ATI drivers help

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"David Kehler" <dkehler33REMOVE@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> For some reason, no drivers after the 4.3 release seem to work for me.
> On any of the drivers later than those, I get seemingly random system
> lockups and/or Windows resets the graphics to standard VGA and I have
> to do a system restore to get back to a working system.
>
> I have a Radeon 9600 Pro, and I'm wondering if the problem might be
> that the newer drivers are taxing it just enough to require upping the
> AGP voltage, but the problem is my motherboard (Soyo K7VMP2) does not
> allow me to adjust the AGP voltage.
>
> The good news is that under the 4.3 drivers, my system seems to be
> rock stable. But my concern is that at some point, I'm going to need
> to update the drivers in order to run a game or something.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas that don't require me getting a new
> motherboard? And yes, I've tried running Driver Cleaner before
> installing new drivers.
>
> David

A few basics to try first - disable fast-writes in mobo bios if your
using that. Next - if youre using 8x AGP knock it down to 4x as
many mobo/graphics card combinations are unstable at 8x and
there is no performance differance anyway. Lastly disable
VPU recovery as this often causes instability too.

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On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 06:51:14 GMT, "Sleepy"
<nospamthanksbpespley@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"David Kehler" <dkehler33REMOVE@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>> For some reason, no drivers after the 4.3 release seem to work for me.
>> On any of the drivers later than those, I get seemingly random system
>> lockups and/or Windows resets the graphics to standard VGA and I have
>> to do a system restore to get back to a working system.
>>
>> I have a Radeon 9600 Pro, and I'm wondering if the problem might be
>> that the newer drivers are taxing it just enough to require upping the
>> AGP voltage, but the problem is my motherboard (Soyo K7VMP2) does not
>> allow me to adjust the AGP voltage.
>>
>> The good news is that under the 4.3 drivers, my system seems to be
>> rock stable. But my concern is that at some point, I'm going to need
>> to update the drivers in order to run a game or something.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas that don't require me getting a new
>> motherboard? And yes, I've tried running Driver Cleaner before
>> installing new drivers.
>>
>> David
>
>A few basics to try first - disable fast-writes in mobo bios if your
>using that. Next - if youre using 8x AGP knock it down to 4x as
>many mobo/graphics card combinations are unstable at 8x and
>there is no performance differance anyway. Lastly disable
>VPU recovery as this often causes instability too.
>

Thanks for the suggestions. The only one I'm not 100% certain I've
tried is knocking down the AGP to 4x, but again, the 4.3 drivers are
rock solid at 8x AGP. It's pretty mysterious.

David

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"Sleepy" <nospamthanksbpespley@blueyonder.co.uk> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D:CLrBd.521$GG1.34@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
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Lastly disable
> VPU recovery as this often causes instability too.
>

Where can you disable the VPU recovery? TIA.

Yili