NezziR

[color=#000000]Though I’ve been a GeForce fan for a long time, I recently decided to upgrade to an ATI Radeon x850 pro to play some of the new games that are coming out.[/color]



[color=#000000]Once I installed the card and driver, the screen blinked on and off a few times, then I immediately got a message say that the “Driver has stopped responding” and that Catalyst had reset the driver. About every 5th or so time it resets, it loses sync with my monitor completely, forcing a reboot. This continued about every 5 minutes or so. I tried everything to make it stop. Finally I resolved to reload my system.[/color]



[color=#000000]The next day, I reformatted and patched everything up, loaded the latest VIA drivers, and installed the Radeon drivers. Same thing. After a bit of googling, I found the Omega site and tried those drivers (after uninstalling the Radeon drivers). This seemed to lessen the problem, but didn’t fix it. That is to say, it happens less frequently.[/color]


[color=#000000]I tried lower my AGP to 4x and turning off fast writes.[/color]

[color=#000000]This only seems to happen when I’m at my desktop. It seems to work fine when running 3d games.[/color]



[color=#000000]I’m at my wits end and I don’t know where else to post this.[/color]



[color=#000000]Cliffs:[/color]

[color=#000000]New Radeon x850 pro crashes a lot[/color]

[color=#000000]Reloaded system[/color]

[color=#000000]Tried latest Radeon and Omega drivers[/color]

[color=#000000]Installed latest VIA drivers[/color]

[color=#000000]Turned off “Fast Write” and turned AGP down to 4x[/color]

[color=#000000]Only happens on 2d desktop[/color]

[color=#000000]Yes, I plugged up the power cable [/color]



[color=#000000]Hardware:[/color]

[color=#000000]System Board: Soyo K7VMP2[/color]

[color=#000000]Processor: 2800+[/color]

[color=#000000]Ram: 1GB[/color]

[color=#000000]Video: ATI Radeon x850 pro/ 256mb/ AGP[/color]

[color=#000000]OS: Windows XP / SP2 – fully patched[/color]

[color=#000000]PS: 450w[/color]

[color=#000000]Other: Good airflow in case[/color]

[color=#000000]Hope someone can help. Thanks in advance.[/color]

NezziR

BTW - these leave no entry in the Event Viewer logs.

FnF

Edit, anyone? There is no need to rekick ur post...

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swimtech

Are you doing dual display with the built in graphics in your chipset? Have you toggled the on-board graphics off in your bios - you may be having some sort of conflict with that...

Did you thoroughly remove remove the previous Nvidia driver?

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The_Neon_Cowboy

what power supply are you useing? what brand/model/rail rateings from the label plz

If there a power connecter on the video card make sure thats its plugged in.

Try reseating your video card...

" VIA KM400" ek! could be an issue with your mother board or bios

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wiskerbizkit

Did you install the WDM drivers also?