Driver Problems. Help me sort this out.

Anubis · **Posted:** March 20th, 2007, 3:16 pm

Okay, for the past.. 7 months I've been using this computer - and it seems just randomly my display driver decides to "break" and I get the evil blue screen telling me that windows has been shut down etc, etc.

It's not spyware and it's not a virus, cause sometimes this happens right after a re-format!

I want to fix it. And I have no clue where to begin.
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Graphics Card = ATI Radeon X550
Driver = ati2dvag.dll
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If you need any other information to help, don't hesitate to ask.

Adbot · **Posted:** March 20th, 2007, 3:16 pm

Andy · **Posted:** March 20th, 2007, 3:53 pm

1. I've always been an NVidia owner but ill try

Have you tried completely removing your display drivers?
(start<control panel<system<hardware<drive manager) Find you driver, right click, you can try to find updates for it. If no updates are found = uninstall it. (there is a button for install)
*Make sure you have downloaded the latest driver from ATI FIRST, if you can't find them I will*
Then reboot, and reinstall your drivers

If you can get an exact message of BSOD then i can help more,
I personally had this on my home built system (It was because the IRQ setting in my BIOS, two drives were fighting for the same #)

jrdgames · **Posted:** March 20th, 2007, 7:32 pm

How new is your driver?
Heres a driver on driverguide, you'll need an account there of course though. http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=684048

Anubis · **Posted:** March 21st, 2007, 12:56 am

Newest Display Driver installed.
Restarted after installing the driver, windows loaded and a bunch of error boxes came up, a few seconds later - the blue screen came up with;

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Started again now, no error boxes aside from "The system has recovered from a serious error."

Okay, after that, Andy told me to restart and go into the BIOS settings by pressing delete, and from there we figured out I have a more basic one than him. >.<
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Old Driver was 2004, New driver is Feb 2007.

MattVortex · **Posted:** March 21st, 2007, 2:46 am

If you're still getting the problem with the newer drivers, you could try using the Omega Drivers. I had BSOD with a the default drivers that came with my laptop, but I havent had any BSOD problems with the Omega Drivers so far.

http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php

Just select a mirror and install them. You'll need to reboot.

I sometimes get wierd lines appearing with them after hibernation, although if you shut your computer down instead of hibernate it, you should be fine.

Anubis · **Posted:** March 21st, 2007, 3:18 am

It may be worth me mentioning I'm using Windows XP ME, and not professional/home. Since the place I downloaded my newer driver from had seperate sections for each.

Problem is, I don't know whether it's fixed or not until I get another message. :\

Adbot · **Posted:** March 21st, 2007, 3:18 am

jrdgames · **Posted:** March 23rd, 2007, 8:28 pm

Anubis wrote:

It may be worth me mentioning I'm using Windows XP ME, and not professional/home. Since the place I downloaded my newer driver from had seperate sections for each.

Problem is, I don't know whether it's fixed or not until I get another message. :\

XP ME? I have not heard of such a beast by that name, could you please explain more?

Kronic · **Posted:** March 24th, 2007, 7:32 am

jrdgames wrote:

XP ME? I have not heard of such a beast by that name, could you please explain more?

It's XP Media Center Edition, if I'm correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Media_Center_Edition

Anubis · **Posted:** March 24th, 2007, 8:14 am

Kronic wrote:

jrdgames wrote:

XP ME? I have not heard of such a beast by that name, could you please explain more?

It's XP Media Center Edition, if I'm correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Media_Center_Edition

Yep.

(Just wanted to confirm it)