Semi Random Video Card Problems

[radthad]

My old 6600GT card died on me and I bought a nifty little ATI X1300 Pro.

The default drivers would not install properly and the Catalyst Control Center wouldn't detect them so I downloaded the latest ones from ATI's website.

The problem:

Everything boots fine, no problems with the display during the POST stuff. During the XP loading process, the screen gets blurred and I get a BSOD (still blurred). It doesn't do this all the time, but when it happens, I have to reboot the PC about 3-4 times before XP loads properly. Any ideas about fixing this, without turning off any of the accelerations (Microsoft's recommendation)

Windows XP Home
Gigabyte GA8i915P Duo Pro
ATI X1300 Pro
ATI Display Driver Version: 8.231.0.0

 

[dfuze]

Did you remove the old drivers prior to using your new card?
It is even more important to remove them if you switch from an Nvidia to ATI (or
vice versa).

 

[Ctrackstar126]

http://www.drivercleaner.net/

 

[radthad]

I used Add/Remove Programs to uninstall the Nvidia drivers...I'll check out driver cleaner just to be sure.

 

[Ctrackstar126]

you'll need driver cleaner to fully remove drivers

 

[radthad]

I used Driver Cleaner to uinstall the NVidia drivers, and it was still buggy. I tried reinstalling the ATI drivers, and it still bugs out. I don't know what to do.

This is king of irritating :\

 

[radthad]

ideas? anybody?

I used Driver Cleaner and even reinstalled my ATI drivers...still does the same thing.

*bump*

 

[BadThad]

HAHAHAHA...cool name dood!

Did you uninstall the old drivers in SAFE MODE? No need to use driver cleaner (even though it's a decent program) if you do everything in safe mode. Try this:

1) Boot into safe mode
2) uninstall ATI drivers
3) Reboot into safe mode
4) Run driver cleaner
5) Reboot into safe mode
6) Install newest ATI drivers

Let us know what happens.

 

[radthad]

I'll give that a try too...thanks.

 

[radthad]

K the whole safe mode cleaning and reinstallations...didn't work :/

Maybe I should try updating mobo bios too?