Radeon 2D Instabilities...

[cbuchach]

I am wondering if anyone has been having similar problems with 2D stability of the Radeon. Ever since installing the Radeon on my Win2k system, stability has been rather poor. Since my system was 100% (I mean rock solid) stable with my Banshee, I am attributing this to the Radeon. I can always reproduce the problem if I go into Word and zoom in and out of a document (in the page view mode) quickly with the zoom feature of the scroll wheel. The text quickly becomes garbeled and then in a few seconds locks the system requiring a hardware restart. Though system lockups will occur when the system doesn't seem to be under significant video stress.

I have tried several different drivers and found the .3073 win2k's to be the best, as in image quality, 3D, and 2D stability. With other drivers I either had the same problem or the driver was unstable in 3D rendering (this was the case with the most recent directx 8 win2k drivers). I did a clean install of win2k after upgrading. My current system is a FIC VA-503+, K6-2 550. I haven't heard reports of this problem and believe it may be somewhat related to my older hardware and the MVP3 chipset.

Any suggestions on what to try to fix this problem would be helpful. Also, since I will be upgrading very soon, reports of this not being a problem on newer system would also be of good piece of mind.

Thanks

 

[cbuchach]

Anyone out there have any ideas?

 

[rbV5]

I've not experienced those problems and I use photoshop and other graphic utilities and 3d apps as well. The 2d is everybit as good if not better than my V3 2000, which I consider to have been excellent.

It does sound like drivers to me, have you benchmarked your system to see if something obvious is wrong?, what are the other symptoms of instability.

 

[cbuchach]

So then you have been using the Radeon with windows 2000 and have experienced no seemingly video-related lockups?