a 2nd (or more) opinion on this little problem.
Thanks a bunch!
Ok, well, everything was just dandy yesterday, no problems at all. At the end of a long night I decided to upgrade my graphics driver, as it was a little behind. I downloaded the appropriate display driver from ATI?s (or is it ?AMD? now? 😕) website, threw her in and turned off my PC for the night.
I power up this morning and the first thing I notice is it takes an unusually long time to start up. It hangs for nearly 5mins after the WinXP logo on a black screen before continuing to the login screen. Odd. Anyway, it boots fine from here, until ATI Tool starts up and tells me it can?t detect an ATI card on my system and some features have been disabled. Again, Odd. I didn?t think much of it, as ATI Tool isn?t the most sophisticated (or up to date) program in the world. Next I tried to load up a few games, they all CTD immediately or just generate errors (again, immediately). So, I try to load up Prince of Persia 2 because it has one of those little system utilities. It pops up telling me my GPU is unsupported because this program needs >64Mb of VRAM to run. Odd. My X800GTO has 256Mb of VRAM?. From here I pulled up DXDIAG in a panic and jumped to the graphics section, and all the diver files and such seem correct, except the VRAM line reads ?N/A?. Very odd indeed. Also, all the acceleration abilities are grayed out. (DirectDraw, Direct3D, etc.)
Now I?m starting to panic. I try to console myself, ?oh it?s just gotta be a buggy driver, wouldn?t be the first time?? So, I use ATI?s Catalyst Uninstaller to remove all ATI software from my system, restart, and reinstall my old graphics driver, and restart again.
Same spiel. No change in anything, all of the above still applicable.
So, there you have it (sorry for the ranting). Any comments greatly appreciated, I?m really hoping to get a 2nd (or more) opinion on this little problem.
Thanks a bunch!
